Ivan Rutkovych ( uk, Іван Руткович), born c. 1650 in

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, near Zolochiv, Lviv region, Ukraine, died after 1708, was a

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painter who worked mostly in

Zhovkva Zhovkva ( uk, Жовква ; pl, Żółkiew; yi, זאָלקוואַ, translit=Zolkva; russian: Жо́лква, 1951–1992: ''Nesterov'') is a city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine. Zhovkva hosts the administration of Z ...

and

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. He is considered a founder of Zhovkva Iconographic School of painting and wood carving. Some of Rutkovych's work was lost, but there is still a significant amount of well-preserved icons, as well as iconostases, made by Rutkovych together with other masters. There are iconostases of the wooden churches in Volytsia Derevlianska (1680–82), Volia Vysotska (1688–89); the large (10,85 х 11,87 m) iconostasis of the Church of Christ's Nativity in Zhovkva (also known as iconostasis from Nova Skvariava) (1697–99), now in

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. The last is considered as a masterpiece among Ukrainian iconostases of that time. It consists from 7 rows of icons. It was restored and exhibited to the public in 2009. Also in

are preserved separate icons, among them Supplication (1683) from Potelych village, Lviv region. The artistic style of Ivan Rutkovych combines Ukrainian-Byzantine tradition of expressing religious subjects with modern European influences, more secular and realistic. Rutkovych is a most prominent representative of Zhovkva Iconographic School of painting and wood carving. According to art historians,The World Through the Eyes of Folk Artists. Ukrainian Folk Painting of the 13th–19th Centuries. Ed. V.Sventsitska, V.Otkovych. Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 1991, p. 31. in that time new iconographical cannons were established, giving free rein to the artist to reveal his individual style with maximum care for detail. A score of local schools sprang up in

Sudova Vyshnia Sudova Vyshnia ( uk, Судова Вишня) is a town in the Yavoriv district of the Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sudova Vyshnia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is . The town h ...

, Zhovkva, Robotychi, Volyn region and other. The iconostasis of The Holy Trinity Church in Zhovkva shows contribution of different masters, among them Vasyl Petranovych (icon of Savoir, icon of Our Lady), Hnat Stobensky (carving of the Holy Door) and Ivan Rutkovych himself (Annunciation, Christmas, Archangel Michael). The Church is placed on the

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since 2013. In

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and Zhovkva there is the street named after Ivan Rutkovych. Rutkovich died between 1703 and 1708.

Gallery

File:Holy Trinity Church Zhovkva St.Michael.jpg, St. Michael from

Holy Trinity Church, Zhovkva Wooden Holy Trinity Church was built in suburb of Zhovkva, Ukraine in 1720 on the place of a church that burned down in 1717. The structure consists of three wooden naves and a brick sacristy. There is an iconostasis consisting of about 50 icons p ...

File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis 1.JPG, Part of iconostasis from Skvariava Nova,

File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis St.Michael.JPG, St. Michael from Skvariava Nova,

File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis Entry into Jerusalem LNM.jpg File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis Jesus and Samaritan Woman LNM.jpg File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis Jesus the Pantocrator LNM.jpg File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis Road to Emaus LNM.jpg File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis Passion LNM.jpg File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis Transfiguration LNM.jpg File:Rutkovych Skvariava Nova Iconostasis Mandylion LNM.jpg

References

External links

Online encyclopedia of UkraineRoman Zilinko. Ivan Rutkovych`s iconostasis from Zhovkva. Religious Information Service of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
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