THE ICON BYZANTINE TRADITION IN EUROPE, RUSSIA, NEAR EAST/1982 KNOPF, HC/DJ 1st

  
THE ICON: THE BYZANTINE TRADITION IN EUROPE, RUSSIA, AND THE NEAR EAST THROUGH SEVEN EPOCHS. Manolis Chatzidakis, Kurt Weitzmann, Gaïane Alibegasvili, Gordana Babic, Aneli Volskaja. Condition: Book: Excellent, unread condition, corners lightly bumped.

No marks or tears to pages. Dust jacket: Very Good, taped repair to front top right corner, light scuffing. With 385 color plates, many of them full pages, showing icons of outstanding beauty in every medium and of every period.

Text by seven eminent scholars, specialists in the art of the icon and the Byzantine culture in which it flourished.