Medieval Russian Art

Abstract

ALTHOUGH the world has been long acquainted with west European art of the Middle Ages, it is only within the past twenty-five years, that Russian medieval paintings have come to light even in their country; and only since 1926 that they have been shown abroad. Copies of these first masterpieces, called “archeological facsimiles”, were shown first in Berlin, later copies and original icons were exhibited in the Kensington Gardens Museum in London, and then in principal cities of the United States.