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Mosaics in the Regional Museum of Messina, their stylistic features and place in the art of the Early Palaeologan period

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-6-65-77

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The Regional Museum of Messina possesses four fragments of monumental mosaics originating from local churches. Their dating, as suggested in research literature, varies between the second half of the 13th century and the first third of the 14th. А question remains open concerning the roles that the authentic Byzantine and/or local Sicilian masters played in their creation.
Messinian mosaic fragments show familiarity with methods of rendering faces which were not crystallized in Byzantine art before the origin of the mosaics in Kariye Camii (1316–1321). In the opinion expressed here, they were all produced during the first third of the 14th century, by local craftsmen who were guided by Constantinople models, although a manner they worked in was more simplified in comparison with metropolitan one. An exception is a mosaic depicting the archangel Michael, which could have been created by a visiting Byzantine master who had metropolitan training.

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Yakovleva M.I. Mosaics in the Regional Museum of Messina, their stylistic features and place in the art of the Early Palaeologan period. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(6):65-77. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-6-65-77

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