Medvedeva, Maria V. Decorative Painting of the Demetra Crypt at Kerch as an Object of Documentary Fixation. The Destiny of Watercolours, Drawings and Photographs

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Title Decorative Painting of the Demetra Crypt at Kerch as an Object of Documentary Fixation. The Destiny of Watercolours, Drawings and Photographs
Author email pharc@mail.ru
About author Medvedeva, Maria Vladimirovna — Ph. D., head of the Archives. Institute for the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaia nab., 18, 191186 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
In the section Art and Artistic Culture of the Ancient World. Archaeological Object and a Work of Art: Their Similarities and Differences DOI10.18688/aa177-1-17
Year 2017 Volume 7 Pages 159–168
Type of article RAR Index UDK 902/904; 77.03; 7.021 Index BBK 85.103(0)321
Abstract

The Demeter crypt in Kerch is one of the few painted antique crypts discovered in the 19th — early 20th century in the North Black Sea region, which have survived till nowadays. Unfortunately, unique frescos that decorate the funeral construction were severely damaged in the 20th century. Thus, documents of various types of fixation (watercolours, drawings, photographs) made at the time of the crypt’s discovery and later at different stages of its study, should be considered as an extremely important source for comprehensive analysis of fresco images of the Demeter crypt. The main complex of documents is kept at the Archives of the Institute forthe History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences. Some of the documents still remain unpublished.Thus, it is very important to make their complete description and introduce them to scholarly circulation taking their special informative value into consideration. It is especially significant because of their centenary age and also because of partial loss of the murals in the Demeter crypt. Systematization and analysis of documents have made it possible to find out the dates of their creation, to define more precisely the names of the artists — illustrators and cameramen, to trace the destiny of watercolours, drawings and photos of the murals.
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Reference Medvedeva, Maria V. Decorative Painting of the Demetra Crypt at Kerch as an Object of Documentary Fixation. The Destiny of Watercolours, Drawings and Photographs. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 7. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2017, pp. 159–168. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa177-1-17
Publication Article language russian
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