纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 067正信凯旋圣像（8）（在线收听）

What the viewer around 1400 might not have realised is that some of these saints and martyrs were not even born in 843. The icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy shows a whole society revisiting its past through a work of art, begging God to secure its future. It is, I think, a powerful and poignant image. Here's the artist Bill Viola again:

"It is an extraordinary and innovative picture, which represents a really ingenious way of uniting the temporal world of the past, present, future, with the eternal and the divine. When I look at it, I feel it's almost a post-modern-like image - using the idea of the frame within the frame, there are icons within the icons, images within the image."

1400年的观众可能会忽略的是，图上的某些圣人或殉道者在八四三年尚未出生。正信凯旋圣像表现的是整个社会通过一件艺术作品回顾历史、祈求上帝佑护其未来的状况。这幅画像充满力量，动人心弦。艺术家比尔·维欧拉认为：

这是一幅非同寻常、极具创意的画，是别出心裁地将现世的过去、未来、当下与永恒及神圣相连接的方式。我认为它几乎可算是后现代风格，采用了框架层叠的概念。圣像中有圣像，图像中有图像。