Icons 120 Illustrations

Author : Lyudmila Milyayeva
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1781608512
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icons 120 illustrations written by Lyudmila Milyayeva and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the evolution of iconic art from its beginning in Byzantium to the time of the Russian Empire. Icons are a fundamental element in the history of art, and it is therefore crucial to understand how this form of expression began and how it developed over centuries. Icons are discussed by one of the world-renowned experts on early Christian iconography, offering a valuable point of reference for specialists, as well as students.

Author : Robin Cormack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026193
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icons written by Robin Cormack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine and Russian Orthodox icons are perhaps the most enduring form of religious art ever developed--and one of the most mysterious. This book provides an accessible guide to their story and power. Illustrated mostly with Cretan, Greek, and Russian examples from the British Museum, which houses Britain's most important collection, the book examines icons in the context of the history of Christianity, as well as within the perspective of art history.

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ISBN 13 : 9780760704004
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icons written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Glenville
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780675356
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Icons of Fashion Illustration written by Tony Glenville and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion illustration is and always has been about far more than pretty drawings of pretty dresses. This lavish celebration of today’s leading artists in the field showcases the timeless craft and amazing diversity that characterize the genre. From David Downton to Cecilia Carlstedt and from Jason Brooks to Jordi Labanda, 28 masters of fashion illustration from across the world are featured, one by one, in a grand tour of the best work currently produced. While some illustrators create daringly bold graphics, others prefer delicate watercolours and ink drawings. Throughout the volume, both hi-tech multimedia effects and traditional drawing skills are given pride of place, with many of the artists using a mixture of techniques. Lively commentary accompanies the images, while interviews with each illustrator provide further insight into their influences and methods. A source of inspiration for aspiring illustrators, designers and advertising creatives, this gorgeous volume will also catch the eye of fashion lovers and all those who have an interest in contemporary figurative art and visual communication.

Author : Tamara Talbot Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icons written by Tamara Talbot Rice and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Icons were among the first religious objects brought into Russia from Byzantium at a time when Christian art was already highly developed. Although the art of the icon (the sacred picture of the Greek Orthodox church) could be said to have reached perfection in the Byzantine world, the Russians, nevertheless, were able to give it a new, national complexion and produce some of the finest examples of the art. Icons were first produced for use in churches and processions. As their size became smaller, so demand fro them as religious household objects grew. They have remained an important feature in Russia's orthodox religious cultures to this day. The 65 plates in this book show work as beautiful as that of the greatest Italian primitives. The icons date from the 14th to 17th centuries, many belonging to the School of Novgorod, once the cultural centre of Russia. Other sources include the renowned school of Rublev and Dionysus"--

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ICONS written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maidie Hilmo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351918559
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts written by Maidie Hilmo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The function of images in the major illustrated English poetic works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early fifteenth century is the primary concern of this book. Hilmo argues that the illustrations have not been sufficiently understood because modern judgments about their artistic merit and fidelity to the literary texts have got in the way of a historical understanding of their function. The author here proves that artists took their work seriously because images represented an invisible order of reality, that they were familiar with the vernacular poems, and that they were innovative in adapting existing iconographies to guide the ethical reading process of their audience. To provide a theoretical basis for the understanding of early monuments, artefacts, and texts, she examines patristic opinions on image-making, supported by the most authoritative modern sources. Fresh emphasis is given to the iconic nature of medieval images from the time of the iconoclastic debates of the 8th and 9th centuries to the renewed anxiety of image-making at the time of the Lollard attacks on images. She offers an important revision of the reading of the Ruthwell Cross, which changes radically the interpretation of the Cross as a whole. Among the manuscripts examined here are the Caedmon, Auchinleck, Vernon, and Pearl manuscripts. Hilmo's thesis is not confined to overtly religious texts and images, but deals also with historical writing, such as Layamon's Brut, and with poetry designed ostensibly for entertainment, such as the Canterbury Tales. This study convincingly demonstrates how the visual and the verbal interactively manifest the real "text" of each illustrated literary work. The artistic elements place vernacular works within a larger iconographic framework in which human composition is seen to relate to the activities of the divine Author and Artificer.Whether iconic or anti-iconic in stance, images, by their nature, were a potent means of influencing the way an English author's words, accessible in the vernacular, were thought about and understood within the context of the theology of the Incarnation that informed them and governed their aesthetic of spiritual function. This is the first study to cover the range of illustrated English poems from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early 15th century.

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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systemic; with Illustrations of the Species ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Solrunn Nes
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080286497X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystical Language of Icons written by Solrunn Nes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solrunn Nes, one of Europe's most admired iconographers, illuminates the world of Christian icons, explaining the motifs, gestures, and colors common to these profound symbols of faith. Nes explores in depth a number of famous icons, including those of the Greater Feasts, the Mother of God, and a number of the better-known saints, enriching her discussion with references to Scripture, early Christian writings, and liturgy. She also leads readers through the process and techniques of icon painting, showing each step with photographs, and includes more than fifty of her own original works of art.

Author : Thomas F. Mathews
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065092
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons written by Thomas F. Mathews and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings. Exciting discoveries punctuate the narrative: the technology of the triptych, enormously popular in Europe, traced by the authors to the construction of Egyptian portable shrines, such as the Isis and Serapis of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the discovery that the egg tempera painting medium, usually credited to Renaissance artist Cimabue, has been identified in Egyptian panels a millennium earlier; and the reconstruction of a ring of icons on the chancel of Saint Sophia in Istanbul. This book will be a vital addition to the fields of Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, and late-antique art history and, more generally, to the history of painting.