Here for the first time in one brilliantly illustrated volume, is a large and comprehensive view of the icon through one thousand years. In hundreds of color plates we see the full compass of this magnificent art form from its first flowering in tenth century constantinople through its various manifestations over the centuries in Greece, Russia, Crete, the Balkan peninsula and the Holy Land.

The Icon

Comics & Graphic Novels

Kurt Weitzmann

Gaiane Alibegasvili

Aneli Volskaja

Manolis Chatzidakis

Gordana Babic

Mihail Alpatov

Teodora Voinescu

Publishers

KNOPF

Ancient Book Illumination (Martin Classical Lectures, Volume XVI)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Harvard University Press

Ancient Book Illumination (Martin Classical Lectures)

The description for this book, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Icons, Volume I: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century, will be forthcoming.

The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai; The Icons Volume I: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, The Place of Book Illumination in Byzantine Art, will be forthcoming.

The Place of Book Illumination in Byzantine Art (Publications of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 7)

Ernst Kitzinger

William C. Loerke

Hugo Buchthal

Reference

Art Museum, Princeton University Press

The icon: Holy images, sixth to fourteenth century

This book contains 48 full-page, full-color icons of really amazing beauty, along with explanations and commentaries on each icon.

Chatto&Windus

Examines icons of Christ, the Blessed Virgin, the great Church feasts, and the Saints and their lives, noting the ideological and theological changes that led to the acceptability of icon worship, especially in the Orthodox Church

Icon

Gordan

Studio Editions

Die Ikonen.

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