... compositions on mythological theme (in particular, it is true for the “Liberation of Andromeda”, ca. 1510–1513, The Uffizi, Florence; “A Satyr mourning over a Nymph”, ca. 1495, the National Gallery, London). ...
... compositions with a diversified programme like in “Parnassus” by Andrea Mantegna painted for Isabella d’Este’s studiolo at Mantua. It seems true that the apogee of the theme was reached in Raphael’s “Parnassus”, ...
Yulia Zvezdina
Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia
Many works of the Renaissance masters show close attention to the peculiarities of the decor interpretation. Often compositions include garlands. ...
... meanings. The sanctuary wall composition appears to be the axis of the mariologic cycle. Madonna’s image is presented three times on its vertical line. The core is an upper scene of the Ascension of Our ...
... Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries. The basic compositional scheme comprises the enthroned Virgin holding the Christ Child and flanked on either side by saints. The figures coexist in a unified space ...
... of basilicas in Trani, Bari and Barletta. It would be useful to look at some early examples, for it can be seen that both the general composition and single figures have a very respectable ancestry. One ...
... known and described in literature (primarily engravings of the Piscator’s Bible and related publications). However F. I. Buslaev already observed that some compositions in a certain cycle of Russian miniatures ...
... St. Michael Cathedral in Pereyaslavl and Borisoglebskiy Cathedral in Chernigov. The composition in these monuments is made from many small pieces, and includes expensive prestigious materials: marble in the ...
... the Caucasus and the Middle Danube in the 7th century AD.
By analogy based on the location of anthropomorphic and symmetrical zoomorphic images on fibulas the composition is reconstructed. It can be related ...
... both the compositional and structural elements. One of the most interesting examples of such a synthesis is the church of Pantocrator at Dečani. The exterior of the church looks typical of the so called ...