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Icons. Divine Beauty
Item No: 150:0863565662
Category: 16
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Author: Richard Temple
ISBN: 0863565662
Publisher: The Temple Gallery, 2004
Size: 245 x 305 mm (9.5 x 12 in.) 224 pages. Hardcover.
"This beautiful book provides us with a rare opportunity to gaze with delight on good reproduction of icons so that we may engage with their great beauty and powerful mystery. I here record my gratitude to Richard Temple."
Sister Wendy Beckett.
With its roots in the distant, pre-Christian past, the art of the icon has been refined over centuries. Icon paintings are instantly recognisable but have never been widely understood in the West. The art developed in the deserts of the Middle East, passing through the Roman and Byzantine imperial ages and achieving ist highest form in Russia, while exerting a discernible influence on the Italian Renaissance along the way.
Richard Temple's lavishly illustrated book provides a concise but thorough tour through the ages of the icon, tracing the art from its origins to the 19th century and beyond. The icons selected to illustrate the text include famous work as well as meny stunning, rarely seen ones. This particular emphasis on lesser-known masterpieces, along with the author's cogent, thorough and very personal overview of the major periods and themes of the icon painting, make this book a truly unique contribution to the field of art history and appreciation. It is both an introduction for the uninitiated and an object in its own right that will delight connoisseurs.
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