title: The Sources and Meaning of the Term Decency in the Writings of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn on Fine Arts
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metadata.value: Sechin, Alexander G.
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metadata.value: 2023-01-20T13:37:00Z
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metadata.value: 2023-01-20T13:37:00Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Sechin, Alexander. “The Sources and Meaning of the Term Decency in the Writings of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn on Fine Arts”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 4 (2022): 682–707. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.407 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.407
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38888
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metadata.value: The author focuses on one of the most important terms of normative aesthetics and art, decency,
  which occupies a prominent place in the writings of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn (1734–1803),
  devoted to the issues of architecture and fine arts. A detailed study of the origins of decency
  and the meaning of this concept leads to the identification of three stages in its development,
  consistently considered with the involvement of both source texts and the works of modern
  scholars. The first stage was the flourishing of classical ancient Greek art, which corresponds
  to the concept of τὸ πρέπον, formed in the consciousness and rhetorical culture of Athens. In
  relation to the fine arts, its importance cannot be overestimated, since decency was not conceived without an adequate and eye-catching external expression of typical images, including
  their social status and ethical content. Under its influence, a system of canons of European art
  was born in ancient Greece. The second stage is associated with the Renaissance, when the
  idea of convenevolezza arises. It was focused on the Classical Antiquity and the appropriate
  iconographic tradition and therefore had a pronounced retrospective character. Finally, the
  classicism of the Enlightenment era, or neoclassicism, the time of Golitsyn’s life and work,
  picks up the baton of the norm in art and the deviations from it made by nature itself. Golitsyn’s
  interpretation of decency in his treatises and its correct understanding by art historians
  are important, since these works formed the basis of the Russian doctrine of normative,
  primarily academic art. Decency in the understanding of the ancient Greeks, Italians of the
  Renaissance and enlighteners of the 18th century did not completely dissolve in the works of
  the great and ordinary masters of those distant times. It is invariably revived when it comes to
  the visualization of traditions, proprieties and various norms within artistic culture, about the
  artist’s service to the model, the canon.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Scientific Foundation (RSF) according to the research
  project no. 22-28-01007 “Manuscripts of Prince D. A. Golitsyn (1734–1803) devoted to the issues of fine art.
  Full transcript, scientific commentary and preparation for publication”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dmitry Alekseevich Golitsyn
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: propriety
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: convenevolezza
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: τὸ πρέπον
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: visualization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: canon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: antique art
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Renaissance
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neoclassicism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A Strict Young Man
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metadata.value: The Sources and Meaning of the Term Decency in the Writings of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn on Fine Arts
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