The style of some Russian icons of the 14th–15th centuries has distinctive features, close analogies to which can be found in the icon painting of Northern Greece. They include, among others, a pale turquoise background combined with a dark green or bright red frame placed on the bevel of a board, a cold rendering of…
The grant obtained from the National Science Centre (NCN) for the years 2023-2027 (OPUS 23 nr 2022/45/B/HS2/01852; Head: prof. dr hab. M. P. Kruk) made it possible to undertake research on the oldest group of icons in the collection of the National Museum in Przemyśl. These are works dating from the 15th to the 16th…
The earliest hagiographic icon of Saint George is a wooden relief icon (late 11th – early 12th c.), held in the collection of the National Art Museum of Ukraine. It was in the 11th century that depictions of hagiographic scenes from the Georgios cycle began to develop actively, which is why particular attention is paid…
The Bachkovo Monastery of the Virgin Petritsiotissa near Plovdiv (Philippoupolis), was founded in 1083 by Gregory Pakourianos, megas domestikos of the West, and remains one of the most important monasteries. Today, only a few icons from this monastery, dating from the Byzantine and early Post-Byzantine periods (14th to 16th century), have been preserved. Their limited…
Die Wiener Genesis, die vermutlich für Kaiser Justinian anläßlich der Neuweihe der Hagia Sophia 562 angefertigt wurde und in einer spezifischen Text-Bild-Auswahl tatsächlich vollständig erhalten ist, schildert die Gottesführung und Völkergeschichte Abrahams, Isaak und Jakobs (Dn 3,15) und ihrer Frauen und Kinder als Erben der Schöpfung. In verborgener Allegorese eröffnen die Miniaturen in Realien wie…