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Byzantine Iconography: Elements Of Style And Modern Icon Painting Techniques

 
 
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Byzantine Iconography: Elements Of Style And Modern Icon Painting Techniques

The Byzantine Iconography book, highlights the development of iconography through the ages, and its spiritual connotations. The particular elements of the Byzantine style are described as well as the characteristic method of presenting perspective and color application to create tridimensional effects. Some of the oldest and best known icons are shown; and how latter painters rendered the prototype maintaining the identity of the original subject. Insight on the multiple factors allows the reader to reach a deeper understanding of this rich artistic style, of increasing popularity. The second part of the book is a painter's manual with detailed instructions on the several steps required to paint icons, including how to prepare the gesso board, transfer of image, application of multiple color layers and application of gold leaf backgrounds.

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Product Details:
Author: Milagros Blanco
Paperback: 38 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: February 14, 2008
Language: English
ISBN: 141968129X
Package Length: 7.8 inches
Package Width: 5.0 inches
Package Height: 0.2 inches
Package Weight: 0.15 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 3 reviews
 
 

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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

4Very Basic  Nov 09, 2009
By Latin Pod
This is a basic introduction booklet. It contains some historical background, but focuses primarily on technique. However, there are only a few pictures, and they are of very poor quality. The best choice, in my opinion, is THE TECHNIQUE OF ICON PAINTING BY Guillem Ramos-Poqui. However, it is out of print.

8 of 8 found the following review helpful:

2Byzantine Iconography: Elements of Style and Modern Icon Painting Techniques  Dec 12, 2008
By Terry Sita
Very small book with no mention of number of pages in the description. Too little for the price. I was not pleased. Terry Sita

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2Very Poorly Done  Jul 27, 2011
By Patricia M Vargas
The book's photos are printed on a low dpi printer and are very blurry with very poor resolution and colors. The best I can say about this book is that there is a bibliogrpahy to further explore icons. I did not find the book to be technically instructive, but vague. There are other books and DVDs at Amazon that can enhance knowlege of icons with much more explicit technical instruction.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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