Imprinting the Divine - Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection

Características

Autor:  Annemarie Weyl Carr

Editor:  Yale University Press

Lugar de impresión:  New Haven - Londres

Fecha de publicación:  [2011]

The Menil's collection of Byzantine and related icons is widely regarded as one of the most important in the United States. Comprising more than sixty works, many acquired by Dominique de Menil in 1985 from the noted British collector Eric Bradley, the group spans twelve hundred years, from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, and encompasses a number of distinct cultures, including Greek, Balkan, and Russian. In this volume, the first publication to survey this diverse collection, leading scholars explore the history and meaning of these remarkable works, and their continuing power to surprise and impress.

Orthodox Christianity developed in the Near East during the Byzantine Empire, in time yielding eleven autocephalous communions of which the Greek, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, and Bulgarian Orthodox churches are the largest today. Each maintained the tradition of icon painting rooted in Byzantium but inflected it in distinctive ways. Transcending time and place through a delicate balance of tradition and innovation, these images of saintly or divine figures were designed to imprint their holy subjects on the human mind. Though largely dismissed as backward by Renaissance and Enlightenment Europeans, icons captured the imagination of early modernist painters, and contemporary audiences appreciate them as aesthetic objects.

Distributed for The Menil Collection

Exhibition Schedule:

The Menil Collection
(10/21/11-03/04/12)

Condición del Producto:
Ejemplo en buen estado. Sobrecubierta con rastros de polvo, ligeros rayones, mínimas abrasiones y mínimos signos de desgaste en los bordes y esquinas. Ligera coloración amarillenta en los bordes de las páginas. Texto en inglés. Texto en inglés. Libro en buen estado.

Código ISBN:  030016968X

EAN:  9780300169683

Páginas:  168

Formato:  Tapa dura con sobrecubierta

Dimensiones (cm):
Altura:  28
Ancho:  2

Descripción

Texto en inglés. Texto en inglés. Contribuciones de Annemarie Wayl Carr, Bertrand Davezac, Clare Elliott. La colección Menil. 21 de octubre de 2011-18 de marzo de 2012. Numerosas ilustraciones en color nt y ft

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