#cossack baroque

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Beautiful Ukrainian Baroque Angel (Gabriel)

photographed by me in the Trinity Church, part of the Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, 2007

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Zaborovsky`s Gate in Kyiv (built in 1745), 1980

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Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki (Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky, Богдан Зиновій Хмельницький) lesser-known (part 1)

Perhaps the oldest preserved portrait of the famous Ukrainian Cossack Hetman by an unknown artist from the 17th century (oil on canvas, 101 cm X 77 cm).

From the collection of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv (Національний художній музей України), Ж-173.

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Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki (Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky, Богдан Зиновій Хмельницький) lesser-known (part 2)

Portrait of the famous Ukrainian Cossack Hetman by an unknown artist from the 18th century (oil on canvas, 63 cm X 52,5 cm).

From the collection of the National Preserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" (Національний заповідник «Києво-Печерська лавра»), Ж-94.

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Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki (Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky, Богдан Зиновій Хмельницький) lesser-known (part 3)

Portrait of the famous Ukrainian Cossack Hetman by an unknown artist from the 18th century (oil on canvas, 71 cm X 55 cm).

From the collection of the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego), sygn. 537.

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St.Elias` Church Gates in Podil by Mykola Kolomiyets, 1946

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The cover of The Masters of Ukrainian Baroque by Volodymyr Ovsiychuk, 1991

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The XVIIIth century Trinity Cathedral in Novomoskovsk, Dnipro Region, 1928