title: Standard Units in Miniatures of the Manuscript no. 20 in Russian State Library, Fund 173.I
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metadata.value: Khlebnikov, Denis V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-10-31T14:08:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-31T14:08:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Khlebnikov, Denis. “Standard Units in Miniatures of the Manuscript no. 20 in Russian State Library, Fund 173.I”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 13, no. 3 (2023): 508–534. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.307 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.307
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44323
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metadata.value: The proposed article is addressed to the phenomenon of typical graphic elements used in
  Russian late medieval visual art; the study is based on the material of miniatures of the wellknown
  illuminated manuscript of the Commentated Prophet Book from the collection of the
  Moscow Theological Academy. Previously, a detailed comparison of the drawing of paper icon
  samples, and later of the icons themselves of the 15th–16th centuries as well, led to the conclusion
  that icon painters widely use a set of the same systematically repeating graphic elements.
  They can always be seen in almost any icon, in different numbers and different combinations,
  in the most dissimilar images and regardless of who or what is depicted on the icon: the Savior,
  the Virgin or a prophet; regardless of whether the image in front of us is a half-length image,
  shoulder-length or full-length figure; regardless of the pose, gestures and type of clothing.
  Those elements are used constantly, although their number and set may vary significantly
  from case to case. In addition, their graphics vary quite freely: the proportions within the
  block and its dimensions change relative to other parts of the image, straight lines may be
  more or less curved, or part of the block may be hidden by another detail or, on the contrary,
  shown two or more times. Sometimes some part of the block is inverted, shifted or reduced,
  but the structure of the block remains the same. This observation makes it possible to significantly
  clarify the ideas about the principles of icon-painter work in the 15th–17th centuries:
  the drawing, for example, of a human figure and their robes was not copied literally from icon to icon, neither was invented completely anew each time; the image was more or less “constructed”
  from already existing ready-made blocks, either in the literal sense, or they filled in
  a ready-made general compositional scheme or a part of it, which itself can be considered as a
  standard block of a higher order. The miniatures of the manuscript under study serve as a clear
  example of the use of standard blocks in the Moscow illuminated book of the 15th century. The
  article for the first time compares a large number of deesis and prophetic images.
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
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 13; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian icon painting
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: iconography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: manuscript illumination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: icon tracing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: standard units
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: drawings comparison
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Commentated Prophet Books
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: RSL. Fund 173.I. No. 20
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Standard Units in Miniatures of the Manuscript no. 20 in Russian State Library, Fund 173.I
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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