Collection of icon painting of the State Art Museum of Yugra

Abstract

The collection of icon painting came to the State Art Museum of Ugra in 2011 from the collection of the Art Gallery of the Generations Foundation. Most of the items have been very little studied, as they were in private collections for many years and practically never published. The purpose of this article is to introduce a number of works into the scientific turnover, which will enable us to study them in the context of the development of icon painting in Russia in the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Although the iconography of the Ural-Siberian region is not represented here, the collection gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the iconography of the Volga region and the Russian North, with the iconographic schools of Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Mstyora, Rostov, Vologda and others. The article includes a description and analysis of the iconography and stylistic features of the works; a number of items are of special interest. The material is structured in several blocks: icons and iconography of the Mother of God; icons and iconography of Saint Nicholas and Saint George; iconography of the Last Judgement; academic style of iconography; late iconography according to Byzantine canons; folk icons of the 19th century. In analysing the works, the author relies on the studies of Y.G. Bobrov, G.I. Vzdornov, T.N. Artsybasheva, M.M. Krasilin, N.I. Komashko, R.V. Bagdasarov, A.N. Ovchinnikov, and S.N. Galunova.