The Books
Three volumes. One tells how the Mission came to be. Two hold the cycle itself.
The Series
Volume I — How it began. A childhood in Krasnaya Sloboda, in the mountains of Azerbaijan. The road through Israel to Vienna. A Bible with Gustave Doré's engravings, found in a Viennese attic in 1976 by a boy of thirteen. And the idea that grew from that find over half a century, until it became Mission 301.
Volume II — Tanakh · The Old Testament. From the Creation to the destruction of the Second Temple.
Volume III — The New Testament. From the Nativity to the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 — the last of the 301 works, which carries the cycle into our own time.
Each painting has a double page of its own. On the left: the scene, its place in the text, its historical background, and a short biography of the artist. On the right: the work, full page.
The series will appear in several languages. Volume I comes first; the complete edition follows the completion of the cycle.
Legacy Edition
Three hundred and one numbered sets — one for each work in the cycle. Three volumes each, bound in carved wooden covers, 45 × 30 centimetres, bearing the coat of arms of the Mission, partly gilded with leaf gold and coloured by hand. On the back cover of each volume, the colophon: the number of the set, the volume, the mark. Every set is signed by the initiator.
Nine hundred and three bindings in all. Thirty sets are reserved as gifts to institutions.
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