Russian Hagiographical Icons
Language: English Hardcover with slipcase Publication year: 2007 Pages: 352 pp. Format: 275 × 253 × 40 mm Weight: 2,5 kg ISBN: 978-5-91432-003-1
Price: 18190 ₽
This is a book about one of the least known genres in the Orthodox artistic tradition, hagiographical icons. It contains Russian icons from museums and private collections, most of which are published here for the first time. Each one is accompanied by a brief note on the saint’s life, iconography and hagiographical literature. All the icon scenes are furnished with inscriptions and some are magnified, making it possible to view the subject in considerable detail.
Growing contacts with the West and the end of cultural over-nurturing from Byzantium activated Russian thought and promoted selfawareness. On the one hand, there was a growing desire for a deeper, and now independent, understanding of Russian Orthodoxy and Russian history. Russian history began to be seen as part of a world process, part of God’s design for the world.
