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Icon-Painting in Western Ukraine in the XVth and XVIth c.
The iconographical tradition in Ukraine, which started with the reception of Christianity from Byzantium in the late X – early XI c., continues until the present. However, in some instances this tradition was heterogeneous, and in some historically interrupted. Over more than ten centuries it has undergone tremendous changes of technique, style, and level of professionalism, while having at the same time preserved fundamental continuity based on its deep-rootedness in Orthodox ecclesial life and its association with the Byzantine cultural milieu as well as its organic connection with the culture of the region.
The period of the XV-XVI c. treated here undoubtedly belongs to the most original pages in the centuries-long history of the local iconographical school. From this period we have a remarkably great number of icons preserved, incomparably more than from the previous centuries, and they are distinctive for their high artistic quality.
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