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Образ апостола: между апокрифом и иконографией
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Saltykova V., Визуальная теология 2026 Т. 8 № 1 С. 53–77
The article is devoted to a critical analysis of a little-known article by the French art historian Louis Réau (1881–1961), who was a recognized expert on the art of France and the author of a fundamental handbook on Christian iconography. He was also the first director of the French Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia (1911–1913). ...
Added: June 23, 2026
Абейсекера С. Х., Обсерватория культуры 2026 Т. 23 № 2 С. 176–188
This article explores the iconography and artis tic features of the monumental paintings of Sigiriya, a Sri Lankan architectural and landscape monument, mean ing “lion rock” in Sinhalese. On the fl at summit of a rock plateau, rising almost 200 meters above the surround ing plain in the very center of the island, in the ...
Added: June 12, 2026
Кузнецова-Павловская Н. А., Искусствознание 2025 С. 94–119
В статье рассматриваются роль и функции персонификаций в искусстве Южной Италии XI–XII веков на примере анализа двух наиболее распространенных образов — Церкви и Земли. Авторы изображений не только стабильно использовали уже традиционные для Западной Европы персонификации в качестве важного элемента изобразительных схем, но и вводили фигуры этого типа в принципиально новые контексты. В статье предлагается ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Saltykova V., Актуальные проблемы теории и истории искусства 2025 Т. 15 С. 324–334
The article examines a number of illustrated manuscripts and tapestries depicting the history of Alexander the Great, commissioned by the Burgundian dukes, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold. The author analyzes the iconographic features of the images depicting Alexander in close relation to the textual sources, such as ‘Facts and Conquests of Alexander’ by ...
Added: March 6, 2026
Shulyakov L., Вестник древней истории 2025 Т. 85 № 4 С. 881–914
The idea that God cannot be depicted is one of the important features of biblical monotheism, which has influenced the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, the Bible and biblical archaeology do not provide a clear answer to the question of when the prohibition of any images of deities was finally established in ...
Added: November 5, 2025
Nepryakhin I., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2025 Т. 16 № 2(148)
В период активного развития проповеди в восточнославянских землях Речи Посполитой большую популярность получил жанр учительных Евангелий, включавших в свой состав новые религиозные сюжеты. В одной из редакций учительного Евангелия сохранился рассказ о пророчестве сивиллы Тибуртины римскому императору Октавиану Августу о рождении Христа. В статье показаны особенности бытования рассказов о сивиллах в православной книжности в XVI—XVII ...
Added: June 25, 2025
Lurie Z., Hypothekai 2024 № 8 С. 89–109
The article examines the visual embodiment of the theme of Christ's teaching in the European visual tradition. The author shows that the pedagogical metaphors of the Teacher and the Educator, vivid in the New Testament texts and the works of the first Christian writers, were reflected in the fine arts through certain iconographic formulas. An ...
Added: March 21, 2024
Braginskaya N., В кн.: Cultures, Epochs, Ideas, Styles. A Festschrift for Aza Takho-Godi's 100th Birthday.: Берлин: Peter Lang, 2023. С. 53–84.
Added: March 20, 2024
Grishchenko A., В кн.: «Последние времена» в славянской и еврейской культурной традиции.: М.: Научно-гуманитарный центр «Сэфер», 2023. С. 85–123.
The paper reviews the manuscript tradition of three Hebraisms from the Early East Slavic literature, as following: Mašliakh occurred in the Palaea Interpretata (that was connected to earlier Mašika / Mašiaak from the Addresses to a Jew on the Incarnation of the Son of God of the Miscellany from the 13th century, i.e., resp. Hebrew Māšîaḥ ...
Added: January 11, 2024
Хуан Сота, Vox Medii Aevi 2021 № 2(9) С. 192–212
In three tales of Alfonso X’s ‘Cantigas de Santa María’ we find heavenly knights who were sent by God or the Virgin to protect faithful Christians. In two of the songs (Cantiga Nº 15 and 165), as well as in the miniatures of the manuscripts, these knights are clad in white. The article studies the ...
Added: September 12, 2022
Дувакин Е. Н., Nurullin R., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2022 Т. 26 № 1 С. 353–375
This article examines ancient Mesopotamian sources, both written and iconographical, that deal with the figures the Babylonians saw in the face of the Moon. It is argued that, contrary to a widely held opinion, the drawing of the moon on a Seleucid tablet from Uruk (VAT 7851) does not depict a dragon or a mythical ...
