Francysk Skaryna's Portrait | Laboratory of Francysk Skaryna Studies

Exhibition “Francisk Skorina. Renaissance intellectual between Prague and Vilnius (1470-1552)”. UNESCO World Heritage project in the Czech Republic dedicated to Belarus

June 1, 2021December 7, 2021 Olga Shutova 500 years of Skaryna’s Bible, Book printing, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Prague, The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

UNESCO World Heritage Mission is dedicating its project in the Czech Republic to Belarus. As part of this project, eighteen

Фронтиспис И. Лемешкин «Портрет Франциска Скорины. К 550-летию со дня рождения книгоиздателя (1470–2020)»

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A remarkable event in Francysk Skaryna Studies: Ilya Lemeshkin’s monograph on the portrait of Francysk Skaryna

February 26, 2021January 10, 2022 Olga Shutova 500 years of Skaryna’s Bible, Belarusian press, Christian symbolism, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Prague, Prague Bible of 1488., self-representation, textual analysis, The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

We are pleased to announce the publication of Ilya Lemeshkin’s book: Илья Лемешкин – Ilja Lemeškinas – Il’ja Lemeškin. Портрет

National Library of Belarus, October 2020. Photo: O. Shutova

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About intellectual landscape of Francysk Skaryna’s «Bible Rus’»: Belarus, the history of ideas and the Round Table «Francysk Skaryna’s studies in France

November 22, 2020February 26, 2021 Olga Shutova Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, self-representation

The National Library of Belarus has become, despite all the skeptics, one of the main tourist attractions of Minsk. The

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Sergey Temchin. Calvary cross over the Old Testament tabernacle in the engraving portrait of Francysk Skaryna

September 23, 2020February 8, 2023 Sergey Temchin "Trapezium sign" on Francysk Skaryna's portrait, Calvary cross, Christian symbolism, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, self-representation

Published: Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės kalbos, kultūros ir raštijos tradicijos. Temčinas S. et al. (red.). Vilnius, 2009 (Bibliotheca Archivi Lithuanici, vol.

The Golgotha Cross, 16th c.

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Olga Shutova. «… So that my brothers Rus’ while reading, may understand better»: «in-deapth reading» and Francysk Skaryna’s symbolism

November 1, 2019August 11, 2020 Olga Shutova Christian Kabbalah, Early printed books, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Golgotha cross, Hebrew alphabet, Pico della Mirandola, self-representation, trapezium with cross, triangle A-T

Published: Францыск Скарына: новыя даследаванні / Цэнтр. навук. б-ка імя Якуба Коласа Нац. акад. навук Беларусі; уклад. Аляксандр Груша; рэдкал.:

1517b version: the fly with 5 legs. Библиотека Академии Наук, НИОРК, 994 СП

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Ilya Lemeshkin. The (un)expected guest on F. Skórin’s portraits

September 5, 2019September 19, 2019 Ilya Lemeshkin Bibliographic description, Early printed books, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, musca depicta, self-representation, textual analysis, trompe-lʼœil

Published in: Berkovskie chteniya. Berkov Readings: Book culture in the context of international contacts. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference.

Left: Francysk Skaryna's portrait. Kniga premudrosti Iisusa, syna Sirahova [Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach]. Prague: Francysk Skaryna, 1517. P. 82r. Right: Salomon, fragment. Calendarium. Venetia: Nicolo de Balager (Nicolaus dictus Castilia), 1488; Quot. here is 1511 edition, from Horologio della sapientia et meditationi sopra la passione delnostro signore Iesu Christo vulgare (Venetia: S. da Lovere, 1511)

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Olga Shutova. Francysk Skaryna’s Bible and Italie: sources, influences and inspirations

September 3, 2019September 7, 2019 Olga Shutova Biblia Italica 1471, Biblia vulgare istoriata 1490, colophons, Examinations in Padua, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait, Paduan-Venetian Style, Vernacular

Published in: Berkovskie chteniya. Berkov Readings: Book culture in the context of international contacts. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference.

Титульный лист. Compilatio Leupoldi Ducatus [О. Ш. : компиляция Иоганна Сакробоско] austrie filis de astrorum scientia decem continentis tractatus. Pavia, 1513. Source : Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Title page. Compilatio Leupoldi Ducatus [О. Ш. : компиляция Иоганна Сакробоско] austrie filis de astrorum scientia decem continentis tractatus. Pavia, 1513. Source : Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Olga Shutova. Once again on Francysk Skaryna’s portrait, or the Importance of “reading” the engravings (author’s cut)

April 5, 2019April 14, 2020 Olga Shutova Bartolomeo Sanvito, Christian symbolism, Examinations in Padua, Francysk Skaryna, Francysk Skaryna Studies, Francysk Skaryna's Portrait

Published in Belarus: Крынiцазнаўства i спецыяльныя гостарычныя дысцыплнны. Рэд. О. Л. Лiпнiцкая, С. М. Ходзiн. Мiнск: Выд. Белдзяржунiверсiтэта, 2015. This