Ikony Velikogo Novgoroda XI – nachala XVI veka / Novgorod the Great Icons of the 11th – Early 16th Centuries, 9785944314369; XI-- XVI
Moscow: Vifaniia / Severnyi palomnik, 2021 (1st ed. 2008). Sewn cl. The works of icon-painting deriving from the Novgorod area have several distinguishing traits: "extraordinary dignity, nobility, and exceptional spareness of artistic style," as Engelina Smirnova writes in her introduction. The role of instructing and inculcating doctrine in a region..... More