PRESENTATIONAL ICON WITH A VIEW OF LIKHVIN DOBRYI MONASTERY: DATING, TYPOLOGY, ICONOGRAPHY, STYLISTIC FEATURES
This article is devoted to the presentational icon with a depiction of Likhvin Dobryi Monastery of Intercession of Theotokos near Kaluga from the collection of Andrey Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art. The article speci es the dating of the monument, determines its typology, and characterises the iconography and style. Due to the information about the chronology of constructions carried out in the monastery, it is possible to date the icon to the time range of 1818-1832. The lower date is due to the stylistic features of this icon which were formed under the in uence of architectural drawing from 1818. The upper date is due to the typological characteristics of the icon as a gift (presentational icon) to a particularly important person in memory of the solemn consecration of the renovated monastery ensemble in 1832. The typological characteristic of the monument as a special gift is supported by a number of iconographic and typological parallels. The iconographic programme of the icon shows the principles of compositional structure of presentational and distributed icons (Rus. подносные и раздаточные иконы): the pictorial surface is divided into two parts; at the bottom is a panoramic view of the city or a monastery; at the top there are celestial patrons. Taking into account the administrative dependence of Likhvin Dobryi Monastery from Kaluga diocese and comparing the icon with a number of dated works similar in style, it was possible to place them in the circle of works of Kaluga icon-painters of the Empire style. A number of these parallels constitute a separate stylistic line of this regional artistic tradition: it is distinguished by delicate colouring, sentimentality and classical restraint.