Aspects of the Influences of the Balkan Peninsula in the Medieval Russian Wall Paintings

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26284025
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Masuda Tomoyuki 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (70257236)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 浅野 和生 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80167890) ; 伊藤 怜 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 助手 (90647843)
• Research Collaborator: TAKEDA Kazufumi 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 助手 ; SUGAWARA Hirofumi 金沢大学, 歴史言語文化学系, 准教授 ; TSUJI Eriko 共立女子大学, 聖心女子大学, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ビザンティン美術 / 中世ロシア美術 / 聖堂装飾プログラム / キリスト教図像学 / 中世ジョージア美術 / イコン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We made a survey of the medieval churches with wall paintings in Russia and Georgia, and analyzed their decoration program. Comparing with churches in the Balkan peninsula (Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania), on which we have researched in the previous surveys, we analyzed in detail the aspects of influences of the Balkan peninsula to the medieval Russian cultural areas.
As a result, some uniquities in the Russian church decoration have been defined, and on the contrary, a few phenomena that Russia was operative to the Balkan peninsula was demonstrated.
Balkan iconographies was, via the hands of Theophanes (Feofan Grek) or Manuel Eugenikos, made root by Andrei Rublev and others in the land of Russia, and they were succeeded to the decoration program of Dionisi.

Free Research Field

西洋美術史