Образы храмов и монастырей Константинополя на миниатюрах Минология императора Василия II

Искусствознание. 2023. № 3. С. 46–71.

Лихачева Д. Д.

This article is devoted to the images of churches and monasteries of
Constantinople in the Menologium of Basil II, one of the most beautiful manuscripts of the
Macedonian Renaissance. The appeal to early art, characteristic of the painting of this time, led
to the return of many techniques and pictorial forms forgotten during the iconoclastic period.
This also affected the architectural images, which became much more complex: many new
details, borrowed both from ancient samples and from modern masters of real buildings appeared
in manuscripts. In many ways, it was the attention of artists from the 9 th to 11 th centuries to
architecture around them allows us not only to compare the images created by the masters with
texts (for example, with ekphrasises) and preserved monuments, but also to refer to them as a
reflection of the Byzantine view of architecture, where each individual element had a special
meaning for the viewer.

Keywords: Византия, Byzantium, Byzantine art, византийское искусство, византийская архитектура, Byzantine architecture

Publication based on the results of: Комментированный перевод греческой версии «Истории Армении» Агафангела (2022)