Zograf 2010 Issue 34, Pages: 137-152
https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1034137S
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The depiction of the Virgin with the Christ in a niche on the western façade of the Church of the Transfiguration in Novgorod and the question of the painter's origin
Starodubcev Tatjana (Akademija umetnosti, Novi Sad)
The paper deals with a presentation of the Virgin with the Christ Child, in
the niche above the archivolt of the western portal of the Church of the
Transfiguration, in Novgorod. The fresco is assumed to have belonged to the
painted ensemble in the church narthex, none of which has survived. It is
also believed that like Theophanes the Greek, who headed the group painting
the naos in the church, the zographos who worked on the decoration of the
narthex, had arrived from Constantinople.
Keywords: Novgorod, the Church of the Transfiguration, wall-painting, the Virgin, narthex, zographos, Constantinople