ЦИКЛУС БОГОРОДИЧИНОГ АКАТИСТА У ПРИПРАТИ МАНАСТИРА НОВО ХОПОВО И ЊЕГОВО ИКОНОГРАФСКО ПОРЕКЛО
THE AKATHIST CYCLE DEDICATED TO THE HOLY VIRGIN IN THE NARTHEX OF THE NOVO HOPOVO MONASTERY AND ITS ICONOGRAPHIC ORIGIN

Summary/Abstract: In the narthex of the Novo Hopovo Monastery katholikon, painted in 1654, there is the Akathist cycle dedicated to the Holy Virgin, with 20 out of the 24 original scenes preserved today. There are only basic descriptions of the scenes of the cycle in the literature, without an attempt to more precisely determine their iconographic origin. By analyzing the iconographic material, it is concluded that the formation of the Novo Hopovo cycle of the Akathist to the Holy Virgin was mainly influenced by the Russian model. However, due to some inconsistencies in the arrangement of the scenes themselves, as well as in their iconographic appearance, in comparison with examples of the Akathist to the Holy Virgin in Russian wall painting and icon painting, it is determined that graphic representations from the Lenten Triodion, printed in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in 1627, served as immediate models for the painter. Also, on the example of iconographic similarities between the painting of the initial scenes of the Novo Hopovo cycle and the cycle realized in 1652 in the Monastery of the Transfiguration in Driovun, the Linotopian origin of the Novo Hopovo masters is confirmed.

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