Cossack Baroque (Ukrainian Baroque Painting)
Козацьке бароко
A national variant of Baroque fusing the Byzantine icon tradition with Western European Baroque realism and ornament: monumental gilded iconostases, parsuna portraiture, and the Zhovkva and Kyivan Cave Monastery workshops.
Artists of the Movement
Ivan Rutkovych
1650–1708
Leading Ukrainian Baroque icon painter and founder of the Zhovkva school; master of luminous colour, famous for the 1697–99 Skvariava Nova iconostasis.
Yov Kondzelevych
1667–1740
Ukrainian Baroque icon painter and monastic elder; brought heightened realism and landscape to Eastern iconography. Masterwork: the Bohorodchany (Manyava) Iconostasis (1698–1705).
Works from this Movement
Christ Pantocrator (Skvariava Nova iconostasis)
Ivan Rutkovych
The central icon of Rutkovych's Skvariava Nova iconostasis, a masterpiece of Ukrainian Baroque.
Archangel Michael (Skvariava Nova iconostasis)
Ivan Rutkovych
An icon of the Archangel Michael in Rutkovych's rich Baroque manner.
Archangel Gabriel (Skvariava Nova iconostasis)
Ivan Rutkovych
Mandylion (Saviour Not-Made-by-Hands)
Ivan Rutkovych
Dormition of the Mother of God
Yov Kondzelevych
An icon from the Bohorodchany Iconostasis depicting the Dormition of the Virgin with the apostles.
Bohorodchany (Maniava) Iconostasis
Yov Kondzelevych
Christ the Teacher
Yov Kondzelevych
The icon of Christ the Teacher from the Bohorodchany Iconostasis, notable for its refined modelling.