Keywords
icon painting, icon decoration, embossed covers, artistic metalwork, artistic language of embossing, modelling the image of space and time, chronotope, Vietka Museum, Vietka (Vetka), Starodubye,
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Nechaeva G. G. Embossed icon covers of Vietka: space and time // The Art of Eurasia, 2024. № 4 (35). P. 14–33. URL: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2024.04.001.
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Abstract
The Vietka Museum of Old Believers and Belarusian traditions is distinctive in that it offers the opportunity to study icon painting and icon decoration originating from a single historical and cultural region. The majority of these works were created in the Old Believers' centre of Vietka, known as Starodubye. A similar observation can be made with regard to the collection of embossed icon covers. A comparative analysis of two 18th-century embossed icon covers from the village of Novy Krupets (“Assumption” and “Saint Nikita the Warrior and the Hagiography”) reveals a number of similarities in the compositions, plots, motifs and technologies employed in these works. These features suggest the existence of a single, unified image of space and time, designed for the interaction between the icon and the viewer. Also in the local iconography, there are instances of semantic convergence. The archetypes and the traditional methods of modelling the icon's chronotope interact with the artistic language of the New Age, resulting in the phenomenon of the visual icon.
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