The Icon [Hardcover] Kurt Weitzmann; Gaiane Alibegasvili; Aneli Volskaja; Manolis Chatzidakis; Gordana Babic; Mihail Alpatov and Teodora Voinescu

Here for the first time in one brilliantly illustrated volume, is a large and comprehensive view of the icon through one thousand years. In hundreds of color plates we see the full compass of this magnificent art form from its first flowering in tenth century constantinople through its various manifestations over the centuries in Greece, Russia, Crete, the Balkan peninsula and the Holy Land.