Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia by Editor-Roderick Grierson - 1993-10

Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia
by Roderick Grierson
Publisher: Intercultura, 1994
ISBN is 9780963537409 / 0963537407
Softcover
8.5 x 10.8 inches, 336 pages

The use and making of icons entered Ancient Russia following its conversion to Orthodox Christianity in AD 988.
As a general rule, these icons strictly followed models and formulas hallowed by Byzantine art, led from the
capital in Constantinople. As time passed, the Russians widened the vocabulary of types and styles far beyond
anything found elsewhere in the Orthodox world.
The personal, innovative and creative traditions of Western European religious art were largely lacking in
Russia before the 17th century, when Russian icon painting became strongly influenced by religious paintings
and engravings from both Protestant and Catholic Europe. In the mid-17th-century changes in liturgy and
practice instituted by Patriarch Nikon resulted in a split in the Russian Orthodox Church. The traditionalists,
the persecuted "Old Ritualists"… Read More

InterCultura, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

InterCultura, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

InterCultura, Fort Worth, TX. n.d. 1st. edn. Lge 4to. pp336 incl. index, bibliog. etc. Orig. dec'd & laminated stiff card covers. Exhibition catalogue of 96 items, each lavisly illus. with full page colour plates + col. frontis & dec'd eps. Page edges v. slightly dusty and minimal signs of wear. Neat ink inscr. inside front cover. VG indeed. Heavy book.

Intercultura, October 1993. Trade . Good. Good Softcover. Moderate shelfwear to covers, including creasing. Spine has some wrinkling. Textblock mildly soiled. A few pages have a bent corner. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

Paperback. Very Good.

Intercultura, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Oversize Paperback.

USA: University of Texas Press, 1993. No spinal creases.. First Edition. Card Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Softback.

Fort Worth [Texas]: InterCultura, no date [1993]. First edition (softcover). 4to (28cm by 22cm), 336pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Original laminated card wrappers. This copy is in very good condition. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Baltimore, Princeton, Dallas, Memphis, Chicago and London in 1993-1994. ISBN 0963537407

In original plastic wrapping
Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Still in plastic wrapping.