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Paintings of the Holy Scriptures

Paintings of the Holy Scriptures. Icons from the collection of the Institute of Art History

Helena Dáňová - Jiří Roháček

This small publication, conceived as a accompaniment to the exhibition of the same name, presents a selection from the icon collection of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The collection, comprising a total of 84 pieces, comes from the estate of the so-called Kondakov Institute. This collection, totalling 84 pieces, comes from the scholarly estate of the so-called Kondakov Institute. A highly renowned scientific institute, focused mainly on researching Byzantine, Russian and Eastern European art and the art of the surrounding areas, operated in Prague in the second quarter of the 20th century, in the period between the two world wars. It was personally connected with Russian emigrants (after October 1917) settled in Prague. Kondakov Institute activities were generously supported by the newly established Czechoslovak Republic and its representatives, including the first president T. G. Masaryk. A number of Czech and foreign researchers also collaborated with this institute. After the definitive termination of its activity, the institute’s archive and collections were transferred to the administration of today’s IAH of the Czech Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 1953. The publication presents a selection of normally inaccessible icons. The selected collection represents two groups of normally inaccessible icons. The first presents post-Byzantine icons from Greece and Italy from the 15th–17th centuries; the second Russian icons. This group includes one of the oldest icons in our collection from the 15th century, icons from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as a typical example of the art of the Palekh school from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Both the exhibition and the publication are dedicated to the memory of doc. PhDr. Jiří Roháček, CSc.

PDF publication, in Czech, in English, color illustrations, 33 pp., Prague 2023

ISBN 978-80-88283-82-9 (Artefactum, PDF verze)

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