Andrei Rublev [IN HUNGARIAN] Illustrated folio

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Gyorgy Istvan, & Nemenyi Ferenc. Rubljov [Rublev]. Kepzomuveszeti Alap, Kiadovallalata Budapest, 1973. IN HUNGARIAN (with Russian supplement). Oversize edition with images of his icons and frescoes. Approximately 60 color illustrations, unpaginated. Hardcover folio with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Dustjacket has small 1" rip front cover top left, and larger (1"x 2") tear back cover top left, and smaller tear bottom right back cover. Also some wear at spine. Text is about fine, no ownership marks. 1 copy only.

Rublev (1360-1430) (Андрей Рублёв) is considered one of the greatest medieval Russian painters of Orthodox Christian icons and frescoes. He is also a canonized saint. Much like Christ Himself, little information survives about Rublev's life; even where he was born is unknown. He probably lived in the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, near Moscow, under Nikon of Radonezh, who became hegumen after the death of Sergius of Radonezh in 1392. The first mention of Rublev is in 1405, decorating icons and frescos, together with Theophanes the Greek and Prokhor of Gorodets, for the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow's Kremlin. Theophanes is considered to have trained Rublev. Theophanes was an important Byzantine master who had moved to Russia. Rublev's name, as the junior, was the last on a contemporary list of masters, both by rank and by age. Chronicles indicate, that together with Daniel Chorny, Rublev painted the Dormition Cathedral, in Vladimir (in 1408), as well as the Trinity Cathedral in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (between 1425 and 1427). After Daniel's death, Rublev came to Moscow's Andronikov Monastery where he painted his last work, the frescoes of the Saviour Cathedral. He is also believed to have painted at least one of the miniatures in the Khitrovo Gospels. The only entirely authenticated as his, is the masterpiece icon of the Old Testament Holy Trinity (c. 1410), which was removed in 2023 from the Tretyakov Gallery and placed in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.