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KONDAKOV, Nikodim Pavlovich (1844-1925). The Russi

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Prague: Seminarium Kondakovianum, 1928. Folio (424 x 322 mm). Title in red and black. 65 mounted colored plates. Text: stitched, as issued; plates: unbound, as issued, all within a single cream card portfolio, covers of the portfolio printed in red and gilt. Condition: light soiling; light spotting and small tears to portfolio. Kondakov was a Russian historian and a specialist in history of Byzantine art. He enjoyed a long and distinguished career as an academic, teaching at the Moscow Art School, the University of Novorossia and St. Petersburg University. Soon after the revolution Kondakov emigrated to Bulgaria and then to Prague, where he taught until his death in 1925. He archived a prodigious amount of Russian art, much of it largely unknown, employing iconographic principles to their study. Kondakov wrote numerous books on the history of Ancient Greek, Russian, Georgian and Byzantine art; and his lectures proved to have an enormous influence upon many future Russian historians. Icons were cultural artifacts to Kondakov as much as art objects; his work stresses their position within a larger historical context. He organized art by region or what he termed a "common tendency" from which he portrayed an entire epoch.

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