Description

Large format hardcover, in original, quite worn publisher’s dust-jacket. 387 pages. Text in Russian. Illustrated with black and white and several full page color reproductions of Russian art. Published Min Moscow, 1966. No previous ownership marks. The present volume deals with the Soviet governments’ first efforts to protect the history of Russian fine arts of the XII-XV centuries, concentrating on the theory and practice of their protection and restoration and based on the work of Igor Grabar. Russian monumental and easel painting of the XII-XV centuries feature prominently in these efforts. Light gray cloth printed in red and black, book is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust-jacket quite tattered and chipped at extremities. Very good+ in a poor dust-jacket. Text entirely in Russian.