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The World to Come - Ukrainian Images of the Last Judgment
Liliya Berezhnaya
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Description for The World to Come - Ukrainian Images of the Last Judgment
Hardcover. Elaborate icons and murals of the Last Judgement adorned many Eastern-rite churches in medieval and early modern Ukraine. This title includes more than eighty such images from present-day Ukraine, eastern Slovakia, and southeastern Poland, with most printed in full color. Num Pages: 410 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; AGR; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 182 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1356.
Icons and murals depicting the biblical scene of the Last Judgment adorned many Eastern-rite churches in medieval and early modern Ukraine. Dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, these images were extraordinarily elaborate, composed of dozens of discrete elements reflecting Byzantine, Novgorodian, Moldavian, and Catholic influences, in addition to local and regional traditions. Over time, the details of the iconography evolved in response to changing cultural resources, the conditions of material life at the time, and new trends in mentality and taste. The World to Come lists and describes more than eighty Last Judgment images from ... Read more
Icons and murals depicting the biblical scene of the Last Judgment adorned many Eastern-rite churches in medieval and early modern Ukraine. Dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, these images were extraordinarily elaborate, composed of dozens of discrete elements reflecting Byzantine, Novgorodian, Moldavian, and Catholic influences, in addition to local and regional traditions. Over time, the details of the iconography evolved in response to changing cultural resources, the conditions of material life at the time, and new trends in mentality and taste. The World to Come lists and describes more than eighty Last Judgment images from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
410
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1353g
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781932650112
SKU
V9781932650112
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About Liliya Berezhnaya
Liliya Berezhnaya is a Research Fellow at the Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence at the University of M nster. John-Paul Himka is Professor of History in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. Liliya Berezhnaya is a Research Fellow at the Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence at the University of M nster. John-Paul Himka is Professor ... Read more
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