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Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia by Roderick Grierson (Paperback, 1994)
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The mystery of Russian medieval painting is hardly understood today, but now in this book , the wealth of generations of creativity lavished on religious art is shown for the first time in the West. Gates of Mystery will enable Westerners to experience something much more than the pleasure of admiring visual beauty. By contemplating the legacy of a great medieval artistic tradition, at least a part of the perfect harmony to which Russian artists and patrons aspired can be recovered. The Russian artistic tradition - springing from Byzantine roots - is here portrayed in its appearance of a definable Christian state in the eleventh century until the reforms of Peter the Great swept away traditions that by then seemed timeless in the early eighteenth century. Although the main concentration is on religious art - and particularly that of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - the wide range is shown in this book in more than 100 full colour plates, showing some of the greatest works of the period. Timed to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the book with its extended essays both on the historical background and on particular strands of Russian art (such as embroidery and icon painting), provides a catalogue of the exhibition as well as a major work of art history on a tradition almost unknown in the-modern West.Product Identifiers
PublisherJames Clarke & Co LTD
ISBN-139780718829001
eBay Product ID (ePID)92031165
Product Key Features
Book TitleGates of Mystery: the Art of Holy Russia
AuthorRoderick Grierson
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
Number of Pages336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height276mm
Item Width214mm
Item Weight1430g
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EditorRoderick Grierson
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 01 May, 2024
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Icons are amazing I have always liked the art of Icons and I didnt have this book. Now it has added to my small collection, and it is great.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
