Czestochowa icon of Holy Mother, (Black Madonna), Poland

There was also folk traditional decorative art of western Ukraine like carpets and Easter eggs (known here as pisankas).

Sculpture was also popular in the kingdom of Galicia-Volynia. Slating reliefs are widely used on churches of Galych and Kholm of that time.

Miniature manuscript is also characteristic of these lands. “Dobrilovo Evangelie” (1164) is the most antient illustrated manuscript, which has 4 miniature paintings of gospellers. Ornaments, initial letters, head ornaments are the main decorative elements of miniature manuscripts here.

Jewellery is often found among the treasures at archaeological excavations. Rings, pendants (подвески), bracelets and other jewellery prove how skillful Galicia-Volynian goldsmiths and silversmiths were. They used different technologies, such as casting (литье), blacksmithing (ковка), stamping (чеканка), gilding (позолота), and inlay (инкрустация).

Culture of Galicia-Volynian Kingdom had great achievements. The samples of this culture are amazing and perfect. Being the part of the Rus’ culture, it is obviously different, because of influence of local conditions and neighbouring countries. Until 1340 Galicia-Volynia enjoyed imdependent rule under Roman, his son Danylo, grandson Lev and descendants, who kept the Mongols at bay and helped Lviv and other cities to flourish. Political control was wrested from this local dynasnty by the Poles and Lithuanians in the 1340s, who split the kingdom between them and used it as a base to expand eastwards into the areas of Ukraine, including Kyiv. However, its brief period of early self-determination seems to have left Galicia-Volynia with a particularly strong taste for Ukrainian nationalism, which is still evident.