The history of study of the murals in the south chapel of the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour at Polotsk
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-1-2-162-174
Abstract
An overview of the main publications is presented in this paper. Nineteenth-century scholarship was mostly descriptive. The artistic features of the frescoes and their iconography were not then subjected to analysis. V. Sarab'janov considered the chapel painting as an independent ensemble. In his opinion the chapel was decorated with murals after the main ensemble of frescoes. As a scholar he made a significant contribution to the study of the iconography and of the program of decoration of Polotsk chapel. V. Sarab'janov was the first to offer a precise date for the painting (the first third of the thirteenth century). However, there is no consensus among art historians concerning the date of the decoration of the chapel. A. Selickij, V. Pucko and B. Vasil'ev consider it as work of the second quarter or the middle of the twelfth century. Contradictory estimates of the artistic features of the chapel paintings indicate the absence of a clear picture of the stylistic development of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Byzantine and Old Russian painting. It is obvious that we have to find criteria for the analysis of this material.
Supporting agencies: This work was supported by the All-Russian Public Organization 'Association of Art Critics" (State Scholarship 2017).
About the Author
D. A. Skobtsova
Interregional Agency for Scientific Restoration of Works of Art
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Daria A. Skobtsova, restorer
bld. 24/1, Kadashevskaya emb., Moscow, 115035
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Skobtsova D.A. The history of study of the murals in the south chapel of the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour at Polotsk. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(1-2):162-174. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-1-2-162-174
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