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"Felskonstruktion" in Ancient Painting. Spatial-Temporal Unity in Painting Art

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the system of representation of space and time in ancient painting. The author attempts to reconstruct the ancient perspective system that is quite different from the modern one. This enables him to account for different sorts of "distortions" in ancient painting ("die umgekehrte perspektivall kinds of deformations, equalization in size, etc.). It is shown in the paper that all these peculiarities of ancient painting are the result of a special perspective system applied (but not of the absence of perspective as is sometimes believed). On this basis it becomes possible to reconstruct real forms of objects represented in a picture as well as their relations in space and time. In the appendix to the article the author demonstrates his conclusions through the analysis of 11 Felskonstruktion" (in Russian "ikonni/e gorki") in Russian icon-painting (abstract "rocky" landscape characteristic of the background in ancient pictures).

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