February 24, 2020 2456 2 Unusual Icons of Saints That Few Know About The painting of a new icon – be it a copy of a known sample or a new image – is akin to its…
February 20, 2020 388 0 Blessed Valentina of Minsk: The Light of Faith in Dark Times It is God’s providence that in difficult times there should always be lamps of faith that warm the cold hearts. Most importantly, they should…
February 19, 2020 129 0 Gurias Nikitin Gurias Nikitin had a rare feeling of plasticity for a medieval painter. He knew how to make figures dynamic, lively and, ultimately, temperamental. The…
February 12, 2020 348 0 Simon Ushakov No other icon painter got such contradictory opinions about his work as Simon Ushakov. Did he ruin the iconographic tradition, or was he its…
February 6, 2020 293 0 Daniil Cherny Icon painter Daniil Cherny is known primarily for the fact that he worked with Andrei Rublev, which actually puts his personality in the shadow…
January 30, 2020 162 0 My Journey to the Russian North Throughout many centuries of Russian history, wood has remained the main building material due to its accessibility and renewability. Wood as a building material…
January 29, 2020 625 0 What Is a Measure Icon and What Is It for? Search engines fetch a wide array of links to icon painting workshops specializing in measure icons, as well as links to articles popularizing these…
January 23, 2020 465 0 Mikhail Nesterov Mikhail Nesterov was not a monumentalist by the nature of his talent, but rather a lyricist. For almost twenty years of his creative biography,…
January 22, 2020 152 0 Two Episodes of Nonviolent Religiosity When God reveals Himself to us and when we meet Him, we are very eager to share this discovery with our loved ones. Sometimes…
January 16, 2020 233 0 Frescoes of the Holy Transfiguration Church Few people know that there is only one historical site on the territory of modern Belarus where 12th-century frescoes have been preserved: the Transfiguration…