The Semiotics of the Russian Icon

according actual analogous ancient art ancient icon artistic system Avvakum background BORIS USPENSKY Byzantine characteristic Christ church composition connection conventional conventionality convey correlated Deesis deformations direct perspective drevnerusskoj literatury example external face Feofan Grek foreground foreshortening formal fresco frontal icon hillocks iconostasis ikony interior internal inverted perspective iskusstva istorii Istorija Kunst Leningrad levkas marginal scenes medieval painting miniatures Moscow natural language norm Novgorod objects represented observer Old Believers P. A. Florenskij Patriarch Nikon Paul of Aleppo perceived periphery perspectival pictorial picture podlinniki point of view precisely principle reality relation relatively representational art respect result Rossii Russian icon-painting Russkaja Saint Petersburg Schapiro semantic semiotic significant space spatial specific Stoglav summation Suzdal symbolic system of inverted system of representation Tartu tion Trudy po znakovym turned Uspenskij V. N. Lazarev viewer Virgin visual impression visual position words XVII veka Žegin živopis znakovym sistemam