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At the end of the tenth century a reaction to a formalizad style and Christianity came to Russia by a taste for ornateness of detall be way of the Byzantine Empire. The comes noticeable. Attempts were Greek Church, with its centre atmade to sustain the earlier tradi- Constantinople, "bad already evolv-tión, particularly by the Stroganov ed its own orthodoxy, and round it school, which produced very mar- was centred the decaying but still vellous work; but from the seven- tradition of teenth century, when the-realism Impressive artistic Greece.
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hung in damp corners of old The chief decorations...“, of these monasteries and churches, un- churches were ikons, or sacred pic-noticed except by casual visitors tures, the earliest of which appear and the peasants who repeated to have been brought to Russia their prayers before them. Or, from Constantinople. The oldest esteemed for their plous rather known of these, "Our Lady of than their artistic value, others Vladimir," was brought from By-have been ayatematically and clum- paint and zantium to Kiev In the first half sily recoated with of the twelfth century. Lator, varnish to preserve their visibility however,
groups of Russian from a distance. painters sprang up. For some Research and Restoration time they produced work which was Since the Revolution, however, a purely Byzantine in feeling, but in gigantic task of rosearch and re- the course of years something es-clamation has been undertaken by sentially Russian in spirit crept the Commissariat of Education. into the strict technique of By-From obscure monasterles and zahtine ikon painting. This spirit churches all over the country thou- found increasing expression dur-sands of Ikons. have been gathered ing the thirteenth century, but it up into the central workshops in is not until the fourteenth century Moscow and systematically repair- that any distinctively Russian style ed and restored. A special tech- of ikon painting, becomes recoguiz-nique of restoration has been able. There was little modification evolved. It consists for the most of tradition in the subjects treated; part of the dissolving of the suc but the method of treatment alter-cessive layers which have accumu- led radically. Byzantine painting lated in the course of centuries of as a whole sacrificed vitality to de-vandalistic repaintings; these are corative value. The work of the scraped off with a sharp Instruc new Russian school had a power ment. X-rays being used and photo- and freshness essentially religious graphs taken of each stage of the in spirit that found expression in process. The work will take many a technique not wholly unlike more years to complete, but already that of modern Cubism: Clear, in- in this way a number of the most tense colours were used, curves, re- valuable and oldest specimens of placed by straight lines, and de- Ikea painting have been preserved, tailed ornamentation subordinated and almost complete record build to the general atmosphere of the up of the various passes of the art, painting.
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