The drawing-artist Feodor Sergeev Basov’s art of the ornamentation: traditions of the early printed style in the decoration of old russiun manuscripts and its rethinking

Abstract

The article is devoted to the headpieces of the early printed style, created by the master of the
manuscript art, scribe and drawing-artist Feodor Sergeev Basov. The author analyses composition of
headpieces, created by Feodor by comparing with headpieces of the early printed books. The results
of the study showed that the most influence on the master was provided book decoration of Apostle
by Ivan Fedorov and Peter Mstislavets 1564. To pioneer the use of the element-structural method for
ornamentation, suggested by N. P. Parfentjev, allowed considering the individual components of the
Feodor’s headpieces, to compare it with the elements of decoration of the early printed books, and
on this basis to identify, which of them have become models for the ornamentation of the master. It
allows analyzing the peculiarities of his art. The author revealed that Feodor Basov not only copied
the headpieces of the Moscow printed books, but also created their own versions of the ornament.