Drevnerusskoe iskusstvo: issledovaniia i attributsii (Early Russian Art: Research and Attribution)
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1997. Sewn cl. A rich collection of articles by art historians on general subjects and specific topics: the materials and techniques of medieval painters; the artists and the miniatures of the Byzantine Gospels of Karahissar; a relief icon of the seventeenth century from Constantinople; late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century silver reliquaries; a late sixteenth-century icon of the Dormition; murals at Alexandrova Sloboda; icon miniatures and manuscript illumination in Ivan the Terrible's reign; the political content of a sixteenth-century icon; a Novgorod iconostasis of the 1550s and what it says about styles of icon-painting; frescoes of the post-Dionysian period; attribution of churches to Italian architects working in Moscow during Vasilii III's reign; embroidered work of the fifteenth century; poetic imagery of icons of the Virgin; an early fifteenth-century illuminated Gospel; Russian silver work of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century; restoration of fifteenth-century icon frames; Byzantine asceticism in the imagery of fourteenth-century art 484 pp., 8 1/2 x 11 ins., 264 b-&-w illus., sewn cl., Rus. with summaries in ENGLISH. Item #3803
ISBN: 5860070713
Price: $65.00