From icon to emblem: the relation of word and image in Lazar Baranovych's Truby sloves propovidnykh na narochityia dni prazdnikov (1674)

The article examines the connection of text and images, specifically religious images printed as engravings in Ukraine during the second half of the seventeenth century, by taking as a case study Lazar Baranovych’s Truby sloves propovidnykh na narochityia dni prazdnikov (Trumpets of the Homiletic Words for Major Feast Days, 1674), a richly illustrated collection of homilies dedicated to Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich and originally intended for sale in Muscovy. My main purpose is to situate the mechanisms regulating the image-text encounter within the wider context of ‘sacred emblematics’ and ‘illustrated sacred discourse’ in Late Renaissance and Baroque Europe.