The corpus of Russian illuminated manuscripts of the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus comprises several dozen codices. The first attempt to create Slavic imagery for the Ladder was undertaken either in the city of Tarnovo or at the Bulgarian Athonite monastery of Zographou in the mid-14th century. The result, exemplified by the Ladder of Pogodin…
After the Turkish conquest of Belgrade, on August 1521, the whole Serbian citizenship was displaced to Istanbul and its vicinity and took with them the greatest treasures of his church. It is the mosaic icon of the Virgin with Child, which is kept today at the Patriarchal church of Saint George on Phanar, in the…
The stairstep motif, depicted in art, was often shown in urban, exterior, and residential spaces. It represented an architectural or furniture element, raising a sitting or standing figure. This pictorial fragment was also characteristic of many European religious works in general. The aim of the study is to highlight the place and role of this…
Zanfurnari is known, if at all, for one painting at the Vatican’s Room of the Icons. His Life is largely unknown, today hanging in a Croatian Roman Catholic church, originally the Venetian-Baroque cathedral of Saint Euphemia, in Rovigno/Rovinj, Istria, once part of Venice’s Stato da Mar. This maritime empire, initial product of Fourth Crusade conquest,…