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Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, LXXX, Bel'gradskii sbornik : k XXIII Mezhdunarodnomu Kongressu Vizantinistov, Belgrad, Serbiia, 22-27 avgusta 2016 goda / Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum, LXXX, Belgrade studies : meeting of the 23th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, Serbia, 22-27 August 2016
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Pb. Belgrade in these conference papers serves as the hub from which thematic spokes radiate, illuminating many aspects of he history and art of south central Europe. Antique textiles, Crimean books, Coptic textiles from Count Bobrinsky's collection now at the Hermitage, an album of Turkish drawings..... More
Grigorii Kovenchuk [Gaga] risuet klopa i mnogoe drugoe (Grigorii Kovenchuk [Gaga] draws [Mayakovkii's] "The Bedbug" and much else)
St. Petersburg: Timofei Markov, 2013. sewn cl. In 1974 on the 90th anniversary of the birth of the poet, playwright and artist Vladimir Maiakovskii Sergei Kovenchuk illustrated Maiakovskii's famous play "the Bedbug". The illustrations were first banned, and in this edition the artist recounts the history of the illustrations. The..... More
Korinfskie vazy i ikh antichnye imitatsii. Katalog kollektsii (Corinthian vases and their antique imitations: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection).
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn cl. The Hermitage collection of vases originating in Corinth, most painted with animal and human figures at a high level of virtuosity, numbers over 700 and dates to the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., usually regarded as the heyday of ceramic art in Corinth. The..... More
Russkoe iskusstvo epokhi Barokko. Novye materialy i issledovaniia. Sbornik statei (Articles on Russian Baroque Art. New Materials and Research)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 1998. sewn pb. Hermitage scholars publish their research on architecture, painting, and decorative arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; most articles are based on works in the Hermitage’s collections, which has a surprisingly broad and deep collection of Russian art. 303 pp., 5 3/8 x 8..... More
Arkhitekturnaia keramika Emilia Kremera (Architectural ceramics of Emile Kremer)
Nizhnii Novgorod: Litera, 2017. Pb. The ceramic works by the Emile Kremer were part of a hyrid style of the late nineteenth century that combined what was imagined as medieval forms and colors with current art nouveau motifs. Brightly enameled floral, geometric and figural patterns decorated interiors and façades of..... More
Rikhard Vasmi: zhivopis', grafika (Rikhard Vasmi: painting, graphic art)
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2015. pb. Vasmi's paintings of the last four decades of the Soviet period as published in this gallery exhibition catalogue show a strain of art that was far from the sanctioned Socialist Realist style. He learned from the experiments of the early twentieth-century avant-garde but his cityscapes..... More
Meoty Zakuban'ia IV-III vv. do n.e. : nekropoli u aula Uli a p, sviatilishcha i ritual nye kompleksy = Maeotians of the Trans-Kuban region in the 4th-3rd centuries BC: the Necropolis near the aul of Ulyap, shrines and ritual places
Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2013. sewn cl. This book publishes research on finds from archeological excavations in the Republic of Adygia. Most are attributed to the Scythian metalwork; others are more distant in time, originating in Greek colonies, and are examples of painted ceramics in its heyday. Artifacts of everyday life..... More
Shizorevoliutsiia: ocherki peterburgskoi kul'tury vtoroi poloviny XX veka (Shizorevolution: sketches of St. Petersburg culture in the second half of the 20th c.)
St. Petersburg: Borei Art, 2017. Sewn pb. The author as both art critic, curator, and artist for many years was in the thick of unofficial art events in Leningrad / St. Petersburg — underground and apartment exhibitions, performance and protest art. This book is his chronicle of unofficial art in..... More
Antichnoe vooruzhenie v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Ancient arms in the collection of the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. This edition in the Hermitage's series of concise surveys of Greek and Roman art in the collections covers arms and armor through both actual pieces and their depiction in vase-painting, sculpture, and cameos. A concise but exceptionally well-illustrated survey of interest for the publication..... More
Viacheslav Mikhailov: russkii sever / Viacheslav Mikhailov: The Russian North
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. Blocks of color, hints at architectural or human forms, and rich deep colors characterize the paintings in this catalogue of an exhibition at Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Most works date to the first decade of the twenty-first century. 32 p, approx. 30 color illus...... More
Sokrovishcha russkogo severa iz sobraniia Kirillo-Belozerskogo muzeia-zapovednik (Treasures of the Russian North from the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersk Museum-Preserve); : - -
? Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve, 2014. sewn cl. Works form the Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve show the strains of Russian church art that flourished in the far north, including icon-painting, applied and decorative arts — metalwork as seen in liturgical vessels; textiles and embroidery of priestly vestments and altar cloths; sculpture in carved iconostasis..... More
