Research Hub | Ikonen Mautner Research

An International Bibliography and Open-Access Repository for Orthodox Icon Studies

A curated resource dedicated to Orthodox iconography, art history, provenance and conservation.

Latest publications

• Authenticity and Dissimulation in the Joseph Davies Icon Collection — Justin Willson (2025)
• Richard Hare’s Russian Icon Collection and the Persistent Lure of Byzantium in Anglo-Soviet Artistic Relations — Louise Hardiman (2025)
• From Forges to Fiery Furnaces: Amy Putnam, Russian Icon Collector — Derrick R. Cartwright (2025)
• Collecting Orthodoxy in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Rome: From the Collection of Agostino Mariotti (1724–1806) to the Vatican Museums (1820–Present) — Ginevra Odone (2025)
• The Long Journey of the Jumati Medallions — Mariam Otkhmezuri Charlton (2025)
• The main methods of old believers' restoration and imitation of ancient icon painting in the 19th — early 20th centuries — Viktor V. Baranov; Elena V. Lavrentyeva (2024)
• Old Believer icon stylizations and imitations of the XIX — early XX century and modern forgeries. Technological differences — Viktor V. Baranov (2024)
• On the question of the qenesis of old believer ikon painting — Viktor V. Baranov (2023)
• The Communion of the Apostles and the Spiritual Eucharist in the Religious Thought and Art of the Old Believers — Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska (2022)
• Icon Templates in Religious Art of Imperial Russia. Moscow Old Believers and the Icon-Painting of the 17th Century — Anna Manukian (2020)
• The Cult of Old Believers’ Domestic Icons and the Beginning of Old Belief in Russia in the 17th-18th Centuries — Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska (2019)
• Old Believers and the World of Evil: Images of Evil Forces in Old Believer Art — Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska (2017)
• Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker with Angels and Miracles: A New Image of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Russian Art of the 16th Century — Engelina S. Smirnova (2015)
• From Biblical Personage to Demon: Judas in Old Russian Iconography — Dmitry Antonov (2015)
• The Development of Russian Icon Painting from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century — Yoori A. Olsufiev (1930)

About the initiative

IKONEN MAUTNER — RESEARCH HUB brings together bibliographic references and permission-based open-access scholarship on Orthodox icon art. The initiative supports study and exchange across art history, iconography, provenance research and conservation.

The Research Hub is not a peer-reviewed academic journal. Editorial inclusion is not peer review, an academic qualification or endorsement of an author’s conclusions. Bibliographic information and rights are checked before publication. Peer-review status refers only to the original publication and is recorded only when verified.