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1. Latest changes in the conference program: (News); ... 3, MSU Faculty of History): The presentation by Andrey Egorov (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia) "Prayers of the Magistrates: Typology and Decoration Program of German and Netherlandish Town Hall Chapels ...; Created on 02 October 2018
2. Hesychasm and Leonardo da Vinci: (2015 Artistic Culture and Cult); ... of question just by the nature of things. The spiritual profundity can only be achieved as a result of strenuous exercise in prayer, comprehension of exceptional depth of the Holy Scripture, mastering ...; Created on 02 January 2016
3. The Doctrine of Hesychasm and Its Influence on the Style of Late 14th Century Frescoes from the Churches of the Dovmontov Gorod in Pskov. The Problem of Light: (2015 Old Russian Art); ... strokes, applied on bodies of the saints, help to depict the ascetic spirituality. Painters tried to picture the Divine light which transfigured bodies of the saints during their prayer. It means that ...; Created on 02 January 2016
4. Painted Decoration of the Palaeologan Renaissance in Crete: The Wall Paintings of the Panagia in Sklavopoula: (2015 Eastern Christian Art); ... scenes (Nativity, Presentation in the Temple, Betrayal of Judas, Crucifixion, Descent into Hell, Incredulity of St. Thomas, Pentecost), a few scenes from the life of the Virgin (Prayer of St. Anne, Birth ...; Created on 02 January 2016
5. Greek Metrical Epigrams on Byzantine Works of Applied Art in the Context of Byzantine Ekphrasis: (2015 Eastern Christian Art); ... The sequence of the inscription symbolically repeats the prayer’s crossing. Particularly interesting is lexical and semantical analysis of the words’ combination ‘ζωηφόρον πέφυκε τοῦ σταυροῦ ξύλον’ (verbatim: ...; Created on 02 January 2016
6. The Iconography of the “Gesture of Blessing” in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods in the Near East: (2015 Eastern Christian Art); ... Franz Cumont described it as the ‘ritual gesture of the ancient Semites’; most scholars refer to the gesture of blessing while others define it as gesture of omnipotence, prayer, reverence, plea and wish ...; Created on 02 January 2016