Byzantine icons and salaries. Sacred Great Abode Watoped. Illustrated album

The first complete scientific publication in the Russian language of one of the richest meetings of the Byzantine icons and salary of the Watoped Monastery on the Holy Mount Athos. Published 70 icons and 14 salary of the XII-XV centuries belong to the number of masterpieces of Byzantine art. Many of them are recently renovated and published for the first time. The introductory chapters and descriptions of works are written by leading Greek specialists in the Byzantine painting and decorative and applied arts. The monograph gives an excellent idea of ​​Byzantine icon painting and church decorative-applied arts in general, on the bonds of the watopeda with the largest art centers of Byzantium, about the features of the worship on Athos of the ancient shrines.
A large volume of actual and illustrative material makes the publication indispensable for scientists, restorers, icon painters and all interested in Byzantine art