Author: KONDAKOV, NIKODIM PAVLOVICH.
Title: Icons.
Description: First English Edition; Demy 4to; pp. 255; text illustrated with numerous coloured plates, time-line of icon painting, bibliography, notes, bound in original slick illustrated boards, fine copy. London; Sirrocco; 2006. This work analyzes the evolution of the thematic subjects of painters begining in the Byzantine period, through the principality of Kiev, until its completion in the Russian Empire. Regardless of the techniques and materials used, such as wood, gold, tempera, or the ancient canons of iconography, the artistic representation of holiness reveals a new expression of humanity in each era of history.

Keywords: art icons russian