title: Russian Foolishness and Images of Fools in the Museum of Icons in Recklinghausen
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metadata.value: Tuminskaya, Olga A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-03-20T10:49:49Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-03-20T10:49:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Tuminskaya, Olga. “Russian Foolishness and Images of Fools in the Museum of Icons in Recklinghausen”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 10, no. 1 (2020): 177–188.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2020.109
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17257
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Images of ascetics, which to a certain extent derive associations with Byzantine asceticism,
  can be found in Western European icons and murals. These are images of Fools-for-Christ.
  Images of persons clad in short-skirted garments, occasionally with symbols of their specific
  activities, such aspublic executioners, grave-diggers, and “the halt and the blind” are rare,
  although not unique. The similarity of garments and extraordinary symbols correlates with
  icons depicting “secular Fools-of-God,” although carrying a wider emotional and semantic
  load. The surviving images of “odd-looking” characters in Western European sacred art of the
  12–17th centuries can be included in an individual established category known as “Kehricht
  der Welt” and presented as an outstanding phenomenon within the icon-painting repertoire
  of Christian artistic heritage. The article is devoted to the study of the image of Procopius and
  John of Ustiug Fool-for-Christ, who is one ofthe most popular old Russian saints, as well as
  the image of Saint Christopher Cynocephalus- the most famous Byzantine saint. Information
  about these blessed ones came to Russia as a result of the spread of literacy. Legends about
  various saints were brought by travelers and traders who regularly visited Constantinople and
  other countries. Attention to these saints led to writing about their lives lives and the creation
  of icons of saints. This situation is typical for Russian art of the Middle Ages 12–17th centuries.
  Information about monuments of Russian and Cypriot icon-painting of the 15–17th centuries
  from the Recklinghausen Museum of Icons (Germany) is introduced.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 10; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Fools-for-Christ
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: martyrs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Saint Procopius and Saint John of Ustyug
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Saint Christopher Cynocephalus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Recklinghausen icon collection
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Russian Foolishness and Images of Fools in the Museum of Icons in Recklinghausen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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