Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art

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Ph.D., Senior lecturer

s.maltseva@spbu.ru

Graduated from the Department of History of Art, St. Petersburg Christian university. Completed a postgraduate course at the department of art history, St. Petersburg State university (supervisor V. Bulkin). Lectured at St. Petersburg Christian university from 2005 to 2009, from 2006 has worked at the Department of History of Art, St. Petersburg State university.

Svetlana Maltseva ‘s special interest lies in Eastern Christian art. She has been studied architecture and painting of the Eastern Christian region for many years. She organised several international expeditions, actively involving art history students of both St. Petersburg State university and Lomonosov State university (Serbia, 2009; Turkey, 2010; Serbia-Macedonia, 2011; Greece, 2013)

From 2009 Svetlana has organised and lead summer schools for art history students: Museum and local history summer school (Moscow group, took place in 2010–2013) and field practise (Zvenigorod group, takes place from 2013 on). The summer schools were developed and implemented as a part of collaborative partnership project between St. Petersburg State university and Lomonosov State university.

From 2010 on Svetlana is an active member of the organising committee and secretary in charge of the yearly international conference “Actual problems of theory and history of art”, organised by the same collaboration of St. Petersburg State university and Lomonosov State university.

Svetlana is an editor in charge for the “Actual problems of theory and history of art” compendiums that are included into the Russian Science Citation Index e-library.

Research interests

  • Byzantine art

  • Medieval art of the Balkans

  • Architecture and painting of Medieval Russsia

Teaching

  • Structural analysis of monuments

  • Art of the Balkans

  • Historiography of Russian art

  • Historiography of Byzantine art

  • Fundamental aspects of Christian iconography

  • Actual problems of Eastern Christian art

  • Methods of studying architecture

  • Medieval Russian art (for Museum Studies students at Institute of History and Institute of Philosophy)

  • The Method of Historiography in Art History

  • Art of Medieval Serbia (along with A. Zakharova at the Faculty of History, Lomonosov State university)

Publications

Svetlana is a participant of international conferences, seminars, symposiums and congresses:

2014

Byzantium as Christian antiquity.
Authors: A. Zakharova, S. Maltseva
Actual problems of theory and history of art. International conference for young professionals, St. Petersburg State university, State Hermitage, Russia, 2014.

Serbian architecture of the Morava period and architectural traditions of late Byzantium.

Author: S. Maltseva
Problems of general history of architecture NIITAG RAASN: International conference materials, 29–30 May 2014, Moscow, Russia, 2014.

2013

Problem of architectural prototypes and chronology of the Medieval Serbian architecture of the Morava period.
Author: S. Maltseva
XX All Russian session for Byzantine scholars "Byzantium and its heritage in Russia and the world", 2013.

2012

Round church in Preslav. Problem of regional character of Bulgarian architecture of the First Bulgarian Empire.
Author: S. Maltseva
XVII Derzhavin conference: Bulgarian and Slavonic studies. Historical and contemporary problems. International conference, St. Petersburg, Department of history, St. Petersburg State university, Russia, 2012.

Domed basilica and cross-in-square church in the east and the west: research problems on the example of early Croatian and Medieval Serbian architecture.
Author: S. Maltseva
Medieval Christian architecture: Westerns and Eastern traditions. International architectural and archaeological seminar. St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, Russia, 2012

Balkan rotunda churches with multiple apses. Actual research problems.
Author: S. Maltseva.
Actual problems of theory and history of art. International conference for young professionals of St. Petersburg State university and Lomonosov State university, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2012

2011

Medieval Serbian and Russian Architecture: parallels
Author: S. Maltseva.
XXII International congress for Byzantine scholars, Sofia, 2011

Balkans’ impact on the architecture of Medieval Russia: parallels.
Author: S. Maltseva.
Actual problems of theory and history of art. International conference for young professionals of St. Petersburg State university and Lomonosov State university, Lomonosov State university, Moscow, Russia, 2011

Bulgarian architecture: main research problems.
Author: S. Maltseva.
XVI Derzhavin conference: Bulgarian and Slavonic studies. Historical and contemporary problems. International conference, St. Petersburg, Department of history, St. Petersburg State university, Russia, 2011.

Chapels position in Serbian churches of the Empire period.
Author: S. Maltseva.
XIX All Russian session for Byzantine scholars "Russian Byzantine research: traditions and perspectives", Department of History, Lomonosov State university, 2011