The dissertation is dedicated to the complex history of the Kyiv-Lavra church-art school of the XVIII – early XIX centuries and albums of drawings. In the dissertation work were analyzed and systematized the historiography of the problem, the source base.
The state of preservation of the source base in Ukraine is not sufficient today. Because a lot of archival sources were destroyed or taken to Moscow. However, the safed sources were used in the study of the history of icon-painting workshop and albums of drawings. The saved sources were used from the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Kyiv (fund 128) and the Institute of Manuscripts of the Volodymyr Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (fund 229). It helped to explore the history of icon-painting workshop and works of art. Moreover, the study of lavra drawings made it possible to see not only the uniqueness of the plots, but also the educational process and the owners of the albums.
A lot of methods from different disciplines were used to study this issue – history, art history, culturology. In historical methods – historical-systemic, historical-comparative and paleographic. In art history and cultural methods – iconological, attributive.
The scientific novelty is that was investigated history activities of the Lavra icon-painting workshop since beginning existence that is from the XIth century and in the XVIIIth century. It was found that this institution was called a in ukrainan malyarnya. In icon-painting, the leading position had by superiors who had artistic skills and other skills. It was investigated new names and years of management of icon-painting workshop chiefs. These chiefs were Ivan Maksymovych, Feoktist (Teoktit) Pavlovsky, Olimpiy Halyk, Roman, Ignat, Pakhomiy, Volodymyr, Zakhariy Holubovsky.
For the first time were published and analyzed a list of the property of the icon-painting workshop and chiefs. This indicates that the chiefs were very wealthy, so at icon-painting workshop had all tools for study and work.
For the first time in this work, some drawings were published. These are the drawings where it was written in what color, paint, it was necessary to paint the drawings. Thanks to these inscriptions, it was established that the color of these drawings, as well as ukrainian icons of that time, paintings in ukrainian churches were very bright, rich, in contrast to muscovite icon-painting. In some of these drawings, the authorship and belonging of the entire album to one author were established. In addition, for the first time, text notes of students and masters of the Lavra were published, which related to various topics – religious, philosophical, informational and everyday topics.
The translation of Ukrainian names of paints, substances and colors has been supplemented. It was found that some words were of both Ukrainian and European origin. The dissertation substantiates the value, uniqueness, role and significance of the lavra albums, which were created in the Lavra icon-painting workshop. The practical significance of the results of the dissertation research is that the research can be use as a separate topic or subject on the history of ukraine, history of ukrainian culture, history of ukrainian economics, history of the old ukrainian language in the universities. These materials can be use in textbooks, and drawings – as a model for a new impetus to the development of ukrainian baroque art, both in Ukraine and abroad.
Key words: art, baroque, icon-painting, painting, painting, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, "kuzhbushki", history of Ukraine.
