title: The zoomorphic iconography featuring Saint Christopher in the art of the Balkan countries
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Naydenova, Darya Vadimovna
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-30T15:55:19Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-30T15:55:19Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Naydenova D. V. The zoomorphic iconography featuring Saint Christopher in the art of the Balkan countries. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2020, vol. 2 (28), pp. 107–124.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2020.207
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33716
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: St. Christopher was one of the few Christian saints whose image was portrayed in vivid and
  remarkable iconic art. Although the anthropomorphic iconographic image of the martyr was known in the
  Byzantine world since ancient times, the painters purposely proceeded to depict this saint in his zoomorphic
  guise. The belief in his miraculous power allowing to prevent troubles and to guard against diseases, fostered
  by the diverse artistic interpretations of the zoomorphic face representation, emphasized his particular mystical
  status, which enabled this unprecedented martyr’s iconography to survive almost until the present day. The
  zoomorphic iconography featuring Saint Christopher in the art of the Balkan countries was rather diverse and
  did not correspond to any persistent canon until the 19th century. The lack of metropolitan works representing
  St. Christopher in zoomorphic appearance led to a variety of interpretations of his face representation. This
  article focuses on the zoomorphic iconography of Saint Christopher in the art of the Balkan countries (Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania). Based on the analysis of the extensive corpus of the martyr’s
  images, portrayed in the monumental and easel paintings of the Balkan countries, the author identifies several
  subtypes of the martyr’s zoomorphic iconography (with a head of a dog, a horse and actually of a lamb),
  reveals the possible ways of emergence of each subtype, as well as outlines the regional distinctive features
  of the prevalence of one or another zoomorphic subtype.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (28)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Balkans
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: St. Christopher
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: painting of the Balkan countries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: iconography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: zoomorphic iconography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: art of the Balkan countries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: symbolic meaning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: veneration tradition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The zoomorphic iconography featuring Saint Christopher in the art of the Balkan countries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 107-124.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/33716/1/107-124.pdf
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