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/ Project of the Church in Ripne /

Yevhen Nahirnyi

Basic information

ID: ФНаг-Лев-Арх-2640
Author: Yevhen Nahirnyi
Name: / Project of the Church in Ripne /
Date of creation: 1931
Technique: drawing
Material: tracing paper Indian ink
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 42 x 40

Additionally

Genre: architecture
Provenance: Nahirnyi-Lev Fund
Place: Ripne village, Ivano-Frankivsk region

Information about author

Author: Yevhen Nahirnyi
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine

Object description

The plan of the wooden church is shown. It is a cruciform building with facetted transept sides, an apse, and an elongated rectangular babynets. Above the transept is a dome, an octagon on a quadrangle, topped by a Baroque onion-shaped cupola with creases. It is surrounded by four octagons of similar but smaller shape. The entrance to the church is through a portal with a curved pediment, the shape of which is influenced by the Art Deco style. It was designed in 1931 and built the following year (Lev Kh., Slobodian V., Filevych N. 100 Churches of the Nahirnyi family. Part Two: Churches of Yevhen Nahirnyi. Lviv, 2015. P. 94).

Inscriptions

Ink signature in the lower right: "Engineer / signature / Yevhen Nahirnyi". A note in pencil at the top right: "Ripne".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery