Portrait Motifs of the Daughters of Yaroslav the Wise in the Artistic Tradition of the 11th – 21st Centuries

The purpose of the article is to trace the stylistic features and the artistic language evolution of the portrait motifs of the daughters of Yaroslav the Wise based on the analysis of the fine arts works of the 11th – 21st centuries. The main methodological principles of the article are the system approaches of mutually complement methods: theoretical (analysis of art sources), empirical and theoretical (theoretical and art analysis of artistic content). The scientific novelty of the article. A thourough analysis of the stylistic features of the artistic language of the portrait motifs of the daughters of Yaroslav the Wise was carried out. The authors of the article made a conceptualization of the material gathered by the art historians, the considerable part of which has not been compiled into one system till now. Conclusions. To this day, there is no single work of that time that could present a faithful image of any members of Yaroslav the Wise’s family. The works of art that are mentioned in this study do not reflect the true appearance of the queens and are the imagination of artists. The works of art that we found were created against the backdrop of significant and heterogeneous socio-historical processes that took place in Europe for a long time, which, in turn, influenced the formation of the images of these people. The portrayal of these figures was formed in the context of the interaction of objective and subjective processes in society, which naturally found reflection in works of art. Learning the achievements of the historical and cultural European heritage should open up new perspectives for the scientific and artistic development of this topic. Further research will be of general cultural significance,  which will intensify relations between many European countries and give inspiration to artists on the way to search for updated ideas of images of European queens of the 11th century.