Author: Christ, Alice (Ed.)
Title: Orthodox Icons from a Modernizing Age from the Collection of Mr. Leslie M. Burgess and Dr. Sarah Jastak-Burgess
Description: Newark, Delaware, University of Delaware, 1994. Softbound. Purple printed wraps with gold lettering and design. 67 pp. Many color and bw plates. Introductory text by Alice Christ. Each piece in the collection is annotated and illustrated. Includes a bibliography and endnotes section. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the University Gallery, Mar. 11 to Apr. 15, 1994. Primarily about Russian icons but with an overview of icons in general and some pictured from Greece, Byzantine times, Bulgaria and other places. Includes images of God, Mother of God, liturgical feasts and calendar days, and the Saints. With excellent, thorough text. VG .

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