Hetoimasia
Sign in to savethumb|250px|The empty throne with cushion, crux gemmata and cloth, flanked by Saints Peter and Paul. [[Arian Baptistery, Ravenna, early 6th century.]]
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- The empty throne in pre-Christian art
- Christian art
- Meaning of the image
- Early examples
- Later use
- Scriptural references
- Terminology
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thumb|250px|The empty throne with cushion, crux gemmata and cloth, flanked by Saints Peter and Paul. [[Arian Baptistery, Ravenna, early 6th century.]]
The Hetoimasia, Etimasia (Greek ἑτοιμασία, "preparation"), prepared throne, Preparation of the Throne, ready throne or Throne of the Second Coming is the Christian version of the symbolic subject of the empty throne found in the art of the ancient world, whose meaning has changed over the centuries. In Ancient Greece, it represented Zeus, chief of the gods, and in early Buddhist art it represented the Buddha. In Early Christian art and Early Medieval art, it is found in both the East and Western churches, and represents either Christ, or sometimes God the Father as part of the Trinity. In the Middle Byzantine period, from about 1000, it came to represent more specifically the throne prepared for the Second Coming of Christ, a meaning it has retained in Eastern Orthodox art to the present.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hetoimasia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.