Russian IconsA sacred Tradition which inspired Modernism

Early Russia (Kievan Rus’) and Byzantine Empire IX-XI c.

V. Vasnetsov, Baptism of Rus, oil on canvas, 1885-1896, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Princess Olga (ca.920-969)and Prince Vladimir (ca.960-1015)

F. Briullov, St Olga and St Vladimir. Mosaic. 1863-1868.

Saint Issac’s Cathedral, St Petersburg

Icon in production

Side margin(pole)

Strut(shponka)Painted stripe (luzga)

Hollowed centralarea of recess

(kovcheg)

The Holy Face

“Not made by Hands”

(Spas Nerukotvornyi).

XII c., Novgorod, Russia

Veil of Veronica and Holy Face

Rogier van der Weyden, Crucifixion Tryptich, detail. 1445 ca.

St Luke Apostol and Evangelist paints the first icon-image of the Holy Mother of God (Pervoobraznaia icona Presviatoi Bogoroditsi).Pskov, XVI c.

Mother of God Hodegetria(Odigitria),XV-XVI c.

Our Lady of the Sign,(Oranta),1114 ca.

Vladimir Mother of God, early XII c, Byzantium.(Mother of God Eleousa or Umilenie – Our Lady of Tenderness)

Vladimir Mother of God, early XII c, Byzantium.(Mother of God Eleousa or Umilenie – Our Lady of Tenderness)

Fedorovskaia Mother of God

Theophanes the Greek,Donskaia Mother of God

Variations of Eleousa’s type

Church of St Nicolas in Tolmachi

Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna

Apse mosaic. St Vitale, VI c.Christ the Good Shepard. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia. V c.

St George (Georgii Pobedonosets). Ca.1040s. Assumption Cathedral, Moscow.

Aleksa Petrov. St Nicholas the Wonder-worker with Selected Saints(Nikolai Ugodnik so sviatimi). Novgorod, 1294

The Grand Prince Ivan III (reign 1462-1505)

miniature XVII c.

Map of Moscow , 1556

First Russian Patriarch Iov

(Years in power: January 1589 – June 1605)

Trinity Monastery (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra). Founded in 1337. Sergiev Posad

Solovetskii Monastery. Founded in 1420-1430.Solovetskii Island.

Ipatievskii Monastery. Founded in 1330s.Kostroma

Andronikov Monastery. Founded in 1357.Moscow

Sergii Radonezhskii

(1314-1392)

Russian Saints of XIV-XV cc. Hesychasm (исихазм)

Nil Sorskii

(1433-1508)

Zosima and Savvatii

Byzantine templon and High Russian iconostasis

XI c XV c

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Russian high iconostasis, XV – XVI c

I - Local tier

II- Feasts

III-

IV - Prophets

V- Patriarchs

I - Местный чин

II -

III - Деисус

IV - Пророки

V - Праотцы

Deesis

Праздники

Andrei Rublev, Daniil Chernyi and studio, Iconostasis. 1425-1427.Trinity Cathedral. Trinity-Segious Monastery

Novgorod School, Paternity (Otechestvo), ca. 1420

Signed icons

Alexa Petrov, St Nicolas, 1294

Master Mikhail, Christ Enthroned, 1337 Dionisii, Christ in in Majesty,

1500

Nazarii Istomin, Mother of God Petrovskaia, 1614 ca.

The Old Testament Trinity, ca. 1420

Andrei Rublev, Old Testament Trinity, ca. 1411.

Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich Romanov (1629-1676)

Unknown Russian artist, early 1680s

Andrei Rublev, Old Testament Trinity, ca. 1411

Simon Ushakov, Old Testament Trinity,

1671

Vladimir Borovikovskii (1757-1825)

Revival of the one-tier iconostasis

Iconostasis (1880s), St Cyril Church, XII c., Kiev

Iconostasis of the Church of Saviour Not Made By Hands,

Abramtsevo, 1881

Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910), Mother of God Enthroned, 1885 St Cyril Church (Kirillovskaia), Kiev

Emilia Prakhova

Modernist icons

Natalia Goncharova, The Virgin with the Child, 1911

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, The Virgin of Tenderness

of Angry Hearts (Umilenie Zlykh Serdets),1914-1915Vasilii Kandinskii,

The Virgin and the Child, 1917

Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953), founder of Constructivist movement

Sailor, 1911Nude, 1913

Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)

Chiropodist at the Baths, 1911-1912

Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)

Chiropodist at the Baths, 1911-1912

Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10. 1915Suprematism

Suprematism

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Congregation of Mother of God’s Icons

(Sobor Bogorodichikh ikon),

1800 ca.

Собор Богородичьих Икон