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(2025)This study reconstructs the lost fresco cycles of the Golden (Middle) and Transitional Chambers in the Moscow Kremlin, attributing their execution (c. 1514) to Feodossy and Dmitry, sons of the painter Dionisius. Relying ...
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(2025)This article investigates the role of Sophia Palaeologina in the cultural transmission between Renaissance Europe and Russia. Challenging the historiographical consensus established by N. M. Karamzin and P. Pierling, which ...
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(2025)This article situates the Stoglav Council within the reformist program of Metropolitan Makarii and the «Izbrannaia rada» at the end 40-50s of the 16th century. The study interprets these events through the historiographical ...
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(2025)The relief of the frieze over the Red Porch entrance portal of the Faceted Chamber in the Moscow Kremlin, being the oldest monument of its kind on a secular stone building in Moscow, has been undeservedly ignored by art ...
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(2025)The turn of the 20th century witnessed a profound engagement between Russian culture and the Italian Renaissance. This article examines the scholarship of Vladimir N. Zabughin (1880–1923), a historian and key figure of the ...
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(2025)This study addresses the enduring methodological challenge of defining Renaissance "humanism," tracing the evolution of scholarly interpretations from Burckhardt to the present. Central to this analysis is the juxtaposition ...
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(2025)The study considers the growing importance of the Apocalypse in late 15th-century Russia, attributed to Western influences and eschatological anxiety about the end of the seventh millennium (1492). In particular, the article ...
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(2025)This study presents two sources on the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on the Moat in Moscow (1555-61), more commonly known as St. Basil’s Cathedral, that have so far been neglected in the scholarly debate ...
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(2025)This study analyzes Maximus the Greek’s Tale about the Image called «Sorrow» (Skazanie ob obraze, nazyvaemom Unynie), addressing unresolved issues regarding its origin and sources. The author hypothesizes that the text was ...
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(2025)The Eastern Slavic world also underwent the process of developing the intellectual lexicon of modern languages, that was characteristic of Renaissance culture, thanks in part to the literary output of the Athonite monk ...
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(2025)This study analyzes the travelogue of Francesco da Collo, an imperial envoy to Moscow (1518–1519), focusing on his representation of Eastern European physical geography. Despite the contemporary refutation of the Riphean ...
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(2025)The chapter concerns the role of pact instruments in Magnaghi's scientific and 'field' work, focusing on the potential of institution-building processes based on overcoming paralysing oppositions and activating dynamic ...
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(2025)The essay recalls the roots of bioregionalism and compares its North American interpretations with the Italian territorialist approach, highlighting Alberto Magnaghi's path towards the urban bioregion as a multidisciplinary ...
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(2025)The essay recalls the long 'pursuit' of Alberto Magnaghi from the 1970s until the SdT Convention of 2023, which he worked on until shortly before his death. It shows his role as a reference in eco-urbanism, from his formative ...
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(2025)The territorialist approach and the demands for environmental protection – for self-sustainable local development – are the basis of two original and highly topical works by Alberto Magnaghi: the book he wrote with Franco ...
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(2025)The chapter sheds light about the role and multifaceted relevance of agreement and participatory practices in the framework of territorialist approach to planning. Such a set of experiences is represented in its various ...
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(2025)Analysing the "eco-territorialist stance", the essay shows the importance of an active involvement of local communities in the development and transformation processes of territories. Particular attention is given to the ...
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(2025)Starting from an essay by Magnaghi in which pact instruments are treated in close connection with territorial self-government, the paper argues that they may in themselves represent, under certain conditions, new forms of ...
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(2025)Combining territorialist and eco-feminist approaches, the article focuses on pact instruments as practices of territorial care and self-governance. In the light of the concepts of the territory as common good, ecodependence, ...
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(2025)Agriculture and rurality, forms of settlement, landscapes and food chains are fundamental axes in the diachronic process of territorialization. Therefore, history assumes a crucial role, integrating with other territorial ...
