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The Iconography of the Mythological Characters in the Divine Comedy Manuscripts of the 14th-15th Centuries: Functions and Iconographical Sources
Fenestella. Inside Medieval Art. 2023. Vol. 4. P. 19–51.
Alina Miroshnik, Pozhidaeva A.
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 some manuscripts would clarify the genesis process of specific iconographic schemes within the framework of a very specific task: illustrating a text replete with figures of speech and references to ancient sources that were often unknown to the iconography designer. This contribute is devoted to the iconography of mythological characters found in Dante’s text and their visual sources based on a few manuscripts of the Divine Comedy dated from mid-14th and 15th centuries, six of which are fully illustrated.
Zabrodina E., Academia. Журнал об искусстве и истории искусства 2026 № 3 С. 489–506
The iconographic theme of the Virgin among the Virgins gained popularity in Early Netherlandish painting in the last third of the fifteenth century, appearing in the works of Hans Memling and Hugo van der Goes, as well as in altarpieces by anonymous Bruges masters, such as the Master of the Legend of St Lucy. It ...
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Zenkin S., P.: Classiques Garnier, 2025.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, visual image (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) can often be a character in literary and film plots, an element of the fictional world. Its narrative forms and functions are explored from a theoretical and comparative perspective. ...
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Поликарпова Д. А., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 432–441
This article is a review of Natalia Samutina's collection of texts «This Music is Too Beautiful: texts on cinema and more» (Moscow: Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie, 2025), edited by the author's colleagues, Boris Stepanov and Irina Kaspe. Considering the volume as a «seismograph of time», the author reconstructs the intellectual context of Russian film theory in ...
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Двоскин А. С., Коммуникации. Медиа. Дизайн 2026 Т. 11 № 3 С. 83–104
The article examines multisensory technologies in contemporary VR and XR art. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that such technologies are increasingly used not only to intensify the viewer’s experience, but also to model the experience of another body. The aim of the article is to show which sensory and technological ...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This collection of papers explores the epic traditions of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, bringing together insights from remarkable scholars. Topics range from the cuneiform epic of Erra to Homeric epics and Greco-Roman literature, shedding light on the role of epic texts in shaping collective identities and understanding ancient societies. The validity of ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2026.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Limits of Control / K. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. — 44 p.: ill. — (one cup book). Series: one cup book. Study guide. 16+. Recommended for students of design and art history, as well as the general public. The three masters featured in this series shaped the ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2025.
Le Corbusier: Light, Concrete, and Asceticism / K. A. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinct creative logic, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is. The architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris—who adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920—appears as ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2026.
The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinctive logic of creative thought, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is.
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect who stood at the forefront of modern architecture and defined the vocabulary of modernism alongside Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
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Суворова А. А., Kazantseva E., Podlednov D., СПб.: Алетейя, 2026.
The authors of the monograph examine three aspects of the phenomenon of marginality in artistic culture from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The first part of the volume focuses on the processes and actors of the “borderlands” in the context of art and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The ...
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Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
This volume is a product of the conference “Proizvodstvo, Dokumentatsiia, Interventsiia. Proizvedeniia iskusstva v usloviiakh neofitsial'noi sovetskoi kul'tury 1960-80-kh gg.” (Production, Documentation, Intervention. Works of art in the conditions of unofficial Soviet culture, 1960s-1980s), organized by Ilja Kukuj and Brigitte Obermayr at Munich University (LMU) in November 2018. The conference was financed by Professor Riccardo ...
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Golovlev A., Научный вестник Московской консерватории 2026 Vol. 17 No. 2 P. 352–357
Vincenzina C. Ottomano’s Quando l’opera russa diventò europea is an ambitious and carefully argued study of the reception of Russian opera in Italy and France from the 1870s to the first decade of the twentieth century. The book examines how Russian operatic works were reframed by critics, impresarios, patrons, and institutions and transformed into cultural ...
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Бейн П. В., Дубровская Д. В., Zinchenko S. et al., Институт востоковедения РАН, 2026.
