To the problem of understanding the phenomenon of martyrdom in the context of the tradition of icon painting (on the example of general principles of the formation of the iconography of the «cathedral of new martyrs and confessors of russian »)

Authors

  • Yuliya Leonidovna Kosyakina South Ural State University, Chelyabisk, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14529/ssh180211

Keywords:

Church art, iconography, Cathedral of new Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, contemporary icon painters, canonization, Russian Orthodox Church.

Abstract

The writings glorifying and perpetuating the memory of the new Martyrs and Confessors of Russia
are of exceptional importance today. They provide an opportunity of reflection and consecration of the
history of our past. At the present stage the dynamics of growth of canonization is clearly visible. It is

associated with the need to create a new iconography. The article is reveals of the general principles
of the formation of iconography of the «Cathedral of new Martyrs and Confessors of Russia». The
author identified the problems of general character of painting faces in the practice of contemporary
icon painters on the base of analysis a number of icons of the Cathedral of Saints.

Author Biography

Yuliya Leonidovna Kosyakina, South Ural State University, Chelyabisk, Russian Federation

South Ural State University, Chelyabisk, Russian Federation

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Section

Art History