Icons: Masterpieces of Russian Art
330 x 250 mm (9¾ x 13 in)
192 pages
Hardback with jacket
ISBN 978-1-908126-09-2
Available
£24.95 €29.95 US$39.95
We are proud to offer this important book on icons dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. These sixty icons from the Kolomenskoye State Museum are presented with full descriptions of their origins and symbolic meanings written by a leading specialist in Old Russian art. This book is a valuable resource for art historians, scholars of religious practice, and collectors of icons.
See also: The Moscow State Museum
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Book reviews:
Review by: Sir Richard Temple
"This wonderfully illustrated book will prove highly valuable for English speaking readers for whom there is so little available in English on the later period of Russian icons painting. The author brings meticulous art historical scholarship to the detailed description of Russian icons of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries some of which are published for the first time. Such icons are accessible to western collectors, auction houses and galleries and this book is an important contribution to understanding their historical context, their function and the aesthetic outlook of their creators."