Summary This article considers questions of materials and materiality in the context of the very large Byzantine mosaic of the Archangel Gabriel in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. It looks at the ways in which the materials of mosaics affected and affect the appearance of the image, and discusses how this sits with Byzantine conceptions of angels as both embodied and disembodied beings.

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拜占庭的重要事项。君士坦丁堡圣索非亚大教堂的大天使加百列

结束语本文考虑了伊斯坦布尔圣索菲亚大教堂大天使加百列的拜占庭式马赛克的材质和材料问题。它着眼于马赛克材料影响和影响图像外观的方式，并讨论了这与拜占庭关于体现的和不存在的存在的天使的观念如何相处。