Essays on the history of Christian art. Part II

The second part of the book of art critic and teacher N.F. Borovskaya "Essays on the history of Christian art" includes five chapters on important areas of religious creativity: works for the Old Testament and apocryphal subjects, altar compositions and ensembles of monumental murals of a number of world famous temples, as well as the art of reformation. The issues of symbols, the principles of creating a cycle of plots as a single system and the connection of this system with worship, as well as the problem of interpreting specific plots in the work of great masters of different eras are considered in detail. Continuing a conversation about the spiritual and artistic content of the sacred image, the author answers questions devoted to the important sphere of Christian art, helping people who are far from scientific art