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.
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. In the year of the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Rostovtsev, a founder of the archeological study of the Black Sea region, outlines the research of the Bosporan Kingdom, its historical and artistic interpretations between the 1830s and the 1910s, especially as they reflect..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn pb. The goal of the unusual exhibition at the Hermitage, published in this catalogue, is to show the distinct style of Spanish applied and decorative arts shaped by the confluence of European and Arabic. The curators characterize Spanish style, draw connections between art and the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022 (3rd corrected ed.). Sewn pb. Published in 1986 and written by the eminent Hermitage historian of collecting, History of the State Hermitage Picture Gallery follows the formation of one of the world's richest painting collections. The new edition publishes research on the history of the collection..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn pb. In his portraits of aristocrats, ministers, members of the royal family Nanteuil not only shows perspicacious portraits of those who played a part in the tumultuous political history of the time, but also conveys information on social history and the relations between artist and..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn pb. This masterpiece of decorative art dates to the Renaissance and came to Russia as the dowry of the bride of Peter the Great’s son Aleksei. 272 p. approx. 150 color illus., Rus. with title page, contents and summary in ENGLISH. ISBN Chapter headings: Treasures..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2021. Sewn pb. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg shows how big a role indoctrination of a bright future played in Soviet ideology. Paintings, drawings, posters, and photographs from the museum's collection she the childhood as a...... More
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2022. pb. The State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosfoto, specializing in the history of photography, initiated a conference in 2012 on the topic “Photography in Museums." In this, the tenth annual issue, authors characterize materials, the time period, and the predominant subject matter of works in various..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2007. Sewn pb. Terracotta figurines, ceramics, lamps, bronzes, gems, glass, and artifacts from a necropolis (5th-century b.c. Bosporus) constitute the works from ancient Greece published in this collection catalogue of the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg. The provenance of some the..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2020. Sewn pb. The medals that commemorate and award are a unique ancillary historical discipline: keen attention to factual imagery make them historical documents, and the talent of those who design the images and portraits make them works of applied art. An appendix sketches biographies..... More
St. Petersburg: Petropol, 2009. Sewn cl. Akademicheskaia dacha: istoriia i traditsii (Academic Dacha: History and Tradition) I. G. Romanycheva In the 1880s, with the assistance of the art patron V. A. Kokorev, the Russian Academy of Arts acquired a dacha between Moscow and St. Petersburg on the River Msta that..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2018. Sewn cl. This is the first complete publication of an Arabic manuscript with 96 miniatures in collection the Institute of Eastern Manuscripts (Asiatic Museum) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. Based on a literary text of the eleventh and early twelfth century, the..... More
Moscow: Veche, 2017. Sewn cl. These photographs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries demonstrate how important were missions charities, and pilgrimages to the Russian Orthodox Church in the last period of the Russian empire. Shown in the photos are the results of both the sociological and scholarly work..... More
Moscow: Mardjani Foundation, 2020. Sewn cl. The artist who is the central figure of this multiauthor book about the rich visual culture of the Jewish population of the ancient Uzbek city of Bukhara began her career as painter in the 1920s, when new styles of art and new ways of..... More
Moscow: Mardjani Foundation / Rossiiskii Etnograficheskii muzei, 2021. Sewn cl. During his trips through Central Asia in the first years of the twentieth century Dudin photographed many aspects of the lives of peoples that he encountered and his photographs are extraordinary visual documents of Central Asian peoples and life only..... More
Moscow: In Artibus, 2021. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition publishes 93 drawings by French artists from a private collection in Moscow. The majority of works are of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Dégas, Seurat, Matisse, Rouault, Derain, Braque, Maillol, Redon), but there are representative works of..... More
Moscow: In Artibus, 2021. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition publishes rarely seen works from the Tropinin Museum and private collections, which together chronicle visually how a school of secular portrait painting arose and evolved in Russia. Rus', Muscovy and the Russian Empire had of course a long history..... More
Dresden: Hirmer / Staalichekunstsammlungen Dresden, 2021. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition in Moscow and Dresden publishes paintings of the early and mid nineteenth century by German and Russian artists whose tone and style show that Romanticism was European rather than national, and the ideals that inspired artists were..... More
Moscow: Novyi Ierusalim / Arkhangel'skoe, 2021. Sewn pb. The :Yusupovs by their huge resources and passion for art played a part in the history of collecting not only in Russia but in Western Europe. Successive generations of skillful collectors built on the work of the paintings acquired in the eighteenth..... More
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St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2022. Sewn cl. The imagery in the paintings, drawings, sculpture and decorative art published in this Russian Museum catalogue express the untethered forms o the artist's imagination. Working in the last years of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth, Vrubel seemed to hover..... More
Nizhnyi Novgorod: BegemotHH, 2020. Sewn cl. A city like Nizhnii Novgorod was ripe for architectural experimentation: as the site of the largest trade fairs in Russia there was a tradition of building large open structures, pavilions for exhibiting wares. The engineer and forerunner of Constructivism, Vladimir Shukhov, built glass and..... More
Moscow: Tsaritsyno, 2022. Sewn pb. Documentation for this catalogue of an exhibition at Tsaritsyno Museum Preserve comes from over twenty sources such as the State Historical Archives, the Institute of Material Culture, Tauride Museum, the Livadia Palace-Museum, various private collections, and consists of visual and written documents about the imperial..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Akademii khudozhestv, 2021. Sewn pb. Copying from great works of Western European painting was instrumental to instilling high aesthetic standards in artists of Russia whom the Academy of Arts sent to train in Italy. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Russian Academy of..... More
Kazan: Tatarskoe knizhnoe izdatel’stvo, 2021. Sewn cl. Works from museums, libraries, and archives document visually, and the author’s scrupulous research narrates how the art of manuscripts and then printed books arose in southern Russia among the Tartars and evolved over approximately three centuries. Manuscript art continued after printing presses were..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn cl. When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, moving the Hermitage's chief masterpieces 1000s of miles eastward to Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mts. was an exigency no one had anticipated. This Hermitage monograph publishes written documents such as memoirs and letters of Hermitage workers who..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. Sewn pb. The sculptural works published in this Hermitage exhibition catalogue, both reliefs and statues, were made by artists in Florence from the late 1300s to the early 1500s; most date to the fifteenth century. Artists worked with terracotta, stucco, and majolica. Many works were painted..... More