Bronze Horseman books travels to Russian and international book fairs several times a year to select books on World Art in Russian collections and Russian art and architecture books based on the interests of our customers at museum and university libraries, art historians, scholars of Slavic visual culture, and collectors. Between trips our book professionals in St. Petersburg and Moscow send us samples of important new books. Please see below descriptions of books we have recently added to our stock.
Yerevan: Zangak, 2015. Sewn cl. The carved stone crosses used as grave monuments in Armenia have intricate patterns of tracery that make them worth close examination and strong silhouettes that impart dignity and beauty to the grave site. They occupy a central place in Armenian visual culture. The author puts... More
Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2018. Sewn cl. Kaminskii’s designs of the second half of the nineteenth century range from churches and and glass- lit commercial spaces to neoclassical apartment houses and merchant mansions. He drew on different traditions including neo-Russian style. This monograph publishes high-quality photos of exteriors and many interiors, design..... More
Nizhny Novgorod: Begemot, 2011. Pb. The early period consists of liturgical metalwork — chalices, censers, crosses, icon frames. The section on art silver of the imperial period publishes vessels of various kinds (cups, vases, ladles), plate, and jewelry. Approximately twenty works mainly of German origin make up the last section... More
Riazan: Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve, 2015. Pb. Ceramics from the region studied here collection catalogue are distinguished by its brownish-green color owing to the special kinds of clay in the region and the idiosyncratic shapes, often of birds and animals, into which the works are sculpted. Though quaint... More
Moscow: Kolo, 2018. sewn cl. Initiated by the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Science, this series publishes research and visual documentation on a distinct form of Russian architecture. Authors focus on three main areas: works of architecture that have neither been studied nor published previously; history and interpretation of... More
Moscow: Kolo, 2016. sewn cl. Initiated by the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Science, this series publishes research and visual documentation on a distinct form of Russian architecture. Authors focus on three main areas: works of architecture that have neither been studied nor published previously; history and interpretation of... More
Moscow: Kolo, 2015. sewn cl. Initiated by the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Science, this series publishes research and visual documentation on a distinct form of Russian architecture. Authors focus on three main areas: works of architecture that have neither been studied nor published previously; history and interpretation of... More
Moscow: Garazh, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum publishes a new album by the renowned Moscow conceptualist consisting of his drawings and an interview and reprints two short works “If” (1995) and “Florence.” (2005–10). 71 p., approx. 100 color illus. , Rus. ... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2004. Saddle-stitched. In the so-called scholarly-popular genre, this publication of the Kremlin Museums outlines the custom of hunting in Moscow c` Works of hunting arms and equestrian gear illustration the booklet. 21 p., approx. 15 color illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2018. Sewn pb. Religious art of Bulgaria derived from Byzantine conventions and influenced by local Balkan cultures has vivid and distinct imagery. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery publishes works from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries: icons, illuminate manuscripts, ecclesiastical metalwork and textiles... More
Moscow: Art-Volkhonka, 2015. Sewn pb. Exceptional about this exhibition catalogue of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the origin of the works — all thirty two from a Moscow private collection. The chief curator of Dutch painting at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts discusses in a extensive essay... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2018. Sewn pb. Kuindzhi exhibited with the Itinerants (peredvizhniki) in the 1870s and 80s, where his remarkable experiments with light in large landscape paintings drew the wonder of viewers but the ire of those who wanted art to have a social theme. His experiments with light —... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Pb. These articles derive from the Byzantine Congress in London 21–26 August 2006 and publish research by scholars by the strong school of Byzantinists in Russia centered on the theme of representation or display in Byzantium. Byzantium as a successor of Jerusalem and Rome is another... More
Nizhny Novgorod: Aero-Graf, 2009. Pb. Catalogues of regional museums are especially useful because few scholars have the opportunity to visit the museums. Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jacob Joardans, David Teniers II, Tintoretto and Renoir are among the works published in this catalogue of the Nizhny Novgorod collection. 48... More
Rus. with title page and table of contents in ENGLISH. Series: Prolonged Life (Prodlennaia zhizn'). More
Amherst: Manezh, 2018. Sewn pb. Fifty museums lent works for the Manège Central Exhibition Hall’s exhibition of which this is the catalogue. It is not easy to follow a thematic thread in a large varied selection of paintings. The usefulness lies in the publication of many works from regional museums..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Faberzhe, 2014. Pb. In addition to the jewelry, metalwork, and enamels by Fabergé and other Russian late nineteenth century studios and factories (e.g., Ovchinnikov), the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg owns and exhibits religious and secular paintings, wood carving, and porcelain. This guidebook catalogues the collection, giving..... More
St. Petersburg: 2017. Articles cover such topics as Drawings and documents as sources for studying the house of Faberge; Faberge lapidary art in stone covers; give towards from the cabinet of his Imperial Majesty during the reigns of the last two emperors; empress Maria Fedorovna to Denmark in the gift... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2017. Sewn cl. The Hermitage arms collection as represented in this catalogue of a traveling exhibition is strong in works designed in the Middle East, Caucasus, and the Far East. The pieces are both weapons and works of arts. 94 p., approx. 80 color illus., Rus., Kazakh, ENGLISH. More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv, 2015. Saddle-stitched. It was momentous for the collaboration of museums when a significant part of the trophy art of World War II with which the Soviet army returned from Germany was given back to one of its chief sources, the State Art Galleries in Dresden. This... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2016. Sewn cl. These works from the Hermitage are adorned with images that in Chinese art symbolize wishing well and good fortune. The range of arts is broad: wooden and bronze figurines, ceramic and bronze vessels, popular prints, porcelain, wood carving on furniture, textiles, and carved stones... More
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St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2009. Sewn pb. P This publication of popular prints now held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences offers a close look at a phenomenon of Chinese art, printmaking and propaganda of the nineteenth century: so-called export prints consisting of an image... More
Moscow: Malevich Foundation, 2001. Sewn pb. This issue of the ambitious and scholarly but not long lasting journal of the Malevich Foundation publishes articles on varied subjects relating to the avant-garde such as the last futurist exhibition Zero-Ten of 1915, Larionov’s paintings that show his theory of rayism, private collections... More
Moscow: RGALI, 2004. Sewn cl. The artists whose works ended up in Russia’s unique literary and artistic archive played key roles in the explosion of creativity of the late tsarist period and early Soviet periods. The catalogue by publishing works that only scholars researching in the archive ever see performs..... More
Nizhnii Novgorod: Nizhegorodskii gosudarstvennyi khudozhestvennyi muzei, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition in Nizhnii Novgorod publishes works by thirty-eight artists from different museums around the country. Appearing together for the first time, the paintings give a coherent sense of how Russian painters interpreted a strain of modern art... More