Added: June 24, 2022
Zinchenko S., В кн.: Поверив алгеброй гармонию: сборник статей памяти Якова Абрамовича Шера.: Институт истории материальной культуры РАН, 2021. С. 261–274.
The image of a bull — an important invariative semantic element — is analyzed on the
basis of Neolithic materials of Western Asia, where it is represented in the form of so-called bucrania.
Various possible functions of bucrania were considered in detail in scientific literature. In the
present article the author pays special attention to analyzing the hypothesis ...
Added: May 4, 2022
Vinogradov A., , in: L'éloquence du visage entre Orient et Occident.: Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022. P. 37–55.
Added: April 15, 2022
Litvina A., Uspenskij F., В кн.: Сборник статей и публикаций посвященный Андрею Алексеевичу Булычеву. На 60-летие со дня рождения и 35-летие начала научной деятельности.: М.: Древлехранилище, 2020. С. 145–153.
Статья посвящена истории вкладов княжеских семей Татевых и Ногтевых. ...
Added: August 14, 2021
Vinogradov A., Новое литературное обозрение 2021 № 2 (168) С. 100–112
The paper discusses the iconography of the “Virgin of intercession” in donors scenes in the Eastern Christian world. The icon of the Virgin-Hagiosoritissa venerated in Constantinople, with the arms stretched out in a gesture of prayer, was often reproduced in the fine arts, on seals and coins, but also included in donors portraits. The authors ...
Added: December 8, 2020
Антонов Д. И., Башарин П. В., Виноградова Л. Н. et al., РГГУ, 2019.
In the almanac "In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System," the works devoted to "lower" deities and demons are presented. The concept of invisible tempters, pests, and disease agents plays a vital role in different cultures. With their help, many disasters and cataclysms are explained, from personal to global. In traditional societies, spirits are perceived ...
Added: October 29, 2020
Saltykova V., Российский журнал истории Церкви, Россия 2020 Т. 1 № 3 С. 46–66
This article deals with miniatures of the Gospel from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, dated 1684. The author analyzes the iconography of the compositions, identifies the sources used as models for the masters who decorated the book, and also examines the circumstances associated with the order of the manuscript. The text touches on ...
Added: October 26, 2020
Pozhidaeva A., Казус. Индивидуальное и уникальное в истории 2020 № 15 С. 34–41
The article represents a short comment to the S.A. Zinchenko’s research about the genesis of an ichtyomorphic syren’s image in the Hellenistic art. Our comment refers to the medieval images of syrens and christian text sources, that affected the build of syren-fish image in West European Middle Ages, and to this image’s possible connection to ...
Added: October 14, 2020
Vinogradov A., Библия и христианская древность 2020 № 2 (6) С. 34–65
В заключительной части публикации апокрифических «Деяний Иоанна» даётся перевод
второй половины сохранившегося греческого текста актов (гл. 37–115). Перевод снабжён
комментарием и указанием на важнейшие разночтения в рукописях. Им предпослана
богословская характеристика текста. ...
Added: July 17, 2020
“Цръковь ледѧна, а олтарь огнень”: к вопросу об источниках «Сказания Анфилога царя о святой литургии
Daria G., В кн.: Colloquia Russica. Series I. Vol 5. Rus’ and Central Europe from the 11th to the 14th Century.Т. 5.: [б.и.], 2015. С. 79–88.
This study is an attempt to interpret the riddle „The altar is full of fire and the church is made of ice; the altar will go out and the church will melt”, which was found among the 11th–12th centuries graffiti in St. Sophia in Kiev. The focus of the analysis is the structure of the ...
Added: April 23, 2020
Vinogradov A., Библия и христианская древность 2020 № 1 (5) С. 63–94
For the first time are publishing in Russian a full translation of the «Acts of
John», one of the oldest Christian apocryphal works (2nd century). The following texts have been
translated: fragments from the «Epistle about Virginity» of Pseudo-Titus, from POxyr. 850, from
«Liber Flavus Fergusiorum» and the surviving Greek part of the Acts. Translations are provided
with commentary ...
Added: April 17, 2020
Moroz A., В кн.: Вещь-символ-знак в славянской и еврейской культурной традиции.: [б.и.], 2019. С. 246–263.
The article presents the author’s observations on the relatively little-known practice of ritual and magical protection of the house left by its owners, from unwanted visitors, thieves, fire, etc. In the middle of a house manuscripts of prayers or texts of other genres that are related to prayers, apparently, from thieves are being left. These ...
Added: January 15, 2020