10th form "The First Artistic Traditions in Ukraine" Grammar

1. When _____ about the development of painting in Ukraine one should remember that the early period referred to icon-painting.

2. The icon-painting began to develop in Kyivan Rus in the 10th century after Prince Volodymyr _____ the state.

3. Icon painters - _____ monks - depicted Christ, the Virgin, angels and saints. Byzantine traditions were a model.

4. Mozaic and frescos of St Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv is one of the ______ among the memorials of that period.

5. Portrait painting as a separate genre appeared during the Renaissance (the 16th century) and was strongly _____ by the icon traditions.

6. The first portraits _____ portrayals of nobles and Cossack chiefs.

7. Ukrainian arts of the middle of the 19th century was ____ connected with the name of T. Shevchenko, who devoted most of his painting to Ukrainian interests.

8. He ____ the father of modern Ukrainian painting.

9. Shevchenko painted numerous portraits, self-portraits and landscapes with many ____ monuments of Ukraine.

10. During the 19th century the landscape painting appeared as a ____ genre, and not only in the works of Shevchenko.

11. Inspired be romanticism, I. Soshenko, A. Kuindzhi, I. Aivazovskyi, and I. Pokhotonov devoted their efforts to ____ rural scenery at it most beautiful.

12. All their names are well-known all _____ the world.