GATEWAY CHURCHES OF VELIKY NOVGOROD MONASTERIES IN 12–15th CENTURIES
DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2017-1-27-40
The article focuses on the history of the building of gateway churches in Veliky Novgorod monasteries in the 12–15th centuries. The current paper analyses the typological specifics of gateway churches. The article describes semiotic diversification of this typical church. Besides the defensive function the semiotic role of a gateway church as the boundary between spaces is emphasized in the article. It is considered that a gateway church is built into a certain visual semiotics of the monastery. The paper gives an overview of Veliky Novgorod and it’s suburb monasteries as semiotical multilayer structure which safeguarded the ancient town.
Keywords: gateway church, architecture of ancient Russia, monastery, architecture of Novgorod, semiotics of architecture
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Issue: 1, 2017
Series of issue: Issue 1
Rubric: ARTICLES
Pages: 27 — 40
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