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Keywords
Our Lady of Fire, iconography, Old Believers, culture of the Vetka
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Nechaeva, G.G. (2022) ‘Our Lady of Fire: features of iconography and painting in the culture of Vetka: UDC 75.046(476)’, The Art of Eurasia, (2), pp. 124–133. doi:10.46748/ARTEURAS.2022.02.012.
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Abstract
The article describes and analyzes the image of the “Our Lady of Fire”. Examples of this rare iconography are kept in the Vetka Museum of the Old Believers and Belarusian Traditions (Republic of Belarus). The main stages of formation and variety of variants of the image, its participation in complex compositions of integral complexes of icon-painting monuments, originating from the local Old Believer traditions of the Vetka and Starodubye region are presented, as well as its role in the Old Believer culture of Vetka. On the example of local monuments, the picturesque features of the embodiment of the image are analyzed. The author analyzes the iconography of the multi-part icon with the inclusion of the image of the Mother of God of Fire in symbolic and semantic aspects. In particular, it is shown that the spiritual meaning of the image was close to the monastic circle and the hermitage movement of Vetka and Starodubye, the mystical traditions of hesychasm, and the theme of fire-like images and the depth of the symbolism of fire represents a harmonious iconographic program of the Vetka school of icon painting.
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