STIL UND BEDEUTUNG: ÜBER KONKURRIERENDE RENAISSANCEMODELLE IN DER POLARISIERTEN WELT DES KALTEN KRIEGES

The main subject of this article is the texts of Soviet (and Soviet Estonian) art historians to Renaissance art at the time of Stalin to the thaw period - the period of the Cold War in the years 1945 - the 1965. They are compared with the texts that have been published on the opposite side of the iron curtain. The renaissance art history of both ideological camps had many similarities, because the treatise framework has been formed by the artistic discourse developing in the West since the 19th century.