Imprinting the Divine - Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection
Caractéristiques
Byzantine and Russian Icons from the Menil Collection
Auteur: Annemarie Weyl Carr
Éditeur: Yale University Press
Lieu d'impression: New Haven - Londres
Année de publication: [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)
État du produit:
Exemplaire en bon état. Jaquette présentant des traces de poussière, de légères rayures, des abrasions minimes et des signes minimes d'usure sur les bords et les coins. Léger jaunissement sur les bords des pages. Texte en anglais. Texte en anglais. Livre en bon état.
Code ISBN: 030016968X
EAN: 9780300169683
Pages: 168
Format: Couverture rigide avec jaquette
Dimensions (cm):
Hauteur: 28
Largeur: 2
Description
Texte en anglais. Texte en anglais. Contributions d'Annemarie Wayl Carr, Bertrand Davezac, Clare Elliott. La collection Ménil. 21 octobre 2011- 18 mars 2012. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs nt et ft
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