ARTS.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | VISUAL ARTS: THE HERITAGE AND MODERNITY | ||
| Codes UDC | 75.046 | Page | 126-138 |
| Title | ICON-PAINTING AND PAINTING. ICONS AND PAINTINGS | ||
| Author 1 | Raigorodski Leonid D. | St. Petersburg State University 7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation Professor e-mail: raigor-spb@mail.ru |
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| Summary | The article attempts to justify the necessity to treat icon-painting and painting as two different art forms. Icon-painting is dedicated to conventional, i.e. symbolic representation of something determined by unearthly causes. Icons possess a unique spiritual content. Paintings in their essence are tied with people�s lives and their emotions. European pragmatic realism has been formed. The article compares old Russian icons and European paintings with identical subjects. A Novgorodian icon �The Entombment� is compared with a painting by Michelangelo Caravaggio � �The Entombment�, a Novgorodian icon �Presentation of Christ in the Temple� is compared with Memling�s �The Presentation in the Temple�, a Pskovian icon �Resurrection. Descend to the Limbo� � with Angelo Bronzino�s �Descent of Christ to the Limbo�, a Pskovian icon �Assumption of the Mother of God� � with Hugo van der Goes�s �Death of the Virgin�. |
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| Keywords | icons, paintings. | ||