Iconography

Description

I fell in love with Icons as an art form back in the early 1990s. So I was given a book about Icons for Xmas in 1995. It was put together by T Talbot Rice and published in 1990. This book is called Icons, Art and Devotion (on the left) and yes I still have it on my shelves. It travelled with me across the oceans.

Icons have been made by the Russian and east European Orthodox churches since the 1300s. Some of these icons are now very famous and very valuable.

I have recently done some digging into the author. Her name was Tamara Talbot-Rice. She was born in Russia and later married an Englishman. His name was David Talbot Rice. He was an English Professor.

Supplies

Papers and Elements - Faded Pages Bundle by Jessica Dunn.

You can read more about David and Tamara on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Talbot_Rice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Talbot_Rice

Dictionary of Art Historians

https://arthistorians.info/ricet (Tamara)

https://arthistorians.info/riced (David)

University of Edinburgh - The Life of Tamara Talbot Rice

http://www.scotland-russia.llc.ed.ac.uk/masterpieces-of-byzantine-art/