Russian Icons from Transylvania

Exhibition Catalogue

292 pages · 2023 · open access

Ilya Borovikov, Cristina Cojocaru, Atanasia Văetiși · edited by Ana Dumitran, Dumitrița-Daniela Filip

This publication is part of the project “RICONTRANS – Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda. Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th to Early 20th Century)”, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 818791). The book contains the catalogue of the exhibition of Russian icons from Transylvania, Romania, organized in Alba Iulia in June–August 2023, together with a series of studies by Ana Dumitran, Ilya Borovikov, Dumitrița-Daniela Filip, Atanasia Văetiși and Cristina Cojocaru, on the transfer of Russian mass icons to Romanian territories and on their restoration.