Bulgarian Icons
Balgarskata ikona. Bulgarian Icons. L’icone bulgare. Die bulgarische Ikone.
This album containing reproductions of wall paintings from the Archangel Michael Cathedral, a family sepulchre of Grand Princes of Moscow in the Kremlin, belongs to “The Masterpieces” series in which every subsequent album deals with a prominent work of art.
This volume is a further attempt to concentrate icons related to “Themes” from the historical events communicated in the New Testament concerning the Lord, together with the relevant texts, as was attempted in a previous volume.
In world art, the medieval painting of Ukraine, as well as that of Russia and Byelorussia, is a unique branch of the byzantine style with which the origins of Old Rus art were very closely linked. For many centuries the art of Old Rus determined the content, form and stylistic features of every kind of […]
Gerade diese Bedeutung der Ikonen für die Kunst von heute scheint uns ein legitimer Grund für die Schaffung eines Ikonenmuseums zu sein. Hier streuen die Ikonen reiche Saat. Damit werden sie, und das scheint uns das Höchste zu sein, fruchtbar weiterwirken.
The main purpose of this album is to bring to light the aesthetic merits of the painting in Ancient Rus, which give it a place of honour in the history of world art, alongside the Theban wall paintings, the Greek vases, the Byzantine mosaics, the Gothic stained glass and the Italian primitives.
La connaissance de l’art des icônes et leur contenu constitue, de nos jours, une préoccupation d’ordre général.Les icônes choisies présentées dans cet album feront connaitre au lecteur la richesse et la variété de la conception artistique d’un grand nombre de peintres qui ont travaillé, des siècles durant, en Valachie, en Moldavie et en Transylvanie. les […]
Dans le cadre charmant d’une villa de style florentin, construite en 1848 par l’architecte grec Cléanthis pour la duchesse de Plaisance, figure extravagante du romantisme français, s’est installé, il y a trente-cinq ans, le Musée Byzantin.
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