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Старый Борисоглебский собор в Старице как образ Храма Гроба Господня. К вопросу о применимости иконографического метода в истории архитектуры
С. 121–124.
Old Borisoglebsky Cathedral in Staritsa, built in 1558-1561 and disassembled in 1802-1804 is one of the most mysterious buildings of the era of Ivan the Terrible. The author offers a hypothesis that the unusual image of this temple is due to the desire of a high-ranking customer to reproduce the Jerusalem Temple of the Holy Sepulcher as it looked after the reconstruction in 1555.
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
Zinchenko S., В кн.: Прекрасное и утилитарное на Востоке. От докерамического неолита до искусства ислама.: М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2024. Гл. 2 С. 63–85.
The theme of the microcosm in the art of the Ancient East is taken up in the chapter written by S. A. Zinchenko, who devoted the study to the images of monster-like creatures, which constitute a rather interesting corpus of monuments of art in West Asia during the pre-Ceramic Neolithic period. interesting corpus of monuments of art ...
Added: November 20, 2024
Большаков В. А., Дандамаева З. Э., Дубровская Д. В. et al., М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2024.
It would seem that beauty and utility are connected only conditionally: the beautiful must have a use
must have a use, and it is only material culture that gives this ephemeral connection a more practical meaning.
this ephemeral connection with a more practical meaning. Before aesthetics
was entitled to self-sufficiency, the existence of art objects was almost exclusively ...
Added: November 20, 2024
Pozhidaeva A., Мирошник А. Д., Milan: Milano University Press, 2023.
The history of illustration of Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 14th–15th centuries rarely attracts the attention of researchers. Nevertheless, a careful analysis of the manuscripts would make it possible to clarify the process of the emergence of separate iconographic schemes within the framework of a very specific task: illustrating a text replete with literary devices ...
Added: September 1, 2024
Markina E., Westenholz A., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2024 Vol. 144 No. 2 P. 361–368
In this paper, the year names on two tablets from the reign of Naramsin of Akkad are mutually restored and their contribution to understanding the development of Old Akkadian royal iconography is considered. ...
Added: July 11, 2024
Preobrazhenskaya A., Studi Slavistici 2022 Т. XIX № 2 С. 27–50
The 12th-cnetury pilgrimage of hegumen Daniil to the Holy Land is the Russian earliest written journey to Jerusalem. The pilgrimage has been studied widely, especially because of the multiple measurements, which Daniil used for describing the places he visited. No other Russian pilgrim, who went to Constantinople or Jerusalem after Daniil, was so much interested ...
Added: October 28, 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
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
Kavtaradze S., Визуальная теология 2020 № 2 С. 50–69
The stone cathedral over the burial place of St. Sergius began to be built in the Holy Spirit in Trinity monastery near Moscow in 1422. St. Sergius's relics at that time were placed nearby in a specially built wooden church. In 1476 builders from Pskov replaced the wooden church with a brick one. Now it ...
Added: December 9, 2020
М.: Издательство "Индрик", 2020.
The fifteenth and final issue of the almanac focuses on two related
topics. In the first section of "About freaks and people" we are talking about physical
cal otherness, in fact, inherent in some of the characters passedor only imaginary, i.e., interpreted as inferiority and moral
the existing idea of an author for whom "the Other" is not
only ...
Added: November 3, 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
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
Cluj-Napoca: Mega Publishing House, 2019.
This volume collects 26 papers authored by lading experts from nine European culntries. It presents a wide range of the latest advances in the study of the ancient Black Sea in Greek and Roman times, with a focus on scholarly traditions, archaeology and religion. All the contributions address current debates about texts, epigraphy, numismatics, and ...
Added: July 27, 2019
О.Левинская, В кн.: Вопросы классической филологии.ΝΥΜΦΩΝ ΑΝΤΡΟΝ: Сборник статей в честь А.А. Тахо-ГодиВып. XV.: М.: Никея, 2010. С. 273–284.
The paper deals with the concept of "Mistress of Animals" as a term of classical philology ...
Added: October 13, 2018
Akhunova O., Вестник древней истории 2011 № 2 С. 100–108
A character of mutual relations between two types of narration - in ancient Greek poetry and iconography of archaic period -- is the issue of the paper ...
Added: October 13, 2018
Babin A., 2017 Т. 19 № 1 (160) С. 24–33
The article is devoted to nine Indian miniatures from the collection of the State Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow). The aim of this study is to provide an academic description of these items, and to clarify their attributions. All the works in question have been thoroughly studied: the author conducted iconographic, textological and stylistic analysis ...
Added: October 10, 2018
Gorgias Press, 2017.
A topic of the paper is a syntactic structure, meaning and origin of an ancient Greek proverb about an ass and a lyre. The syntax of the proverb (or, more exact, the proverbial expression) ὄνος λύρας seems to be very simple, but the lack of a verb or preposition makes its meaning vague. What is ...
Added: October 22, 2017
Rossman V., L., NY: Routledge, 2017.
The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries around the world. In this first book to discuss the issue, Vadim Rossman offers an in-depth analysis of the subject, highlighting the global trends and the key factors that motivate different countries to consider such projects, analyzing the outcomes ...
Added: February 16, 2017