title: The Portrayal of the Holy Convicts from the 5th Step of the Ladder of John Climacus in the Russian Art of the 16th Century
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metadata.value: Titov, Georgii V.
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metadata.value: 2024-09-17T21:02:10Z
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metadata.value: 2024-09-17T21:02:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Titov, Georgii. “The Portrayal of the Holy Convicts from the 5th Step of the Ladder of John Climacus in the Russian Art of the 16th Century”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 14, no. 2 (2024): 309–335. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2024.205 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2024.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47538
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metadata.value: In the art of Rus’ of the Late Middle Ages there is a certain number of scattered pieces of art
  that share an iconographic cycle of the Monastic Feats — images of different sorts of self-torture
  that are described in the 5th logos of the Ladder of John Climacus. This chapter of the
  Ladder was copied not only as a part of the whole treaty, but on its own as well and inspired a
  ramified iconographic tradition first in the Byzantine Empire and then, since the 16th century,
  in Rus’. These monks resort to the mortification of the flesh for their ultimate absolution. In
  the article, all the examples of the Monastic Feats iconography which survived from the 16th
  century are taken to examination and analysed. As a result, two new attributions are proposed,
  one for the illuminated manuscript of the Ladder from the collection of the riznitsa of Trinity
  Lavra of St. Sergius and another for the vita icon of John Climacus from the Rybinsk Museum
  Reserve. From their analysis within the relative artistic context stems a suggestion of their
  Novgorod origin. In addition, a different and more early dating is proposed for the Rybinsk
  icon in relation to its identification with an image mentioned in the inventory of the Antoniev
  monastery in Novgorod. Some ideas are expressed about the choice of the subject of the Monastic
  Feats for the galleries of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin that were
  repainted after the fire of 1547. The conclusion of the article is that the spread and development
  of the iconography of the Monastic Feats should be ascribed to the art of Novgorod at
  the era of archiepiscopacy Macarius or soon after. Therefore, it is the Novgorod art that played
  a decisive role in the creation of the visual representation of the 5th logos of the Ladder, one of
  the most expressive and impactful pieces of text in the Slavic literacy.
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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 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Climacus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Iconography of the Heavenly Ladder
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monastic feats
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monastic subjects in art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: iconography of the monks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: holy convicts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Russian art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: art of Novgorod
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: art during the reign of Ivan IV
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Portrayal of the Holy Convicts from the 5th Step of the Ladder of John Climacus in the Russian Art of the 16th Century
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metadata.value: Article
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