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UDK [75.046.3:[27-526.62-312.47].03″13″](477.81-22)Дорогобуж

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

A NEW ATTRIBUTION OF THE 14TH-CENTURY ICON OF THE THEOTOKOS ODIGITRIA FROM DOROHOBUZH

BENDIUK Mykola

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  • Library and Archival Studies,
  • Head of the Art Cluster of National University of Ostrog Academy,
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  • of the Princes of Ostroh,
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Abstract. The article deals with the issue of attribution of one of the oldest icons remaining in Ukraine. The object of the study is to clarify the dating of the icon of the Virgin Odigitria of Dorohobuzh, and the subject is the icon itself.

The research of modern scholars provides information on the dating of the icon to the second half of the 13th—15th centuries.

The relevance of the study lies in the fact that in recent years new data have emerged that allow us to more accurately attribute the icon of the Virgin of Dorohobuzh.

The methodological basis of the article is the historical and systematic approach, historical and comparative and iconographic method, methods of artistic and formal and stylistic analysis.

The objectives are to process the new published research of archaeologists with the results of excavations in Dorohobuzh and to compare the new data of archaeologists with previous studies of art historians.

Keywords: Dorohobuzh, icon, Odigitria, Theotokos of Dorohobuzh, Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

Received 29.11.2024

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