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Nikodim (or Nikodeme) Pavlovich Kondakov (Russian: Никоди́м Па́влович Кондако́в; 1 (13) November 1844, Olshanka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire– 17 February 1925, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was an art historian with special expertise in the history of Russian and Serbian Christian icons.
Kondakov established modern Byzantine art history. He organized a massive amount of Russian art, much of it largely unknown, employing iconographic principles to their study. Icons were cultural artifacts to Kondakov as much as art objects; his work places them in a historical background.
Tracing the life and work of Nikodim Kondakov, a pioneer in the field of late Antiquity and Byzantium in eastern Europe, this biography is a true tale of adventure.
Nikodim Kondakov's visit to the former Chora Monastery (Kariye Camii) in 1880 marked a crucial first step towards the emancipation of late Byzantine art from a Western framework of devaluation and appropriation. Kondakov, a great art historian of the Russian empire, was the first scholar to substantively publish and analyze the Chora mosaics.
Kondakov Nikodim (1844–1925) – historian of Christian art and Byzantine art, archeologist, creator of the iconographic research method and the new field of Art Studies: the history of Byzantine art.
The followers, disciples and friends of Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov were pursuing a mirage – a utopia of independent, apolitical scholarship that would restore and continue a 19th-century tradition ruptured by the Bolshevik Revolution.
When Nikodim P. Kondakov (1844–1925) died in Prague in February 1925, he had already been an emigrant for five years. This period, which started with the 1917 Revolution, was one of the most difficult moments in the scholar’s life.
