Archive
«Narodoznavchi Zoshyty» 2014 year, issue 3 read »
2013 year, issue 1 read »
«The Ethnology Notebooks» 2020 year, issue 1 read »
«Narodoznavchi Zoshyty» 2015 year, issue 4 read »

« 2017. #6 (138)

The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 6 (138), 1450—1458

UDK 75.046.3.072.3:27—526.62](477)”14/16″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.06.1450

Received 7.11.2017

ICONOGRAPHY AND SYMBOLISM OF THE IMAGE «Rolling up the havens» IN UKRAINIAN ICONS «LAST JUDGMENT» OF XV—XVII CENTURIES

Lesiv Andrii, Ph.D in Art Studies, research fellow at the Art Studies Department of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Svobody Avenue 15, Lviv, 79000, Ukraine.
Contacts: Tel. (067)3748645; e-mail: lesiv@nas.gov.ua

Abstract: In this article the features of iconography and symbols of the image of «Rolling up the havens» — the fragment of a complex and multi­dimensional composition of icons «The Last Judgment» are analyzed. There is a link between the Ukrainian and Byzantine iconography of this composition, their common and distinctive features are studied. An analysis of compositional construction of the image, its place in the iconography of «The Last Judgment» is carried out. For the first time, the main differences in the iconography of «Rolling up the havens» in the icons of the XV and XVI—XVII centuries are traced, an analysis of the evolution of «the Ancient of Days» image is carried out. An analysis of the inclusion of non­canonical elements in the «Rolling up the havens» iconography is made: there are the signs of the zodiac, astronomical objects, pre-Christian mythological images.

Keywords: iconography, symbolism, image, the Last Judgement, heavenly bodies, zodiac.

REFERENCES

Bibliia, abo knyhy Sviatoho Pys’ma Staroho j Novoho Zapovitu. (2002). Kyiv: Ukrains’ke Biblijne Tovarystvo. [in Ukrainian]
Lesiv, A.P. (2016). Ikonohrafiia Strashnoho Sudu v ukrains’komu maliarstvi: stanovlennia I rozvytok u konteksti vizantijs’koho mystetstva. The Ethnology Notebooks, 5, 1044—1051. [in Ukrainian]
Sydor, O. (2001). Reiestr ikon StrashnohoSudu v kolektsii NML. Litopys Natsional’noho muzeiu u L’vovi imeni Andreia Sheptyts’koho, 2 (7), 90—96. [in Ukrainian]
Sydor, O.F. (2014). Svit astronomii v obrazakh ukrains’koho mystetstva. In Ukrains’ke nebo: Studii nad istoriieiu astronomii v Ukraini (pp. 226—317). [in Ukrainian]
Fedak, M. (2014). Astronomichni motyvy v ukrains’komu ikonopysi.Ukrains’ke nebo: Studii nad istoriieiu astronomii v Ukraini (pp. 211—225). [in Ukrainian]
Berezhnaya, L., Himka, J-P. (2014). The World to Come. Ukrainian Images of the Last Judgement. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Himka, J.-P. (2009). Last Judgement Iconography in the Carpathians. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Himka, J.-P.(2004). The Icon of Last Judgment in the Village of Roztoka, Transcarpathia. Zachodnioukraińska Sztuka Cerkiewna. Część II. Materiały z międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej Łańcut—Kotań 17—18 kwietnia 2004 roku (pp. 363—380).  Łańcut: Muzeum-Zamek w Łańcucie. [in Enlish]
Himka, J.-P. (2008—2009). The Last Judgment Icon of Mshanets. Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 33—34, 219—226.
Kłosińska, J. (1987). Icônes de Pologne.Varsovie: éditions Arkady. [in French]
Zlatohlávek, M. (2002). Sąd Ostateczny. Freski, miniatury, obrazy. Kraków: Wydawnictwo WAM. [in Polish].

Read»

Our authors
Olena Nykorak. Senior Researcher, Doctor of Arts read »
Oksana Sapeliak. Senior Research Fellow, Ph.D. in... read »
Oksana Kis. Senior scientific employee, candidate of... read »
Yaroslav Taras. Head of Department, Professor, Doctor... read »
On bessarabian and moldavian ukrainians in the studies of historical ethnography
The article has thrown some light upon a sum of scientific findings got during XIX to XXI cc. in historio-ethnographic studies of Bessarabia and Moldavian Ukrainians. In the pre­sent paper has been given author’s answer to the problem of lacking progress as for the numerous themes concerning Ukrainians. State and achievements of the research-works in Ukrainians’ material and spiritual culture by the scientists of Moldavia and Ukraine through the years of independence has been exposed.
Read »

Maternity ritualism by volhynians in publications of the second half XIX to the early XXI cc.
In the article have been considered some basic landmarks for fixing and publication of ethnographic materials on the maternity rites of Volhynia with analytical study in ritual elements, their kinds and territories of origin. The article has also raised a problem of gaps in studies of maternity rites of Ukrainian historio-ethnographic Volhynia.
Read »

Traditional folk clothes of velikobychkovsky hutsuly of XIX — the first half of XX century
In the study based upon numerous field materials, literature sources as well as ethnographic, historio-cultural and regional museum collections has been performed complex analysis in traditional folk clothes by Hutzul population of Velyky Bychkiv village in Transcarpathian region. Detailed descriptions of femi­nine and masculine clothing complexes of the mentioned area have been presented. In characterizing of those main attention has been paid to the detail of cut in separate components of dress; cut of feminine shirt has been added as an illustration.
Read »

Daily bread baking of ukrainians in the south-western ethnographical region at the late XIX to early XXI cc.
The paper has dealt with analytic study in prescriptions, signs, customs, methods, ways of selection, procurement and some peculiarities in usage of subsidiary means — water, firewood and leaves in bread baking. The final aim of the mentioned actions had been (and still is) selection of the means and ingredients fit, by their characteristics, for the backing of bread. The paper has demonstrated dependence of bread backing subsi­diary means criteria from the folk nutritional standards and world outlook stereotypes as well as from regional social and economic, natural and geographical factors and peculiarities of material culture.
Read »