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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2025. № 6 (186), 1379—1388

UDK 7.072.4:7.046.3(477.83-25)”16/19″:069.4

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

ICONS FROM ST. MICHAEL CHURCH IN PEREHRYMKA: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND QUESTIONS OF ATTRIBUTION

GORDA-CYBKO Olga

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4422-0966
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head,
  • Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv,
  • Department of Ancient Art,
  • 20 Svobody Ave., 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: olha.horda@nml.com.ua

Abstract. The tasks of attribution, identification, and cataloguing of objects in museum collections have always been, and remain, complex, significant, and highly relevant in contemporary museology. Considering the historical context that influenced the formation and acquisition of collections, a number of unresolved questions and issues requiring clarification have emerged.

In this context, the role of the Stauropigion Institute in general, and the Archaeological and Bibliographic Exhibition it organized in particular, is examined in relation to the discovery, preservation, and study of sacred art monuments in Western Ukrainian territories.

The purpose of the study is to perform an analysis of the group of icons from the collection of the National Museum in Lviv that originate from the Church of the Archangel Michael in Perehrymka, in the context of the church’s history, the reconstruction of its artistic interior, as well as the systematization and clarification of the attribution of dispersed works.

Special attention is devoted to unpublished pieces that belong to a larger complex, part of which has already been introduced into scholarly circulation, and to the historical circumstances that led to the dispersal of these monuments.

The chronological framework of the research covers the period from the second half of the 16th century to the second half of the 19th century.

The methodology is based on the historical — genetic method, historical reconstruction, and also includes methods of analysis, systematization, and attribution of sacred art objects.

The primary objective of the study was to examine a substantial group of artifacts originating from a single church, yet differing in their time of creation and artistic provenance. In the course of the research, the need for a revised attribution of these objects arose, as key identifying information had been lost due to various historical circumstances. This necessitated clarification of their attribution, including the dating, authorship, origin, and current location of the respective works.

Keywords: icon, iconographic style, liturgical objects, Archaeological and Bibliographic Exhibition of 1888—1889, painter Ivan Hyrovskyi, Fathers Ivan, Tyt and Marjan Myshkovskyi, village of Perehrymka.

Received 30.08.2025

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