THE CHURCH OF ST. BASIL THE GOLDEN-DOMED IN OVRUCH. PROBLEMS OF ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION AND ATTRIBUTION ISSUES
The subject of the research is the study of the works of individual representatives of the religious-national trend and the problems of depiction associated with the interpretation of medieval painting. Tasks: to study the creative approach of A.P. Blaznov, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, D.S. Steletsky in the process of artistic reconstruction of the Church of St. Basil the Golden-Domed in Ovruch in 1911; clarify the problem of, the attribution of murals of this temple. The research is based on formal stylistic analysis, iconological and iconographic methods. A comparative analysis of the murals of the church in Ovruch in comparison with the murals of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on Nereditsa showed which compositions were borrowed and which were created by the artists themselves. The paper reveals the specific features of the interpretation of the medieval pictorial language and defines the characteristic features of the creative manner in the works of these artists.