Abstract
The article investigates into the influence of the „ritual war” of the 1860s on the formation of an authentic center of church painting in the western Ukrainian lands of the second half of the nineteenth century by the example of the creative life of prominent artists. Much attention is paid to one of the consequences of the 1855 concordat between Austria and the Vatican, which was the „ritual war” of the Greek Catholic Church in the 1860 s. The long-term activity of the clergy to purify the Greek rite in the Greek Catholic Church is detailed. The role of artists in the development of church painting and the individual approach of Oleksandr Rachynskyi, Kornyl Ustiianovych and Kornyl Romanovskyi to rethinking the traditions of Ukrainian icon painting of past centuries is revealed. It is proved that by studying the history of Ukrainian and Western European art they contributed to a new approach to pictorial-compositional and figurative-semantic solutions of church painting, they rethought ancient traditions with due regards to the requirements of their time.
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