Bibleiskaia teatr Martina Engel’brekhta: siuzhety sviashchennoi istorii v zapadnoevropeiskoi knizhnoi graviure / The Biblical Theater of Martin Engelbrecht: Scenes from Sacred History in Western European Book Engraving
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrei Rublev Medieval Russian Art and Culture Museum publishes a recently restored monument of European book art: a mid eighteenth-century Bible engraved by the German artist Martin Engelbrecht. The theme of the research published with the bible is the cross-fertilization between art styles as printing gave icon-painters in Russia access to styles of painting and variants of iconography used in Western Europe. Russian icon-painting had its roots in Byzantium, Kyiv, and early Russian cities like Novgorod, the revolution in book production inevitably brought new sources of inspiration. Two articles put Engelbrecht's work in the context of European book art and identify parallels between Western and Eastern European religious art. Each engraving is exhaustively described in entries that include technique, sources, analogies, inscriptions, and bibliography. 139 p., 28 cm, approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. with title page, captions, and summary in ENGLISH. Item #3084
ISBN: 9785906538079
Chapter titles: Resurrecting a masterpiece; From the Vatican to Uglich via Augsburg.
Price: $57.00