How Divine Images Became Art (eBook, ePUB)
Oleg Tarasov
eBook, ePUB

How Divine Images Became Art (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on the Rediscovery, Study and Collecting of Medieval Icons in the Belle Époque

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How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel ‘discovery’ of Russian medieval art and of the Italian ‘primitives’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two developments are well-known, they are usually studied in isolation. Tarasov’s study has the great merit of showing the connection between the art world in Russia and the West, and its impact in the cultural history of the continent in the pre-war period.Drawing on a profound familiarity with Russian sources, some of which are little known to Western scholars, and on equally expert knowledge of Weste...