Krasota sviatosti i sviatost' krasoty: russkie ikony v dragotsennykh okladakh iz sobranii sem'i Karisalovykh i Muzeia Faberzhe (The beauty of the sacred and the holiness of beauty: Russian icons in precious frames from the collections of the Karisalovs and the Fabergé Museum)
Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2023. Sewn cl. The author, an eminent historian of medieval painting, architecture and applied arts, traces the tradition of making frames for icons from precious metals to sixth-century Byzantium. She then chronicles how icon frames were adopted in Rus' and became part of ecclesiastical art and ritual. She..... More