Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia

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Icon and Devotion offers the primary extensive presentation in English of the making and that means of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of varieties of worship that emerged within the Russian Orthodox Church within the mid-seventeenth century. Oleg Tarasov shows how icons have held a special place in Russian consciousness because they represented idealized images of Holy Russia. He also looks closely at how and why icons were made. Wonder-working saints and the leaders of such spiritual schisms as the Old Believers appear in these pages, which can be illustrated with miniature paintings, lithographs and engravings never before published within the English-speaking world.

By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk and mainstream currents alike. In addition to articulating the specifically Russian piety they invoke, he analyzes the importance of icons within the cultural lifetime of up to date Russia within the context of popular prints and poster design.
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