Icon-painting and painting. Icons and paintings

Authors

  • Leonid D. Raigorodski Saint Petersburg State University

Abstract

The article attempts to justify the necessity to treat icon-painting and painting as two diffe rent 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”.

Keywords:

icons, paintings

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Author Biography

Leonid D. Raigorodski, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD, professor of the Department of Design of the Faculty of Arts at the Saint Petersburg State University, artist-restorer of the high category

References

Литература

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References

1. Gerhard H. P. The World of Icons. John Murray. London, 1971. 232 p.

2. Lorentso Giberti. Commentarii. Kommentarii. Zapiski ob ital'ianskom iskusstve. Transl. and comment. by Andrei Guber. Moscow, IZOGIZ, 1938. 104 p. (In Russian)

3. Kniga, naritsaemaia Strasti Khristovy. (Napechatana poluustavom.) Tipografiia Supral'skoi, 1794. 179 p. (In Russian)

4. Raigorodskii L. D. Besedy o russkikh ikonakh. St. Petersburg, Glagol Publ., 1996. 124 p. (In Russian)

5. Mikelandzhelo da Karavadzho. Dokumenty. Vospominaniia sovremennikov. Comp. and comment. by N. A. Belousova. Moscow, Iskusstvo Publ., 1975. 118 p. (In Russian)

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Published

2014-03-18

How to Cite

Raigorodski, L. D. . (2014). Icon-painting and painting. Icons and paintings. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts, 4(1), 126–138. Retrieved from https://artsjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/4461

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Visual arts

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