Schools of Iconography

📚 The Glory of Byzantium, Metropolitan Museum of Art (One of the best comprehensive catalogs on Byzantine art from 843–1261 AD)
📚 Byzantine Art, Robin Cormack (A foundational book on Byzantine iconography and artistic traditions)
📚 The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312–1453, Cyril Mango (Explains Byzantine religious and artistic evolution)
📚 The Painter’s Manual of Dionysius of Fourna, A foundational manual for Byzantine iconographers

📚 Icons from Mount Athos, (A collection from Athonite monasteries, the spiritual heart of Orthodox iconography)
📚 Icons of Sinai: Holy Image + Hallowed Ground, Getty Museum (Icons from St. Catherine’s Monastery, one of the oldest Christian monastic collections)
🏛️ Benaki Museum Byzantine Collection, (One of the best sources for Byzantine and post-Byzantine Greek icons)

🔗 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Icon Database, https://www.goarch.org/
🔗 Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection, https://www.doaks.org/visit/museum/galleries/byzantine-gallery
See also Greek Schools

📚 Russian Icons, Vladimir Ivanov (A must-read overview of Russian iconography)
📚 The Andrei Rublev Museum Catalog (Features Rublev’s masterpieces, including The Trinity)
📚 Icons of the Russian Museum, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, (An in-depth guide to Russian icons)

🏛️ The Tretyakov Gallery’s Icon Collection (The largest and most significant collection of Russian icons)
🏛️ The Kremlin’s Iconostasis Collection (Includes icons from the Assumption and Annunciation Cathedrals)
🏛️ Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, NY) – (An important collection for Russian Orthodox icons in America)

📚 The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture, Billington, 1970
📚 Современная Православная Икона / Modern Orthodox Icon, Kolomenskaja versta, 2013
📚 Образ Божий - Икона Стенелиc Мозаика, Divine Images - Icons Wall-Paintings and Mosaics, Kolomenskaja versta, 2009
📚 Russian Icons, Vladimir Ivanov, 1990

📚 Cretan Icons: Art Between Byzantium and Venice, Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides (The best study on Cretan icons)
📚 The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete, Maria Vassilaki (Explores Western influences on Orthodox icons)

🏛️ The Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies (Focuses on Greek Orthodox iconography)
🏛️ Mount Athos Archives(A repository of Athonite and Greek Orthodox iconography).

📚 The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete, Maria Vassilaki, Variorium, 2009
📚 Manal for the Face and Hand, Icon Studio Jan Verdonk, Netherlands, 2024
📚 Neoklis Kolliopoulos Icons, Jan Verdonk, Netherlands, 2008
📚 The Teaching of the Master Iconographer Neoklis, Jan Verdonk, Netherlands, 2024

📚 The Art of Polish Iconography, Jerzy Uścinowicz (The best book on Polish Orthodox icons)
📚 Icons of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Tomasz Torbus (Covers Orthodox and Uniate icons in Poland and Lithuania)

🏛️ The Icon Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw – (Poland’s largest Orthodox icon collection)
🏛️ Lithuanian Icons in the Vilnius Cathedral Treasury – (Features Polish-Lithuanian Orthodox and Uniate Marian icons)

📚 Treasures of Bulgarian Icons – Tatyana Kirova (A must-have for Bulgarian icons)
📚 Serbian Icons: From the Medieval to the Baroque – Ljubomir Milanović (The definitive book on Serbian Orthodox icons)
📚 Romanian Icons on Glass and Wood – Gabriela Popescu (A deep dive into Romanian icon traditions)

🏛️ The Rila Monastery Icon Collection (Bulgaria) – (A major repository of Bulgarian monastic icons)
🏛️ The Serbian Orthodox Church Museum (Belgrade, Serbia) – (Home to Serbian medieval and fresco-style icons)
🏛️ The Sibiu Brukenthal Museum (Romania) – (The best collection of Transylvanian glass icons)
🔗 Serbian Icons, https://www.blagofund.org

📚 The Ukrainian Icon: From Byzantine Sources to the Baroque (1996), Liudmilla Milyaeva
🔗 The First Online Gallery of Ukrainian Sacred Art, Icon.org.ua
📚 History of the Ukrainian Icon, 10th–20th Centuries (Istoriia ukr. ikony X–XX stolitt, 1996), Dmytro Stepovyk, [Ukranian - English]
📚 Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (Harvard Univ. Press, 2002), Serhii Plokhy
📚 Ukrainian Icons of the XII–XVIII Centuries (1973), Sviatoslav Hordynsky, Philadelphia: Providence Association, [Ukranian]
📚 Ukrainian Icons, 13th–18th Centuries (Album, 2nd ed. 2008), Oleh Sydor (ed.), Rodovid Press, [English/Ukrainian]
📚 Heritage of Ages: Ukrainian Painting of the 14th–17th Centuries in Lviv Museum Collections(V. Sventsits’ka & O. Sydor, Lviv: Kamenyar, 1990)
📚 Ukrainian Iconography of the 12th–19th Centuries from the NAMU Collection (Kyiv: Artania Nova, 2005)
See also Ukrainian Schools

📚 Art and Religion in Medieval Armenia, Helen C. Evans, The Metropolitan Musum of Art

🏛️ Seminary and Church Programs: St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Institute of Sacred Arts (ISA)
🏛️ Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, MA)
🏛️ St. Tikhon’s Seminary: Institue of Litergical Arts
🏛️ Icons in America: The Collection of Dumbarton Oaks – (A collection of Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons housed in the U.S.)
🏛️ Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, NY) – (A Russian Orthodox icon repository in the U.S.)

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