The Icon: The Byzantine Tradition in Europe, Russia and the Near East Through Seven Major Epochs Kurt Weitzmann ... [et al.].
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf Dorest Perss 1987Description: 419 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cmISBN: - 0394525515
- 0880291621
- 9780394525518
- N8187 .I2513 1982
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Translation of: Le Icone.: A brilliantly illustrated volume, a large and comprehensive view of the icon through 1000 years. 385 color plates covering 7 cultures: Constantinople; Georgia; Thessalonike, Ohrid, and Serbia; the Crusades; Russia; Crete and Central Greece; Rumania. Broad in scope, splendid in execution, thorough in scholarship. The most comprehensive and beautiful single-volume presentation of this magnificent art form. . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION: The origins and significance of icons -- 1.) The Icons of Constantinople by Kurt Weitzmann -- 2.) The Icons of Georgia by Gaiane Alibegasvili and Aneli Volskaja -- 3.) The Icons of the Balkan Peninsula and the Greek Islands (1) by Manolis Chatzidakis and Gordana Babic -- 4.) The Icons of the period of the Crusades by Kurt Weitzmann -- 5.) The Icons of Russia by Mihail Alpatov -- 6.) The Icons of the Balkan Peninsula and the Greek Islands (2) by Gordana BabicÌ and Manolis Chatzidakis -- 7.) The post-Byzantine Icons of Wallachia and Moldavia by Teodora Voinescu.
Traces the history and evolution of icon over 1,000 years.
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