“Antique icons” in the collection of the Intercession Old Believers’ Church in Serpukhov
The article is devoted to an overview to the monuments of the 19th — early 20th centuries from the collection of the Old Believers’ Intercession Church in Serpukhov. Along with the ancient icons this collection also includes quite numerous of late works,
Ivan A. Volkov
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Aleksandr Ivanov and Nikolai Gogol': the image and the word in the Russian tradition of art as prophecy [PDF]
The Russian image of the artist as a prophet is generally regarded as a verbal construct, developed through literary tradition. The paper introduces a new perspective: the role of the visual arts.
Davidson, P
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Коллекция культовой деревянной скульптуры в Моршанском историко-художественном музее
Музеи, имеющие почтенный вековой возраст, нередко хранят массу тайн и загадок в недрах своих фондов. За годы столетнего существования Моршанский историкохудожественный музей имени П.П.
Филиппова, Ольга Николаевна
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Establishing the Authorship of Two Wooden Icons From the Museikon Collection, Alba Iulia
This study sought to obtain information regarding the authorship of two old wooden icons from the “Museikon” collection, a museum dedicated to icons located in the historical city of Alba Iulia. The stylistic and theological analyses indicated a possible author; to support this hypothesis, nondestructive physicochemical investigations were carried out,
Olivia Florena Nemeș +8 more
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PLAFOND PAINTING IN THE CHAPEL OF THE CATHERINE PALACE, TSARSKOYE SELO
The Chapel of the Resurrection of Christ is an example of the mid-18th century baroque church combining two traditions – Western European and Russian, which is manifest in the decor of the church interiors, plots and stylistics of religious painting. The
Korshunova Natalya G.
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Evoking Eternity: Orthodox Co‐Presence in Post‐Yugoslav Central Serbia
ABSTRACT This article approaches the idea of eternity ethnographically. Specifically it turns to post‐Yugoslav central Serbia and the version of eternity (večnost) evoked by practicing Orthodox Christians in their daily lives. In this context, the eternal does not imply the everlastingness of persons and things in this life, or an inevitable cyclical ...
NICHOLAS LACKENBY
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Recovering Valuable Artifacts of the Cultural Heritage through Modern Technology and Equipment
This paper presents the digital reconstruction of the carving of the iconostasis of the Assumption church in the town of Bansko in its original form, a research project of the Department of Mathematical Linguistics of the Institute of Mathematics and ...
Lilia Pavlova, Lubomil Draganov
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Caspar Luyken’s illustrated bible among the Serbs and Bulgarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries [PDF]
The engraving of the Finding of Moses from Caspar Luyken’s Amsterdam (1694) and Nuremberg (1708) bibles served as a model for Teodor Kračun’s painting for the small iconostasis of the Orthodox cathedral in Sremski Karlovci (1780), for the Viennese ...
Stošić Ljiljana
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Contributions to the study of the images of hierarchs in the catholicon of Studenica Monastery [PDF]
The paper is devoted to selected images of the saint hierarchs in the Church of the Virgin in Studenica Monastery. The attention is first of all focused on the figures of four bishops who were partially covered by the high iconostasis from the ...
Živković Miloš
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