К системе передачи изображения в русской иконописи
On the Model of Representation in the Russian Icon-Painting

Summary/Abstract: The paper is concerned with problems of formal analysis of ancient Russian icons. An icon is regarded as a piece of text with different kinds of code restrictions imposed. It is possible, in principle to reconstruct real forms of represented objects and their relations in 3-dimensional space proceeding from this text. This implies an analysis of the code of icon-painting and establishing its rules. On one level this is made in L. Zegin's paper (see the present book) analysing formal geometric distortions caused by a special perspective system applied in ancient painting. The present paper is concerned with another level of description which can be called "semantic". It is shown in the paper that the application of perspective distortions depends on the semantic value of represented objects. Semantically important objects are not so much subject to these distortions and are generally treated in a quite special system of representation. The description of the "semantic" system of representation enables the author of the paper to account for a number of peculiarities of the composition of icons.

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