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JURIS VASILJEVS AND RESEARCH OF THE SACRED ARCHITECTURE IN LATVIA (Juris Vasiljevs un Latvijas sakralas arhitekturas izpete)

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Dirveiks I.
Materiali Latvijas makslas vesturei
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2008
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vol. 7
155-177
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The architect Juris Vasiljevs (Yury Vasilyev, 1928-1993) is one of the most renowned specialists of sacred architecture history in Latvia in the second half of the 20th century. Research in the history of architecture is Vasiljevs' central vocation materialised in several dozens of scientific publications and two monographs. This contribution was made possible by the researcher's versatile personality that allowed solving general art-historical questions from the widest variety of aspects and differently from other opinions. The history of theories, hypotheses and conclusions related to research of the sacred architecture in Latvia is rich in successes, surprises and errors. Theoretical schemes devised by historians of art and architecture are in fact completely dependant upon the basic information - the primary source of written evidence and the object itself. It is known that archival records on the oldest monuments are very limited. So a major part of work concerns searches for influences and analogies, assessing the formal traits and the overall background of historical events. Many publications testify to respectable results. Still we should not forget that theories are based on a very flimsy ground - the idea of the architectural object itself. Research of sacred architecture faces objective difficulties conditioned by the specificity of churches. Detailed inspection of the building is largely possible only during major repairs and reconstruction works. These are rarely carried out in churches in comparison with, for instance, dwelling houses. Many generalisations and hypotheses are made after approximate visual inspection whose quality is directly dependant upon the researcher's experience, skill, responsibility and honesty. Incomplete basic information can generate a chain of further misunderstandings and errors. But there are several authors whose work in the phase of initial research has stood the test of time. One of the most prominent figures in the 2nd half of the 20th century is the architect Juris Vasiljevs. Vasiljevs' contribution to the history of Latvian art and architecture is considered several times. He maintained that high-quality research is possible only on the basis of a complex study.
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JURIS VASILJEVS AND RIGA: SUBJECTIVELY SELECTED SKETCHES (Juris Vasiljevs un Riga: subjektivi atlasitas skices)

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Dekante H.
Materiali Latvijas makslas vesturei
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2004
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vol. 4
151-162
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The architect and architecture historian Juris Vasiljevs (1928-1993) stands out as one of the most prominent explorers and champions of Riga architectural heritage what was the key subject of his enthusiastic research and teaching practice. Vasiljevs' daughter, architect Helena Dekante reiterates her father's creative biography from his first arrival in Riga at the age of 16 in 1944 to his last articles in the early 1990s. Illustrated by extensive quotations from Vasiljevs' Riga-related publications and the author's own memory episodes, these 'subjectively selected sketches' vividly recreate the life-long relationship of the scholar to his city as a story of particular love, professional concern and devotion. Living in Old Riga, Juris could not accept the violent post-war deconstruction of the damaged buildings, and at his graduation from the Faculty of Architecture of the Latvian University in 1951, he dared to plan the destroyed steeple of the St. Peter's Church as reconstructed in his graduation project of the Republican Library. The dissertation on Neoclassicism in Riga architecture of the late 18th and early 19th centuries (1955) was followed by a comprehensive monograph on the same subject (1961, in Russian) that remains the basic treatise about this period in the architecture of Latvia. The work on the guide 'Riga. Architectural Monuments' (1971, in Russian) was an opportunity to pay particular attention to Old Riga, 'the unique, magnificent pearl of the Baltics', as he praised it in the introduction. Vasiljevs co-authored the album 'The Dom Cathedral Architectural Ensemble in Riga' (Leningrad, 1981, German, Spanish, French and English editions) and contributed to several dictionaries. In the 1980s his special concern was the Latvian section of the reference guide to Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the series 'Artistic Heritage of the USSR' (1986, In Russian). Vasiljevs' last studies showed a growing scholarly interest in figural reliefs as meaningful memorial marks in the transition period from the late medieval Riga to that of the modem times.
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