Publication details
Iconographie de la Mére de Dieu III
| Title in English | Iconography of the Mother of God III |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | After decades of oblivion, a document has come to light that, for years now, has aroused the curiosity of Byzantine scholars and many others. It is the last work of Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov (1844-1925), the “legendary” manuscript that was given to the Vatican in the 1920's and later considered missing. It is in the archives of the PIO that it was found. This volume treats the iconography of the Madonna in Italian art between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This was a subject touched upon by Kondakov in his first work on Marian iconography in 1911, wherein he already detailed his idea of reading the paintings of the Italian Renaissance in relation to the paintings of Russian and Greek icons. It will add a further page to the complex and debated relationship between the Italian Renaissance and the Russian intellectuals of the “Silver Age”. |