Richard Temple’s lavishly illustrated book provides a concise but thorough tour through the ages, including famous works, as well as many rarely seen, making this a truly unique contribution to the field of art history and appreciation.
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Richard Temple’s lavishly illustrated book provides a concise but thorough tour through the ages, including famous works, as well as many rarely seen, making this a truly unique contribution to the field of art history and appreciation.
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"This beautiful book provides us with a rare opportunity to gaze with delight on good reproductions of icons so that we may engage with their great beauty and powerful mystery. I here record my gratitude to Richard Temple."--Sister Wendy Beckett
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This book is a fully color-illustrated introduction to the history of icons. It looks primarily at Russian icons, and also explores the origins of the art of icon painting from Hellenistic Egypt. With images like St. George slaying the Dragon, scenes from the Life of St. Nicholas and various interpretations of the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus, Temple gives a fascinating tour of icons throughout the ages.
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This review is from: Icons: Divine Beauty (Hardcover)
Here is a wonderful book -- well writen, informative, and a thing of visual beauty.
The dust jacket alone is amazing. Clearly a work of love by someone who knows his stuff. (His other books are also excellent, although somewhat hard to find.) Better yet, he informs and explains very clearly. A rare gift. A great gift it makes as well.
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Overpriced,
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Forty dollars for a 50-page book? That's about 80 cents per page. Not sure if this is worth it. Besides, how much information can you cram into a 50-page book? And this book supposedly has color plates? Where would you fit them?
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