Open AccessSapozhnikovs’ Ecclesiastical Painting from the Points of View of Archimandrite Photios and the Archeologist G. D. Filimonov
Author(s) -
Konstantin Maslov
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-6-52-56
Subject(s) - icon , painting , art , mural , visual arts , natural (archaeology) , landscape painting , art history , history , archaeology , computer science , programming language
The article is devoted to the points of view of archimandrite Photios and the scientist-archeologist G. D. Filimonov on the creative work of Sapozhnikov brothers, Moscow guild icon-painters of the early 19th century. While Photios would see in the mural and iconic works by the Sapozhnikovs the evidence of firmness of the ancient icon-painting school, Filimonov conversely perceived them as a proof of development opportunities for the authentic Russian folk art. The reason for such a sharp difference between their opinions was a distorted understanding of the ecclesiastical painting’s nature in the Modern Age as well as of the origin of its stylistic and iconographic dissimilarity.