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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 6 (180), 1616—1629

UDK 75.041.7-048.76:[75.046.3: 271.4-732.3(438)]”17″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY FROM VILLAGE SKULLS AS A MODEL OF NEW ICONOGRAPHY IN RELIGIOUS PAINTING AFTER ZAMOSKYI CATHEDRAL

PELEKH Mariana

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6704-0133
  • Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor,
  • Researcher at the Art Studies Department,
  • The Institute of Ethnology of the National
  • Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: marjanna.peleh@gmail.com

Abstract. Introduction. The article is devoted to one of the topical topics in the study of church art of the 18th century — iconography of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God. This image is given a special place in the located icons — the central position above the Royal Gate in the festive tier of the iconostasis of the Church of the Annunciation in Cherepin (1765). Such placement emphasizes the significance of this plot in the religious life of the community at that time and reflects the spread of it in Ukrainian iconography of the 18th century. Western influences, in particular Catholic theological concepts.

The aim of the study is to trace the development of the subject matter in terms of biblical references, church dogmas, and literary texts of Orthodox and Catholic preachers. To determine the representation of the peculiarities of the iconography of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in the iconostasis of the Eastern Christian tradition. The object of the study is works of graphic art, Ukrainian iconostases of the seventeenth — early nineteenth centuries, icons from collections of Galicia museum, Volyn and Chernihiv. The subject is the peculiarities of the development of the iconography of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in the Uniate (catholic) environment of the Ukrainian Church.

The article uses art historical methods of analysis, such as iconographic, iconological, as well as methods of semiotic analysis and historical and cultural research. These approaches allow us to study in detail the symbolism, structure and content of iconographic images, to reveal their cultural context and meaning, and to trace the development of the studied images in the broader historical and social environment. These methods allow us not only to identify the formal characteristics of iconographic images, but also to understand their symbolic and spiritual essence more deeply

Conclusions. In the church art of Ukraine after the Zamoiskyi Cathedral of 1720, the development of a new iconography of the Mother of God took place, which was marked by the gradual expansion of the thematic repertoire of the Ukrainian iconostasis. This expansion included the adaptation of iconographic subjects borrowed from Western European artistic culture to the Ukrainian religious tradition.

Keywords: Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, Coronation of the Virgin, iconostasis, Uniated iconography, church, graphic samples.

Received 11.12.2024

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