Byzantine icons and salaries

The first full scientific publication in Russian one of the richest meetings of the Byzantine salaries of the Vatopeda monastery on the Holy Mount Athos. The published 70 icons and 14 salaries of the XII-XV century will be to the number of masterpieces of Byzantine art. Many of them have recently been restored for the first time. The introductory chapters and descriptions of the works are written by leading Greek specialists in Byzantine painting and decorative art. The monograph gives an excellent idea of ​​Byzantine icon painting and church decorative and applied art as a whole, about a vatoped with the largest artistic centers of Byzantium, about the features of veneration on ancient shrines.

The publication makes the publication indispensable for restorers, icon painters and all those interested in Byzantine art.