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Introduction Workshops Iconpainters Icon cleaning |
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 Until recently, icons of the 18th-19th century rarely attracted the attention of scholars, experts and connoisseurs of Russian antiquity. However, the works of icon painters of this period are counted among the most striking and popular phenomena of national culture. Icons were painted in monasteries and country huts (izbas), in the secluded monasteries of the Taiga and in student classes of the Russian Academy of Arts. Some of these icons were created on commission, others were for sale at large holiday fairs; they were acquired for family chapels and for country cottages. The works of 18th and 19th century masters could not be affected by the artistic culture of the epoch and the complex process of shifts in artistic style - Baroque, Rococo, Classicism. The development of the so-called "painterly" trend is connected to the interpretation and use of Western iconography and single-point perspective; small icons borrow more and more from the effective scenes of Baroque murals, using the new compositional method of painting with ornamental motifs and the draping cloth of the fanciful refined Rococo style. |
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