Icons of the bottom row of the old iconostasis of the Church of St. Nicholas at the village of Olshany
The article is devoted to the icons of the bottom row of the old iconostasis of the Church of St. Nicholas at the village of Olshany of the Dergachevsky region of the Kharkov area - to monuments of sacral art of Sloboda Ukraine baroque eras. Despite the fact that icons of Olshany were introduced into scienti c circulation in the middle of the XIX century, they still have not been specially studied. In the early twentieth century scientist of Kharkiv, Archpriest P.Fomin, considered icons of Olshany not Sloboda monuments. The analysis of the literature, the study of iconography and individual parts of the image gives the gives reason to consider that icons of Olshany are monuments of icon painting of Slobozda the second quarter of the XVIII century. In uenced by icon Studio of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, icons of Olshany demonstrate the identity of the iconography, the original decision of ornamental background, image attributes.