Ornamental carvings in the Cossack culture of the Baroque period Cover Image

Декоративне різьблення в козацькій культурі доби Бароко
Ornamental carvings in the Cossack culture of the Baroque period

Author(s): Victoriia Mykolayivna Pishchanska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Aesthetics
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: spiritual culture of the Ukrainian Cossacks; religious and aesthetic syncretism; sacred art; ornamental carving; artistic and stylish peculiarities of the Cossack Baroque;

Summary/Abstract: Artistic and stylistic features of Cossack carving as one of the most common kinds of decorative and applied arts of Ukrainian Baroque period are considered. In terms of crossing culturology and study of art revealed the figurative and symbolic nature of the compositional, ornamental and plastic features of decorative carvings of the XVII–XVIII centuries. It is proved that the stylistics of the Cossack carving formed on the basis of religious and aesthetic syncretism, under the influence of ethnic and cultural foundations of Ukrainian applied arts, all-European Baroque tendencies and spiritual culture of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 193-200
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Ukrainian