The Russian icon : from its origins to the sixteenth century / Viktor Nikitich Lazarev ; edited by G.I. Vzdornov ; translated from the Italian by Colette Joly Dees ; English text edited by Nancy McDarby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazarev, Viktor Nikitich, 1897-1976.

Contributor:

Vzdornov, Gerolʹd Ivanovich.

McDarby, Nancy.

Standardized Title:

Russkai͡a ikonopisʹ. English

Language:

English

Italian

Russian

Subjects (All):

Icon painting--Russia (Federation).

Icon painting.

Russia (Federation).

Icons, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Edition:

English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, [1997]

Summary:

Russian icons are a "rediscovery" of the twentieth century. It was only after they had been cleaned of repainting and dark varnishes that their intrinsic value appeared, permitting people to study them scientifically and once again experience their true spiritual power and depth.

Here, 224 pages of stunning full-color prints of Russian icons combine with 140 pages of descriptive text to create a brilliant and memorable work on Russian iconography and an exploration of the Konic contents of Russia's great museums.

Viktor Lazarev, the acknowledged master, teacher, and critic of Russian fine art, wrote the original manuscript in the restrictive environment of the 1970s.Updated in 1995 by a collaborating editor, and paired with unprecedented photography only now possible in a post-confederation world, this volume provides a rich history of the Russian icon from its origins in the eleventh century to its golden age in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and ending with its rapid decline in the sixteenth century.

Lazarev describes the dawn of national panel painting; technique and aesthetics of Russian icons; main schools of icon painting; and discusses individual artists and their best works. One chapter is dedicated to the history of the discovery of Russian icons and to the major scholars who dealt with Russian iconography. The text also incorporates Lazarev's observation of the techniques used in restoring the art.

An appendix providing detailed descriptions of each color plate allows readers to gain maximum understanding of Lazarev's main text. The general bibliography represents the most complete source of the scientific literature on Russian iconography of the eleventh tothe fifteenth centuries.

Contents:

The discovery and study of early Russian icons

General observations on Russian iconography

Icons of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries

The Novgorod School and the "northern manners"

The Pskov School

The Moscow School

The artistic centers in the principalities of Central Russia.

Notes:

"A Liturgical Press book."

Includes 143 p. of colored plates.

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0814624529

OCLC:

37179996