TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weitzmann,Kurt
AU  - Babić,Gordana
AU  - Voinescu,Teodora
AU  - Chatzēdakēs,Manolēs
AU  - Alibegashvili,Gai͡ane Vladimirovna
AU  - Volʹskai͡a,A.I.
TI  - The Icon: The Byzantine Tradition in Europe, Russia and the Near East Through Seven Major Epochs
SN  - 0394525515
AV  - N8187 .I2513 1982
PY  - 1987///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf, Dorest Perss
KW  - English
KW  - Icons
KW  - History
KW  - Christianity and art
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church
KW  - Christian Antiquities الآثار المسيحية
N1  - 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
N2  - Traces the history and evolution of icon over 1,000 years
ER  -