was baptized Kiev Rus began to re-learn to trust in God.Important part of the New Testament principles of decision was a ritual aspect of church life.How to pray, what to worship, the order in which to conduct the service?All this ought to assimilate and the congregation and priests.
Byzantine rite of the IX century in general was formed, and at the end of the tenth century, found a clear shape formed by the church in a steady manner.The iconoclasts were defeated at the Council of Nicaea convened as early as 787 AD.The images of the saints, the Virgin Mary and the Son of God became an integral part of the interior of the church.
history of Russian icon painting originated during the construction of the first temple.Accumulated over a century Byzantine experience found expression in the paintings of St. Sophia, the work which began with God's help, in 1037.Masters of the classical school have helped ancient Russian artists, giving them the Byzantine aesthetic views and dedicating them to the subtleties of his art.
founder of Russian iconography Rev. Alimpiy (elsewhere Alipio) was a disciple of the Greeks who came to Kiev.He had an unquestionable artistic talent, sent him over the purity of thought, hard work, humility and Godliness.Asceticism and austerity inherent Alimpiy, reflected in his work, which became visible evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit in the walls of the glorious abode.The mosaics, frescoes of the Kiev period of Christianity differed concise fundamental characteristic of Byzantine art.
Traditions of the first masters of Russian icon painting was interrupted by the Mongol invasion of the XIII century.Many wonderful works have undergone desecration, damage and destruction.Injured images created in the XI-XIII centuries, but their artistic merits can be judged from the surviving examples of the Novgorod school, flourished at about the same time.
Another ancestor of Russian icon painting is considered to be the Metropolitan of Moscow Peter, whose church activity in the XIV century, combined with an artistic asceticism.In contrast to the images of pre-Mongol period, which was characterized by muted, and even gloomy coloring, its icons inherent cheerful bright colors and simple compositions.At the end of the XIX century the founder continued this tradition of Russian icon painting school in Rostov Metropolitan Theodore.
most clearly expressed national features in the images created by the Reverend Andrei Rublev, a genius who managed to combine the idea of a Russian Byzantine character.XV century in the autumn of his work, enlightened by faith, strengthened exceptional artistic gift.However, Reverend Daniil Cherny they created masterpieces of art have become the glory of Russia.Many critics believe, and not without reason, that it was Rublev - the founder of Russian icons in the brightest of its folk forms.
At the end of XV and the first decades of the XVI century worked as a master Dionysius, the church determined the aesthetics of many subsequent periods.Sophistication of colors and shapes, the purity of flavor and tenderness tones with graceful dynamic motion effect give the impression of musical consonance Orthodox chants.In a sense, he is also the founder of Russian icon painting, his works carry the positive emotional charge, which is characteristic of Slavic Christianity.
hard to say who it was from these great creators should be regarded as the founder of the native art of religious painting.Each of them has contributed to the formation of the Russian icon painting, unique and miraculous.
