The present volume brings
together selected papers from a colloquium held in
Rethymno
at the Institute for
Mediterranean Studies - Foundation for Research and
Technology Hellas
in January 2014.
Thirteen art historians,
historians and philologists focus on portable Russian
icons circulating in the Balkans during the Early Modern
and Modern periods.
The papers investigate the creation,
patronage, paths and routes of these artifacts, as well
as the various facets of their reception in the Balkans
in the framework of public and private religious piety.
This volume represents the first attempt to examine the
transfer and reception of the Russian icons preserved in
various churches, monasteries, private and museum
collections in the Balkans as a discrete element of the
region’s visual culture, to and inscribe the study of
these icons in the social and cultural context of their
host societies.
Contents:
Yuliana Boycheva:
Introduction.
Engelina Smirnova:
Russian Icons, Iconographers, and Iconographic Models
in Countries of the Orthodox World
in the Late 15th and
16th Centuries
Aleksandr Preobrazhenskii:
Russian Images of a Greek Donor in Thessaly and
Venice:
Two portraits of Arsenios, Archbishop of
Elassona
Natalia Komashko and Elena Saenkova:
The Iconographic Program of Russian Icons Donated by
Archbishop Arsenius of Elassona to Greek Monasteries
Nadezhda Chesnokova:
Russian Icons In Jerusalem: The Icon Of Holy Apostle
James, Brother Of The Lord (1644)
Yuliana Boycheva:
The Transfer of Russian Icons to Greece (16th–20th
Centuries) and the Example of Patmos
Nenad Makuljević:
Piety, Ideology, and Orthodoxy: Russian Icons in
Serbian Church Culture (17th–19th Centuries)
Ivanka Gergova:
Russian Icons in Bulgaria
Nikolaos Graikos:
Russian Icons in Churches in the Hellenic Area in the
Late 18th–Early 20th Centuries:
Cultural and
Iconographic Interpretations
Eleni Charchare:
Russian Icons in the Greek Diaspora Communities:
Venice–Livorno–Trieste, 16th–19th Centuries
Tatiana Borisova:
The Functions of the Poetic Text on the Icon in the
Russian and Balkan Baroque Tradition:
The example of the
‘Living Cross’ Category
Nikos Kastrinakis and Nikolas Konstantios:
Eloquent Icons: Sacred Images in Uncommon Use
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