Contrary to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's assertion that "the most beautiful thing in the stars, houses, and deserts is what the eyes cannot see," the authors of this monograph dispassionately test the harmony of beauty in the East through the algebra
of scientific analysis, continuing the work of their first book, "The Beautiful and the Utilitarian: From ...
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Borzenko V., Театралис, 2025.
Творчество Бориса Васильевича Щукина – одна из интереснейших страниц в истории сценического искусства, а для Театра им. Вахтангова и вовсе целая веха, прославившая коллектив в 1920-е – 1930-е годы. Его судьба прослеживается подробно с самых первых лет интереса к театру, участия в любительских кружках подмосковной Каширы, поступления в Вахтанговскую студию и до последних лет жизни. ...
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Irina A. Afanaseva, Pavel S. Sorokin, October 2026 No. 196 P. 69–79
This article examines the development and cultural significance of NFT art in Russia, framing it through the sociological lens of “neo-structuration” theory — a framework that foregrounds individual agency as a driving force within evolving social and technological structures. The authors argue that NFTs have emerged in Russia as a means for young and independent ...
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Пермь: [б.и.], 2026.
В сборнике представлены материалы Научно-практической конференции «Царствование Императора Николая I в истории России. К 200-летию восшествия на Престол», состоявшейся в Перми 10–11 июня 2025 г. Конференция была организована Администрацией губернатора Пермского края, Пермской митрополией Русской Православной Церкви, Фондом содействия возрождению традиций милосердия и благотворительности «Елисаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество» и Агентством по делам архивов Пермского края на ...
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Chukcheeva M., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 182–215
The article deals with the process of the domestication of the national past in Russian art using the example of V. I. Jacobie’s “Morning at the Court of Anna Ioannovna” (1872-1873). The painting was restricted to displaying at the 1873 Academy exhibition because it depicted aristocrats playing leapfrog in front of the sick Anna Ioannovna. ...
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Scientific publishing house Infinity, 2026.
Scientific Forum Proceedings combine materials of the conference – research papers and thesis reports of scientific workers. They examine technical, juridical and sociological aspects of research issues. Some articles deal with theoretical and methodological approaches and principles of research questions of personality professionalization. ...
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Bodrova A. S., Guskov S., Studi Slavistici 2026 Т. 23 № 1 С. 197–212
The article investigates foreign censorship as an institution of cultural transfer in the Russian Empire and its impact on the reception of Italian literature between the 1830s and 1850s. Drawing on archival materials, the authors demonstrate that censorship decisions were determined not only by the norms of the Censorship Statute (1828) but also by a ...
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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 ...
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Voskoboynikov O., , in: L'éloquence du visage entre Orient et Occident.: Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022. P. 3–36.
In this article the author tries to look at the history of the face in medieval art in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective. The history of the face in the Middle Ages should be contextualized in a wider horizon, going back to some practices in ancient world, and coming to our modern, contemporary situation. This ...
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Pozhidaeva A., , in: Repenser l’histoire de l’art médiéval en 2023. Recueil d’études offertes à Xavier Barral i Altet.: Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 2023. P. 483–492.
the article is devoted to the clarification of iconographic terminology on the example of the iconography of the Creation of the world in the 9th-12th centuries in the medieval West ...
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Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 2023.
the book is a jubilee collection of articles in honor of the medievalist art critic Xavier Barral-i-Altet ...
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Pozhidaeva A., В кн.: Лазаревские чтения. Искусство Византии, Древней Руси, Западной Европы : материалы научной конференции 2010, а также несколько докладов, прозвучавших на конференциях 2014-2016 годов.: М.: КДУ, 2022. Гл. 3 С. 190–210.
Цe are talking about the iconographic horizon of a miniaturist of the 12th century from the Rhine-Maas region, who included among the personifications of the Days of Creation a character that is an iconographic hybrid of the images of Apollo and Daphne in a scene of the late Roman type ...
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