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Shvidkodskiy D. O. Aristotele Fioravanti and «old Greek divinely established godliness»

Abstract: the article shows the history of Aristotele Fioravanti as an evidence that Moscow attracted masters of Renaissance Italy, and that in the last quarter of the XV century here came the outstanding figures of Italian construction art of the time. The type of Renaissance culture brought by Fioravanti is analyzed, the evidence of his acquaintance with the leaders of the Byzantine humanism are provided. In the development of architecture of Moscow Kremlin it is traced how the ideal of «old Greek divinely established godliness» was fulfilled with the aborning ideal of the Third Rome during last quarter of the XV century.


Keywords:

history, Aristotle Fioravanti, the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow Kremlin, the church «Russian piety», a new type of temple space, «former Greek divinely instituted piety», Byzantine Humanism, Moscow  — the Third Rome, «historicity » of the Moscow artisticideology, the relationship of national spiritual history of the Byzantine .


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