Otkovych T. Iconostasis from the Church of Exaltation of the Holy Cross of Skyt Manyavskyi monastery (Bohorodchany iconostasis). Culturological context.

The research explores iconographic pattern of the iconostasis, traces the origin of the themes of the icons, analyzes their stylistics, and holds attribution of the separate icons in order to establish their authorship (I. Kondzelevych or craftsmen of his circle) as based on the iconographic and stylistic comparative analysis. It explains separate iconographic peculiarities, present in the iconostasis, namely unique themes of frequently apocryphal origin, having no analogues in the Ukrainian icon painting of that times - and among them there are expressive elements of the West European iconography.An ornamental carving as an element of iconostasis from Skyt Manyavskyi is analyzed. Having traced all the elements in the carving of iconostasis we may conclude that one iconographic complex of the ornamental plastics organically combines two different styles that succeeded each other: Mannerism and Baroque. Besides, this carving is an example of gradual transition of Renaissance and Mannerist esthetics into Baroque one, thus confirming that the elements of this style existed in the Ukrainian art as far as the beginning of the XVIІI century. The ornamentation on the pictorial area of the iconostasis is explored. Stylistics of this ornamentation is divided into traditional Ukrainian Post-Byzantine tradition, and West European Renaissance and Mannerist stylistics.