The Russian icon
Subtitle: from its origins to the sixteenth century
By: Viktor Nikitich Lazarev ; edited by G.I. Vzdornov ; translated from the Italian by Colette Joly Dees ; English text edited by Nancy McDarby.
Contributors: Vzdornov, Gerolʹd Ivanovich.; McDarby, Nancy.
Edition: English-language ed.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Icon painting -- Russia (Federation); Icons, Russian.
Description: This volume provides the history of Russian icon painting from its origins to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Viktor Lazarev deliberately followed these chronological limits, since the "Golden Age" of icon painting in Russia was the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, after which followed a rapid decline.

In a clear and intelligible form, using extensive scholarly material, Lazarev describes the birth of the Russian national painting on wood plate, the technique and aesthetics of Russian icons, the main schools of icon painting, and discusses the work of significant artists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A Liturgical Press book."
Includes 143 p. of colored plates.
Errata slip inserted.
Table of contents: title: The discovery and study of early Russian icons; title: General observations on Russian iconography; title: Icons of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries; title: The Novgorod School and the "northern manners"; title: The Pskov School; title: The Moscow School; title: The artistic centers in the principalities of Central Russia.