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RUSSIAN ICONS
SPRING ART BOOKS
RUSSIAN ICONS by Tamara Talbot Rice
SPRING BOOKS
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LONDON
I
must express
my
sincere thanks to
Mr George R. Hann and to Mr S. G.
Gasilov for providing the bulk
of the illustrations for this book. But for their help the necessary colour plates could not have been
obtained, and
it
would have proved impossible
of Russian medieval painting assembled in
Academy 47.
The
to acquaint this
volume.
Western I
am
of Fine Arts for the use of their photographs for Plates
Virgin of Vladimir (Plate
1) is
art-lovers with the fine
2—
6, 9
—
2nd impression
(revised) 1964
7^
Published by
SPRING BOOKS (g)
Paul
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Fulham Broadway
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London
Hamlyn Limited 1963
Printed in Czechoslovakia by Svoboda, Prague
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1446
USSR
15, 24, 25, 40,
reproduced by courtesy of the Tretyakov Gallery.
First published 1963
Westbook House
examples
especially grateful to the
and
Contents
Page
Introduction
The Technique
of Icon Painting
22
An
23
23 24
A
26
Notes on the Plates
The
7
41-88
Plates
2
The The
3
St
4
Deesis St Boris and St Gleb The archangel Gabriel The apostles Peter and Paul with the Christ Emmanuel St Nicholas the Miracle Worker with saints The Nativity, ascribed to
1
5
6 7
8 9
Virgin of Vladimir archangel Gabriel
George
The
Virgin
25
of
Vladimir,
The Annunciation, by Andrei Rublev
12 13
14 15
The
central angel from the Old Testament Trinity St John, largely the work of Andrei Rublev An angel from an Old Testament Trinity
A
central section of a bio-
graphical icon of the arch-
angel Michael
26 27 28
St
George and the dragon
St Demetrius
A
icon of St
biographical
Basil
29 30
and St Nicholas Macarius of Alexandria and St Macarius of Egypt
31
The
32 33
St Joseph
biographical icon
34 35 36 37 38 39 40
St Basil
St
Transfiguration
St Nicholas the
Wonder
Deesis cycle
Ascension Dormition Annunciation Ascension
Small iconostasis
The Old Testament
42
The Annunciation The Three Marys
sepulchre The Raising of Lazarus
of St
George
43
St Paraskevi
17
Christ enthroned
18
20
The Virgin of Tenderness The Virgin of Vladimir The Holy Wisdom
44 45 46
21
Quadripartite icon illustrating scenes from the Passion
The The The The The
Trinity 41
16
19
The
Worker
attributed to Andrei Rublev 1
icon of St
biographical
Nicholas
Andrei Rublev 10
incident from the martyrdom of St George Four saints
The
at
Virgin and Child
St Leontius
Triptych showing the Virgin Child with scriptural
and
scenes
47 48
the
The Vision of Eulogius The Gethsemane
Introduction
The element variations past.
of precision inhe