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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2018, 3 (141), 651–655

UDK. 7.021.7:271.2-523.47(477.84-22):75.055:7.04

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.03.651

ICONOSTASIS OF CHURCH OF INTRODUCTION TO THE TEMPLE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY OF THE VILLAGE REKSHYN BEREZHANY DISTRICT OF TERNOPIL REGION: ARTISTIC AND COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES

Bakovych Olena, Ph.D. in Art Studies, teacher
of the Department of Sacred Art
of the Lviv National Academy of Arts
Kubiiovycha Street 38, 79011, Lviv, Ukraine.
Contacts: e-mail: olenka.bakovych@gmail.com

Abstrakt. This iconostasis as an example of a combination of carving and painting that are different in time and style was studied. The iconographic and artistic features of monument are characterized from the point of view of traditions and innovations in the context of sacred art of the second half of the XVIII — the last third of the XIX century.

Keywords: icon, iconography, composition of the iconostasis, carving.

Received 12.12.2017

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