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

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Autore:  Annemarie Weyl Carr

Editore:  Yale University Press

Luogo di stampa:  New Haven - London

Anno pubblicazione:  [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)

Condizione prodotto:
Esemplare in buone condizioni. Sovraccoperta con tracce di polvere, lievi graffi, minime abrasioni e minimi segni di usura ai bordi e agli angoli. Leggero ingiallimento ai bordi delle pagine. Testo in Lingua Inglese. English text. Book in good condition.

Codice ISBN:  030016968X

Codice EAN:  9780300169683

Pagine:  168

Formato:  Cartonato con sovracoperta

Dimensioni (cm):
Altezza:  28
Larghezza:  2

Descrizione

Testo in Lingua Inglese. English text. Contributions by Annemarie Wayl Carr, Bertrand Davezac, Clare Elliott. The Menil Collection. October 21, 2011- March 18, 2012. Numerose illustrazioni a colori n.t e f.t.

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