Product Description: Presented as a step-by-step practical course, this book brings to life the sacred and beautiful art of Byzantine icon painting with many examples, all illustrated in colour. It discusses initial composition, preparation of a panel, oil and water gilding and egg tempera technique - it is a source book on the history, technique and meaning of icon painting...read more

Product Description: Modern knowledge of a Byzantine text now usually carried the Painter's manual or Hermeneia could be said to have begun in 1832. That such a text existed passed largely unnoticed until a French archeologist, traveling among the monasteries of Mount Athos, came across some painters at work in the monastery of Esphigmenou who showed him the text that they were using...read more