blog.area23.at: Neoclassical change with major stylistic breaks in Russian / Serbian Orthodox Christian icons

Neoclassically shine in some cities with different issues

There were neoclassical facade renovations in some cities mostly to attract tourists like in Vienna,or Istanbul, in Russia a neoclassically shine of orthodox churches and former soviet republics like Kyrgyzstan mainly mosques, see:

http://eurasia.travel/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/New-mosque-in-Naryn-1024x683.jpg
https://novastan.org/de/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/02/Image1-3-1300x902-1024x710.jpg

https://www.schwarzaufweiss.de/kirgisien/images/Fotolia_66860636_XS.jpg

Russian orthodox saints icon

In 1990 Orthodox Christianity in Russia freed after 70 years of repression

The style of the new neo-czarist icons of the Russian Orthodox Church changed from the millennium onward.

However, the drawing imagimg of the prophets and their companions, the saints, didn't changed so much everywhere, except in the Russian Orthodox Church.

In contrast to previous Orthodox icons, all images now look more glossy and all saints are surrounded by a golden halo in a differemt style then before.

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