UDC 7.046 Svitlana Olianina Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.ORCID ID 0000-0002-0628-146X DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.146-160 Keywords: Ukrainian art 17th–18th century, iconography of Christ, footstool symbolism, eschatology, liturgical imagery. Abstract. This article investigates the formal and symbolic transformations of the footstool beneath the enthroned images of Christ in Ukrainian art…Continue reading The footstool of the Divine throne in Ukrainian art of the 17th–18th centuries: iconography, symbolism

UDC 7.046 Svitlana Olianina National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv.ORCID ID 0000-0002-0628-146X DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-25-2024-1.110-123 Keywords: icons, iconostasis, Dormition Cathedral of Yelets Monastery in Chernihiv. Abstract. The article publishes for the first time archival photos of the icons of the lost iconostasis of the 1670s of the Dormition Cathedral of the…Continue reading Lost icons from the iconostas of the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Yelets Monastery (photo by Stephan Taranushenko)

Abstract. This paper aims to substantiate the hypothesis that the design of the architectural and decorative organization of iconostases of the second half of the seventeenth — first half of the eighteenth centuries is based on the symbolic concept of the iconostasis as an image of a paradise garden.