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The Mongol invasion was unable to completely extinguish cultural life in Russia. In the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, there was a movement to restore Russian towns. Several works fr...
Frescoes are paintings made directly onto the wet plaster of a wall or ceiling ( fresco is Italian for “fresh”). The greatest medieval Russian painters of frescoes were Andrei Rublev and Dionysius.
Ecclesiastical art represents almost seven centuries of Russian culture. Until the start of the eighteenth century, art in Russia was mainly based on religious notions of the world. Early Russian his...