Regarded as the supreme form of rehgious art of Byzantium, and wall paintings as the finest achievement of the artists of the Balkan world, icons were destined to In Russia, these panels provided the answer to whereas mosaics can perhaps beĪ deeply felt spiritual need, with the result that,
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This they found in the individual figures and scenes which were reproduced on the portable panels we know as icons. Scenes and figures in the paintings seemed as far removed from Of the intimacy which the Russians required as an accompaniment to their The story of the scriptures and providing visual representations of the persons figure inĪnd the distance which separated them from the worshippers. Regions of northern Russia, even though theĬountry as a whole had become a basically devout and genuinely Christianĭue to the energetic measures which Vladimir andīest in the people, and the magnificent setting provided by theĭid their innate love of splendour and of grave beauty, playedĪdorned the inner walls of their churches helped to further the cause by providing worshippers with an inexhaustible fund from which to draw material to occupy their livelyĭecorations inside the churches, which were concerned with recording Nevertheless, there in the remoter, thickly The principality of Vladimir-Suzdal were as fervent as Kiev in their faith and scarcely less wellĮndowed with churches, many of which were some Kiev was not the only Russian stronghold of Christianity other thriving urban Were destined to rank with Hagia Sophia, the church of St Michael and the cathedral church of the Monastery of the Caves, were not built The grandeur of the cathedral church of the Virgin of the Dime, but the two which Structed of wood, the local building material in the area. These were doubtless of modest dimensions and con. With the foremost Western cathedrals of similar date.ġ018) was astonished to find 400 churches standing
Should ecUpse the magnificence of Constan. Though theīoth of which came as a surprise to Westernĭittmar, bishop of Megibur (976 within Kiev's walls. Was outstripped in 1036 or 1037, when Yaroslav, Vladimir's youngest son and successor,įounded the cathedral of Hagia Sophia. Of the Virgin of the Dime, was laid by Vladimir in 991. Were ruthlessly destroyed, and Kiev, the kernel from which present-day Russia has developed, was rapidly provided with the churches necessary for the The people had turned for hope and comfort His wishes were carried out with characteristic Kiev, having himself recently become a convert, decreed that his people were to follow his example and accept baptism in mass. Idols of various sorts until the year 988, Of the local population remained pagan, worshipping Merchants who had begun to flock to increasing numbers. Several churches existed in Kiev for aĬonversion to Christianity, but they were intended primarily for the use of the foreign Russia's conversion at the very end of the tenth century does not appear nearly soīyzantium, Armenia and Georgia, which had beenĬhristian since the third or fourth century. Known today as western Russia, in order to gain control of the region's great waterways - much of Scandinavia was still pagan, as were large areas of such basically Christian countries as Ireland* and even many aīackwater of rural England, though supposedly converted. The prevailing tendency to think of western Europe as a whollyĬhristian entity from, at any rate, as far back as the sixth century A.D.
Thus often inclined to distort our viewing of the Triptych showing the Virgin Child with scriptural
Incident from the martyrdom of St George Four saints Quadripartite icon illustrating scenes from the Passion The Virgin of Tenderness The Virgin of Vladimir The Holy Wisdom Reproduced by courtesy of the Tretyakov Gallery.ĭeesis St Boris and St Gleb The archangel Gabriel The apostles Peter and Paul with the Christ Emmanuel St Nicholas the Miracle Worker with saints The Nativity, ascribed toĬentral angel from the Old Testament Trinity St John, largely the work of Andrei Rublev An angel from an Old Testament TrinityĪnd St Nicholas Macarius of Alexandria and St Macarius of EgyptĪscension Dormition Annunciation Ascension Printed in Czechoslovakia by Svoboda, Prague Of Fine Arts for the use of their photographs for Plates
Of Russian medieval painting assembled in But for their help the necessary colour plates could not have been
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