THE COMPOSITIONAL ROLE OF LANDSCAPE IN RUSSIAN ICON-PAINTING (SECOND PART OF XVIITH - FIRST THIRD OF XVIIITH CENTURIES)
Central Andrey Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art) The article is dedicated to one aspect of researching elaborated landscape backgrounds, appeared in Russian icon painting in the second half of the 17th century. New forms replaced traditional nature images on the icons. The landscape of a new type can play different compositional role in icons: landscape as a background; landscape, which includes hagiographical scenes; landscape, containing the main subject; landscape fragment in an arch of doorway architecture. Depending on the compositional role, connection of the main subject of the icon with a landscape changes.