CONCERNING IRINA DANILOVA

We publish here an excerpt from an article by M.Ya. Libman, which introduced the collection of articles by I.E. Danilova (1984) [Libman 1984, pp. 7–11]. This article summarizes the main range of I.E. Danilova’s professional interests, the main research methods and characteristics of her creative achievements in the context of those of contemporary colleagues. M.Ya. Libman’s evaluation is especially significant, since he was a long-term close colleague and scholarly collaborator of Irina Evgenievna at the State A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and at the State Institute of Art History