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[Icons of the Holy Monastery of Karakallou at Mount Athos]Text in Greek with extensive English summary; bilingual (Greek-English) legends for all images. Cloth+jacket in slip case, 32X23 cm, 552 pp., rich colour illustration: 241 colour images; net weight 3.5 kg. Among hundreds of byzantine and post-byzantine icons that belong to the collection of the Monastery 152 were chosen to be reproduced in this book. The images cover a period extending from the 14th until the 19th century. Among others, the volume contains the greatest collection of works by the famous hagiographer monk Dionysius of Fourna (18th century), author of the classic book "Hermeneia tes zographikes technes".
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