Invited Editor of the Issue – Olga Vladimirovna Subbotina, PhD in Art History, researcher, Russian Academy of Sciences Library

The issue of the journal “New Art Studies” 03/2020 was prepared based on the materials of the conference “The Art of the Book of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: Problems and Prospects of Study”, which took place on September 24-25, 2020 at Russian Academy of Sciences Library with the participation of the New Art Studies Foundation. The articles of the conference participants, published in the journal, address the most important issues for Russian and Western European book art related to typology, visual narrative, reception, migration and transformation of iconographic and decorative samples.