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The pictorial means of expression

23 января 2011 — Church of the Assumption at Volotovo polye

The examination and study of early Russian paintings are usually confined to an analysis of their iconographic peculiarities and pictorial techniques.

Painting in architecture

23 января 2011 — Church of the Assumption at Volotovo polye

In our time we are used to looking at a picture without much regard for its position in space. An easel painting can easily change the place, its position is not an essential part of its entity. However, this approach to mural painting, especially in early Russian works, will not allow us to see its full and real significance.

Iconographic tradition

23 января 2011 — Church of the Assumption at Volotovo polye

Such monuments as the Volotovo frescoes cannot be understood apart from the iconographic tradition, which in the countries of the East, Rus in particular, was held sacred.

History of the monument and its study. The Volotovo master.

23 января 2011 — Church of the Assumption at Volotovo polye

According to Novgorod chronicles, the Church of the Assumption was built in 1352 by Archbishop Moses in the monastery situated at Volotovo Polye, five verstas (about three miles) east of Novgorod.

Volotovo murals as they could be viewed by contemporaries

23 января 2011 — Church of the Assumption at Volotovo polye

We have no written sources which could tell us how the contemporaries of the Volotovo murals responded to painting. But, undoubtedly, there were people among them whose approach to it was very profound.

Painting of M.K. Ciurlionis

17 октября 2010 — Moscow culture and art

Milealojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875—1911), the Lithuanian composer, a graduate from the Warsaw and Leipzig conservatoires, the author of symphonic, chamber and choral music, began to study painting intensively in the late twenties of his age and devoted the largest part of his energies to this sphere of creation, in six years.

Russian drawing art exhibition

Russian drawing art exhibition

6 сентября 2010 — Moscow culture and art

Drawing is an essential component in any pictorial and plastic idiom.

Facettenpalast des Moskauer Kremls

27 августа 2010 — Moscow culture and art

I m Zentrum des Moskauer Kremls, auf dem Kathedral-Platz, befindet sich der Facettenpalast, das älteste Denkmal der Moskauer Profanarchitektur.

Le Palais à Facettes du Kremlin de Moscou

27 августа 2010 — Moscow culture and art

Au centre du Kremlin de Moscou, sur la place des Cathédrales, se trouve le Palais à Facettes, l’un des plus anciens monuments de l’architecture civile de Moscou.

The Faceted Chamber in the Moscow Kremlin

27 августа 2010 — Moscow culture and art

In the very center of the Moscow Kremlin, in Cathedral Square, there stands the oldest surviving monument of the secular architecture of Moscow—the Faceted Chamber.