Abstract

The review highlights the topics and issues of the International scientific conference held on December 6, 2021 in the online format between Warsaw and Lviv. The initiators of the conference were researchers of icon painting and practicing artists, participants of the plein airs in Nowy Sącz (Poland), interested in analytical rethinking of the modern religious art. The speakers focused on the history and prospects of the development of sacred art in Ukraine and Poland at the present stage. The conference demonstrated the importance of studying the historical sources of religious art and rethinking the mediums of ancient sacred art in order to actualize them.