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Pantocrator|pænˈtɒkrətə(r)|
Also Pantokrator.
[ad. Gr. παντοκράτωρ almighty.]
With reference to God or Christ: the Almighty, all-ruler; hence, an artistic representation of the figure of Christ, esp. as a characteristic form in Byzantine art.
1871Ruskin Fors Clav. xii. 11 In the Apocalypse it is ‘Lord, All governing’—Pantocrator—which we weakly translate ‘Almighty’. 1911O. M. Dalton Byzantine Art & Archaeol. xii. 672 In the Last Judgement, and as the Pantokrator, Christ is bearded, because in his function as Judge he is regarded as merely continuing his earthly mission. 1931Antiquity V. 508 With the exception of the Pantocrator in the dome..the Daphni mosaics belong to the pictorial, representational, Hellenic tradition. 1947C. Stewart Byzantine Legacy v. 111 The condition of the Church of Christ Pantocrator is typical of many. 1950A. Huxley Themes & Variations 174 Young Domenikos received a sound Greek education and studied painting... That indecently human personage—was that supposed to be the Pantocrator? 1962New Statesman 25 May 768/3 It [sc. a cathedral tapestry] fails to achieve the commanding presence of a Byzantine pantocrator. 1963D. T. Rice Art of Byzantine Era 88 In Basil's church the bust of Christ Pantocrator dominated the building from the dome. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 182/1 The Iconoclastic crisis..culminated in the formation of a new religious iconography... It was then that the decorative scheme of the Byzantine church was fixed..: in the dome the Pantocrator (Christ the Ruler) surrounded by archangels. 1974D. Yarwood Archit. Europe iii. 110/2 The mosaics and frescoes..of the dome..illustrate the Christ Pantocrator in all His Glory.
Hence pantoˈcratic a. rare.
1949Auden Under Sirius in Horizon Oct. 210 And out of the open sky The pantocratic riddle breaks;—‘Who are you and why?’ |