die Mape und die Bilder sind altersbedingt fleckig, Kantenbestoßungen, Old Russian painting underwent its greatest period of development from the second half of the fourteenth Century tili the beginning of the sixteenth jntury. The best works of this period by masters of the Pskovian, Novgorodian and Muscovite schools are remarkable for their spiritual maturity and artistic perfection. Without radically changing the artistic System they inherited from Byzantium, they discoved in it new possibilities for the expression of their own aesthetic and moral Ideals. This was the time of `heophanes the Greek, Andrei Rubliov, Daniel Chorly, and Dionysius. (aus der Mappe) 3m6b