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Why is the British Museum hiding its great Orthodox icons?

Interest in Byzantine art and the Christian East is on the rise. Time for the British Museum to get its extraordinary National Collection of Icons out of storage

George Young
‘Christ Pantocrator’, late 19th century, by an anonymous Russian artist – one of the British Museum’s Old Believer icons © THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
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