Restoration of the appearance of the private church of saint john the gospel in the town of lyubeshiv, volyn region according to iconographic

Abstract

The article is devoted to the approach to restoring the appearance of the object, which was destroyed more than 50 years ago, and is depicted only in iconographic sources. The authors of the photographs systematize the assessment of the visual and artistic content of the historical space, the architectural sophistication of the building of the Church of the Feasts of St. John the Evangelist in the urban-type settlement of Lyubeshiv. Lithographic sources provide a conditionally artistically interpreted view of the space with preserved visual dominants. Clarifications and comparisons with research plans revealed significant discrepancies between iconographic sources. The interior of the shrine could compete with European temples. It was opened in 1786.

In the 1960s, the Soviet authorities decided to destroy the unique church.

The purpose of this article is to outline the method of working with available lithographic and descriptive sources to model the architectural space of the church of PR in the period from 1916 to 1969. The modeling of the temple by the surrounding city provides information on the scale of the object, the degree of its spatial change and destruction, the location of the object in the space of the modern city of Lyubeshiv.

The Church of St. John the Evangelist is completely destroyed, and its territory is limited by the development of a modern village, it is almost impossible to see the remains of the foundations of the historic building. The recreation area absorbed the remains of the foundation of the temple, where it was once located, under its earth mounds and tree roots. The planning drawings of the site preserve the only building of the previous historical period – the Monastery of Public Relations, which is currently a marker for the localization of historical planning.

Conclusion. Restoring the appearance of the ruined Church of St. John the Evangelist within available and published sources is an attempt to capture the same artistic nuance of the nineteenth century. This visual-spatial reconstruction is based only on iconographic and fragments of descriptive sources, which are also limited resources to restore the holistic appearance of the environment. There is currently no evidence of the decoration of the balcony for the body, stairways, Perhaps in the future the study will be supplemented.