Summary
The paper aims to accommodate in the academic discourse, within the theory of response, ineffable concepts of exterioriation of the Liturgy through brickwork ornaments used at the apse as material sign of inner vision / prayer. These concepts of visual screening are at the very centre of the Byzantine altars. The analysis of churches built at the very end of 13th and the beginning of the 14th-century in Ohrid helps to assemble a cohesive group of churches where brick was used as main building material in the same time as in Constantinople and other building centers of Byzantium. The reception of the Constantinopolitan model was given a symbolic meaning. In this sense, brickwork models were translated form Constantinople to the architecture of Ohrid, what especially can be shown on the example of the apse of the Holy Mother of God Perivleptos Church. As a specific wall-membrane made of brickwork cloisonné, the east facade of the Perivleptos church in Ohrid reveals on its exterior surface made of brick the hidden mystery performed beyond the altar.
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