Golgofskii krest iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii religii (Golgotha Crosses the State Museum of the History of Religion)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2013. pb. This catalogue publishes the Museum's collection of metalwork and wood carving illustrating Christ's sacrifice on the cross—some works are in the form of crosses; others have the cross as a central element in a broader composition. The main sources are churches and monasteries of the Russian North and Old Believer communities like Vyg, where wood carving and wooden sculpture flourished, and they demonstrate the Eastern Orthodox use of the cross as symbol rather than graphic representation of the crucifixion. Most works date to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 99 p., approx. 100 color and b/w illus., Rus. Item #1179
ISBN: 9785793704786
Price: $48.00