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Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov. Icons. Big and beautiful album on icons. Contents include 12th-14th centuries (Suzdal, Novgorod), 15th centuries (Rublev), 16th and 17th centuries, time-line of icon painting, bibliography, notes, glossary and a list of illustrations. Other information can be found in this elegant book on origins of icons, use and place of icons in Russia, and techniques.
Big Sirrocco Collection: 2006. 255 pages. Hardcover, pictorial boards.Small black mark on back cover, no ownership marks, otherwise like new. 1 copy only.
Nicodem Pavlovich Kondakov (1844-1925) was an art historian with special expertise in the history of Russian and Serbian Christian icons. He was born in the village of Khalan (Kursk, attended Moscow University under Fyodor Buslaev, and, after graduation, he taught in the Moscow Art School. From 1888 he taught in St. Petersburg University. From 1893 he was a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1898 a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1895 with Fyodor Uspensky he founded the Russian Archaeological Institute of Constantinople. After the Russian revolution, he emigrated to Bulgaria, and then to Czechoslovakia, where he taught in Prague University until his death in 1925.
