Painting of temples and restoration of paintings and frescoes

A beautifully painted temple becomes not just a place for worship - it is a place where you can truly relax your soul and enjoy the creativity of artists. The solemnity and beauty of such a temple is a guarantee that parishioners will forget about their worldly affairs and become closer to God. Therefore, the temple should be painted not by parishioners, but by professional artists.

Temple painting is one of the most ancient forms of art, and it can be very diverse. Temples are decorated with both frescoes in the Old Russian style and academic painting.

The Old Russian style appeared in Rus’ in the 10th-12th centuries. And even now in the oldest Russian churches you can see frescoes made in this style. The Old Russian style retained the features of classical Byzantine, but in many ways it is unique. From the classical, he adopted the main features - nobility, harmony and clarity of composition, but later he acquired his own - simplicity, picturesqueness and poetry, and also got rid of the severity and even some gloominess characteristic of Byzantine painting. The most striking example of the Old Russian style are the frescoes of Theophanes the Greek, which have been preserved to this day in some ancient churches and temples.

Subsequently, church painting experienced a period of revival. The style became more magnificent, elegant and large-scale, and also focused on the aristocracy, and not on the common people. From this, the frescoes and canvases became truly huge and detailed (sometimes excessively). Light and gentle colors reigned in the painting, making the canvases sophisticated and graceful, and at the same time joyful.

By the end of the 19th century, the classical direction of Russian religious painting had formed, which absorbed all the best features of all previous styles. From now on, churches are decorated with canvases of light and gentle tones, combining joy, tenderness and harmony, classical proportions, and understandable and pleasant to both the common man and the intelligentsia. In addition, the paintings acquired features of psychologism, but not oppressive, but uplifting psychologism.

Artists of the Kitezh creative workshops not only paint churches on their own - they undergo serious training, which includes studying all styles of religious painting and work a lot with cultural heritage monuments. Therefore, the restoration of paintings carried out by artists makes it possible to preserve all the features of the paintings in their original form, which means bringing the temple to the state it was many centuries ago. And painting the new church will make it more solemn, beautiful and pleasant for parishioners.