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Dioscuri is the name given to the two twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus (Dios), born of his union with Leda. They had Helena and Clytaemnestra as sisters. But as Leda was the wife of mortal Tyndareus, the king of Lacedaemon, her children were also called Tindaris. And because Leda had met the same night with Zeus, who had taken the appearance of a swan, and with her husband, the two pairs of twins who came out of her eggs were assigned both to Zeus and to Tyndareus: Helena and Pollux - born with Zeus ...

Bach's genius could be discovered rather in those features of musical language that are no longer contiguous to the pathway initiated by tradition, in those novel solutions which, in spite of displaying a high degree of novelty, are way ahead of their time, foreshadowing evolutions that will become habitual in another stylistic period. One of the elements of the musical language that Bach excels at is harmony which he masters like no other from among his contemporaries. Often a visionary through his manner of appr...

The paper aims to map the roots of the Unity of the Brethren, a religious movement whose origins date back to reform religious thinking represented, e.g. by John Wycliffe in England. The text mentions the key moments in the history of the Unity of the Brethren, notices the influences and contacts with Martin Luther in Germany and later Jean Calvin in Geneva and focuses on the development trends within the church itself. It especially points out the trend towards humanistic traditions of education, scholarship, lit...

The aim of my essay is to introduce a key feature of Miklos ErdelyВ’s oeuvre originating in conceptual art: the modelling of repetition, remembering, and time-travel. While the most salient oeuvre of Hungarian neo-avantgarde is categorized by art historians according to the media technologies applied in the artworks, ErdelyВ’s allround life-work can be best understood through this continuously modified intellectual horizon. Following these range of ideas will lead us to the recognition of the extraordinary charact...

The goal of this paper is to point out some of the mosaic monuments in the Czech Republic as a casuistry of rescue actions and restoration treatments as a response to frequent ignorance or in utmost cases the demolition of mosaic art. Despite a slowly increasing interest in mosaic heritage in recent years the full recognition of mosaics, including the ones from the communist era, as a valuable legacy of the past, still has not taken place. For this purpose the association Art a Craft Mozaika was founded in 2012. W...

At the end of the Romanic period, painting was still considered a less important art, used only to decorate certain surfaces for which there were no broader or richer methods of coverage. The ordinary painter's duty was to only color the sculptures created by other hands or to decorate the walls. In this sittuation we can tell that the most appreciated form of painting was the one made by generations of monks in their writing rooms (scritoria). That was the place where they were illustrating their manuscripts with...

The article deals with the history of Spanish art exhibitions in Russia from the 19th century up to nowadays. The turning points of this history are closely related to the social, cultural and political situation both in Russia and in the world. It proves the relevance of one of the basic principles of art studies about the certain dependence of art research on the general cultural and ideological policy of the state. The article describes the first Spanish art exhibitions in Russia in the 19th – the early 20th ...

The icon is defined in the orthodox tradition as the Bible of the low literate, reason for which, in just a few colors it is synthesized important attitudes and events. The look of the believer is inevitably attracted by the face of Jesus and/or of the saints, for finding out and memorize easier the message of the Evangel. The icon "The Judgement of the Pontius Pilate 1829", kept in the Alexander Nevsky Crypt Museum, is an atypical one: Jesus is hard to find between the negative characters, dressed atypical and ke...