An Icon Painter's Notebook: An Anthology of Source Materials (the Bolshakov Edition)

A companion to the Iconographer's Patternbook: The Stroganov Edition. Traditional patterns of saints, feast days, and other instructional material from ancient sources to the 17th century and a must for all interested in icons and theology.

This Patternbook includes never-before published information about appropriate quotes on saints' scrolls, the physical appearance of Christ and the Virgin Mary from early sources, rules of iconography, and related theology from early councils and writers.