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"Pilgrim Treasures from the Hermitage: Byzantium-Jerusalem" presents the highlights from the splendid collection of pilgrims' souvenirs in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg: oil lamps and bronze crosses from the Early Byzantine period (4th to 7th centuries), icons and reliquaries from the 10th to the 13th centuries, and pilgrims' souvenirs in mother-of-pearl and fish-bone icons from the 18th and 19th centuries. Christianity found its way to Russia from Byzantium, bringing in its wake new traditions. Russian culture remains closely linked to Byzantium, and the close relationship between the two cultures developed thanks partly to pilgrimages. The flow of Russian pilgrims first to Byzantium and then to the Holy Land created a living link, preserving spiritual and material memories of Byzantium. Returning to Russia, pilgrims took back remarkable works of art, including late Palestinian icons, holy reliquaries and souvenirs carved from mother-of-pearl. This book showcases the physical forms of spiritual quests, showing how different cultures interacted to create the masterpieces of East Christian art.
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'illustrations to Pilgrim Treasures are all full-color, crisply reproduced, and well chosen for breadth, depth and iconographic detail ... Readers interested in the under represented Christian churches of the Eastern end of the Mediterranean basin, and the Middle East in particular, will find the text a minor revelation about this rich, complex world of religious arts'. Religion and the Arts 2007
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- PublisherLund Humphries Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0853319391
- ISBN 13 9780853319399
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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PILGRIM TREAS FROM THE HERMITA: Byzantium-jerusalem
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Book Description gebunden. Condition: Neu. Neu -Highlights der byzantinischen Zeit aus der brillierenden Sammlung der Hermitage in Sankt Petersburg! Vom 4. Jahrhundert an zog es die Pilger gen Jerusalem, auch als es noch byzantinisch war. Und sie brachten Souvenirs mit: Öllampen und Bronzekreuze im 4. bis 7. Jahrhundert, Ikonen und Reliquien im 10. bis 13 Jahrhundert. Später sind es dann Pilgerstücke aus Perlmutt oder Fischbein, die das Gefallen der Heimreisenden erregten. Bis heute ist das religiöse Russland mit der byzantinischen Zeit auf das Engste verbunden, denn der Pilgerstrom von dort nach Byzanz und weiter in das Gelobte Land war von immenser Größe und Bedeutung. Die herrlichen Andachtsstücke, Reliquienschreine und Ikonen, die das Buch hier versammelt, veranschaulichen den gewaltigen interkulturellem Austausch, der diese wertvollen Andenken überhaupt erst hat entstehen lassen. Beeindruckend! (Text engl.) Englisch. Seller Inventory # 632600
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