The Icons of Military Saints in Rus’. An Attempt at Classifying Iconographic Types from before the Beginning of the 17th Century

• Authors: Zielińska, Paulina

Abstracts

EN

Depictions of military martyrs were among the most popular subjects in icon painting in Rus’. Between the 11th and the 17th century local workshops adopted canonical Byzantine models and gradually developed and changed them depending on local factors and conditions. The present article attempts to classify the most common iconographic types and to describe the dynamic of the changes in the iconographic canon on the basis of a  qualitative and quantitative analysis of extant and known works.

Keywords

EN

Russian art; Orthodox art; Warrior saints; Orthodox iconography; St. George; St. Demetrius

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ikonotheka
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 27
• Pages: 55-70

Dates

published

2018-08-06

Contributors

author

Zielińska, Paulina

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0012.2316