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The comparative analysis that we propound focuses on one of the five orations to the Great Feasts, namely Oration on Easter, written in 385 by Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, the latter beeing the second one with the same title and the last of his sermons preached in Arianz, and also Anastasis’s iconography.
The scene is based upon Saint Peter’s epistle that describes what happened after the resurrection when Jesus went and preached the Gospel to the spirits that were in prison, thus givin freedom to our parents, Adam and Eve, alongside the just ones of the Old Testament. As a source of inspiration for the scene, we can also mention the gospel of Nicodemus.
As a conclusion to this parallel drawn between Saint Gregory, the God Preacher’s sermon on the Holy Easter and the icon of Anastasis also known as Christ’s descent into hell, we significantly remember the fact that the main source of inspiration for both literary theological and also iconographic creation is the Holy Bible.
The allegoric, expository, inherent, philosophical, theological connotation of the Sermon is beeing put across the symbolic and transformed light of the icon of Anastasis, both of them confessing and preaching Christs’s Resurrection.
Keywords: Oration on the Easter, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, Anastasis’s iconography, Post Byzantine icons, Christ’s Resurrection, Christ’s descent into hell.
