Images of saints in the wall paintings of Saint Sophia in Kiev

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Published: Sep 22, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.18564
Keywords:
Middle-Byzantine period 11th century wall paintings Byzantine church decoration iconography images of saints Kiev Saint Sophia of Kiev
Anna ZAKHAROVA
Lecturer at the Department of History and Theory of Art, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Abstract
The paper presents some preliminary results of a research on the wall paintings of Saint Sophia in Kiev aiming to identify the images of the saints through the analysis of iconography and medieval graffiti. Numerous images of saints constitute a significant part of St. Sophia’s iconographic program. Therefore, it is important to understand the principles for their choice and distribution. While some of these principles were in keeping with the current Byzantine tradition, others reflected ideas peculiar to the newly baptized Rus.
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