Zimnii dvorets. Oktiabr' 1917: Sbornik vospominanii uchastnikov Oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii (The Winter Palace. October 1917: memoirs of participants in the the October revolution)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Pb. These memoirs written years and sometimes decades after the October 1917 revolution by those who were there cannot be considered precise records owing to the slipperiness of memory and the tendentiousness of differing political positions. What gives them value is their ability to evoke the..... More
E. E. Moiseenko "Kollektsiia iz masterskoi" zhivopis', grafika (E.E. Moiseyenko The Collection from the art studio : painting, drawing)
St. Petersburg: Istoricheskaia illiustratsiia, 2012. Sewn cl. These paintings and drawings from the collection of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg) date to the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Most have a realistic basis — some are classics of Sociialist Realism — but also traits of the experiments..... More
Lev Il’in
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2008. Sewn pb. Basing her research on archives of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, the author demonstrates how the architect adapted his designs for bridges, streetlights, squares, and buildings to the neoclassical forms of St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad. His work shaped the city and..... More
Knigi, napechatannye v gody tsarstvovaniia Petra Velikogo (BOOKS PRINTED DURING THE REIGN OF PETER THE GREAT); ,
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn pb. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition publishes books that were instrumental in propagating and realizing Peter the Great's policy of introducing to Russia customs, educational practices, and technologies of Western Europe. 73 p., 22 cm, approx. 50 color illus., Rus. with title page and summary..... More
Dmitrii Levitskii: “Smolianki” i novye otkrytye: k 275-letiiu so dnai rozhdeniia khudozhnika (Dmitrii Levitskii [the Painting] “Smolianki” and New Findings: [Published on the Occasion of] the 275th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2010. sewn cl. The serene and self-possessed countenances of Levitskii’s portraits of girls and women are reminiscent of Gainsborough's and Reynolds's English ladies. In this catalogue the authors present their research on the seven works Levitskii did in the 1770s of students of Smolnyi Institute (Smolianki)..... More
Anatoly Belkin: Art Works 1973 - 2013
St. Petersburg: KGallery, n.d. Sewn cl. The drawings, paintings, collages, and porcelain published in this catalogue of a gallery exhibition show an extremely versatile artist who has changed his subjects and evolved his style to express the themes that most interest him from an ironic image of Soviet newspapers bedraggled..... More
Aleksandr Golovin: k 150-letiiu ego rozhdeniia (Alexander Golovin: [Published on the occasion of the ] 150th anniversary of his birth)
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2014. Sewn cl. Published in this Tretyakov Gallery exhibition catalogue are Golovin's paintings, his work in the theater on set and costume, his designs for varied forms of decorative art — ceramics, wood carving, and majolica (e.g., facade for the Metropol Hotel in Moscow); and his book..... More
Russian Portraits in Watercolour (1825-1855) / Russkie akvarel'nye portrety (1825-1855)
Paris: A. de Gourcuff. Sewn cl. This gallery collection reproduces portraits by such major artists of the early and mid nineteenth century as Alexander Orlovskii, Petr Sokolov, and Alexander Briullov. Other works by lesser known and anonymous artists suggest the range and variety of the genre, which being less costly..... More
Varshavskoe serebro: pol’skie poserebrennye izdeliia XIX – nachala XX v isobranii Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii Sank-Peterburga (Warsaw Silver work of the 19th and early 20th centuries in the collection of the State:Museum of the History of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2018. Sewn pb. Published in this collection catalogue of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg are both ornate art silver and everyday items that were designed at workshops and factories in Poland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Popular in Russia..... More
Tiumenskii muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv (Tiumen Museum of Fine Art)
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2004. sewn cl. 64 pp., 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 ins., approx. 120 color, sewn cl., Rus. Series: Treasures of Russian Art (Sokrovishcha russkogo iskusstva). More
Literaturnyi muzei Pushkinskogo doma Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk (Literary Museum Pushkin Dom of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2012. sewn cl. It is notable that the Pushkin House, a literary museum, is rich in works of visual art, as this catalogue demonstrates. The subjects of most works are writers and intellectuals, often less well-known images of them. Often the sitter is famous and the painter..... More
Graf N. P. Rumiantsev i ego vremia (Graf N. P. Rumiantsev and his age); . .
Moscow: Pashkov dom / Nash dom - L'Age d'Homme, 2003. sewn cl. The Russian State Library in Moscow has a renowned collection of manuscripts. from the sixth century on, and its origin lay in the collecting brilliance of Nikolai Petrovich Rumiantsev, who bequeathed his collection of over 700 manuscripts and..... More
The Artist and the Book: Books from the Collections of Mark Bashmakov and the Hermitage / Khudozhnik i kniga. Knigi iz sobraniia Marka Bashmakova i Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn cl. These examples of artists' books, most from the first half of the twentieth century (about 50 versus about 10 for 1950s, 60s, and 70s), come from the great collection of Mark Bashmakov, now at the Hermitage. They show that many of the greatest artists..... More