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    Home » Interesting Facts about Glass » MOSAIC OF KYIV SOPHIA CATHEDRAL

    MOSAIC OF KYIV SOPHIA CATHEDRAL

    The whole world knows the Kyiv Sophia Cathedral, preserved to our time. Its majestic architecture suggests that our ancestors, who lived during the time of Kyiv Rus, were able to create excellent works of art.

     Kyiv Sophia Cathedral
    Kyiv Sophia Cathedral

     Kyiv in those days competed with the capital of the Byzantine Empire - Constantinople. And for Kyiv masters to be inferior to Byzantine artists was not at all becoming!

    Decorating St. Sophia Cathedral, the ancient masters very skillfully used glass. They covered the walls of the temple with paintings of small pieces of colored opaque glass. Such glass is called smalt. And paintings made from pieces of smalt are called mosaics.

    Mosaic is a difficult and ancient art. It was known by the Romans. During the excavation of the tragically dead Pompeii, houses were found where the floors were decorated with bright mosaic patterns. In one house on the floor, they found a big picture. It depicts the battle of the Greeks with the Persians.  Alexander the Great is at the head of the Greeks. Reared up horses, bright clothes of warriors...

     Mosaic of Kyiv Sophia Cathedral
    Mosaic of Kyiv Sophia Cathedral

    Similar mosaic paintings adorn the walls of St. Sophia Cathedral. They most often depict saints, scenes from biblical legends. The faces of the saints, their clothes are conveyed in such colorful shades that an unforgettable impression is created. And what a wonderful mosaic floor was discovered by the scientists who examined the cathedral! It was closed in later centuries by brick tiles, and even later by cast-iron plates. But when all this was taken away, a shining carpet woven from multi-colored pieces of glass opened up to the eyes of scientists...

    Undoubtedly, ancient Kyiv should have had its own glass masters, just as the masters of other specialties lived and worked in it.
    Margaret
    Interesting Facts about Glass
    Thursday, November 21, 2019

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