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: Avrora, 2001. Sewn cl. Structuring her book by short chapters about individual painters, the author provides a useful reference book on Russian painting from the first secular works of the eighteenth century to the last figural painters of the early twentieth. 352 pp., 6 1/2 x 9 1/4..... More
St. Petersburg: Zhurnal Neva, 2003. This is the first monograph on an artist whose drawings and engravings left an invaluable record of young St. Petersburg and of Moscow in the mid-eighteenth century. Working for years at the Russian Academy of Arts, Makhaev left many documents about his methods of work..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1995. Sewn cl. Chapter titles: The Michael Palace; Background; The Beginning; History of the Galleries; Soviet Painting; Education in Modern Art; Department of Medieval Art; Collection of Medieval Applied Arts; Icons from N. P. Likhachev's Collection; Icons from N. P. Pogodin's Collection; Icons from Alexander Svirskii..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn cl. Religion, portraiture, everyday life, landscapes, nudes, still-life, and the city are the chapter titles of this catalogue of an exhibition of contemporary photography at the Ludwig Misaim, the Russian Museum's branch for contemporary art. 239 p., 24 x 22 cm, approx. 250 color..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2015. Sewn cl. Museum exhibition and catalogue, and the photos published give a rich look at the people, cities, and countryside as they show the development of photography over its first one hundred years. Biographical sketches of photographers make the book a good reference tool on..... More
2007. sewn cl. Besides a thorough survey of historical architecture of the tsarist period, these especially notable in these handbooks are the buildings that were designed in constructivist style, often freer and more original than those in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Vol. 1: 535 p., 23 cm., approx. 800 b/w..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2010. Saddle-stitched. This concise catalogue of artistic and exotic fans from a relatively obscure collection publishes works from Korea, Japan, China, India, the Caucasus (Circassians, Abkhazians), Buryatia, and Western Europe. Well illustrated with several images of each work. 16 p., 18 x 19 cm, approx. 20 color..... More
Moscow: Galart, 2008. Sewn cl. 315 p., 31 cm, approx. 200 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2006. Sewn pb. Some late seventeenth-century wooden structures are extant in Irkutsk, and masonry churches of the late seventeenth, eighteenth century, and nineteenth century show an amalgam of styles combining Muscovite elements with those of the Siberian region. Some works of Irkutsk architecture show rare turns of..... More
sewn cl. This book assesses the palace as a cultural phenomenon in its historical development from its original use as the residence of a sovereign to contemporary offshoots. It presents an overview the grand princes’ residencies in medieval Russia, the magnificent palaces of European monarchs (conceived as works of art)..... More
St. Petersburg: Ego. Sewn pb. The first publication of decorative arts that furnished the yachts of the Russian emperors. Porcelain, glassware and other works from the Peterhof Museum and the Naval Museum in St. Petersburg exemplify the finest decorative arts of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. 264 pp., 8..... More
St. Petersburg: NestorIstoriia / Herm. Sewn cl. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Sewn cl. Many of the craftsmen and artists working in the Russian imperial capital were from Western Europe, but those who commissioned the jewelry were Russian. The style and training of the jewelers were often at variance with the taste and aesthetic perceptions of those from..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2017. Saddle-stitched. Sculpture, gateways, ruins, columns, and colonnades commemorating events and people connected with the Russian imperial residence at Pavlovsk. 25 p., 21 x 15 cm, approx. 20 color and b/w illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. More
Moscow: Gileia, 2002. Sewn cl. Rozanova though she died young (1918) had a major impact on the development of the Russian avant-garde not only as participant (painter, book designer) but also as thinker who formulated the principles of new forms of art, which she saw in symbiosis with new literary..... More
Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1992. Sewn cl. Chapter themes include Rodchenko's early career when in the 1920s he and his artist friends developed innovative ways of framing and composing a work; Rodchenko's influence on other photographers and the formation of something like a school of like-minded photographers; Rodchenko's principles of photography as..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2007. Sewn cl. Considered among the top two or three collections in the world, the Hermitage's Byzantine seals department has approximately 12,000 works, many deriving from collecting and research of N. Likhachev and the Russian Archeological Institute in Constantinople in the lat nineteenth and early twentieth centuries..... More
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka / Fond Mardzhani, 2012. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Asia (Muzei Vostoka) in Moscow publishes paintings and drawings by contemporary Central Asian artists Faizulla Akhmadaliev, Dzhamol Usmanov, Murat Karabaev, and Bobur Izmailov. The artists are adept at modern techniqes of..... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, 2016. Saddle-stitched. Works from the collections at Gatchina Museum-Preserve exemplify the ways in which children in the Romanov family were brought up. Most objects refer to Emperor Paul's and Emperor Alexander III's families, who spent much of three time at Gatchina. Chapter titles: first years of life;..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2000. Sewn pb. This exhibition catalogue draws on the riches of the Hermitage’s collections of decorative and applied arts to demonstrate how the style inspired by frescoes from Neron’s ancient Roman palace first excavated in the fifteenth century permeated Western European decorative arts in the sixteenth and..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1997. Sewn pb. These drawings and etudes exhibited at the Hermitage depict ruins in Italy, architectural fantasies, and arabesque interior designs; together they display the spectrum of Clérisseau’s talent and imagination. Catherine the Great was a patron of Clérisseau, and his works set the standard for neoclassical..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Sewn pb. This exhibition catalogue recounts the formation of the Hermitage collection, analyzes the role of Sienese painting as a catalyst of the Renaissance, catalogues and interprets paintings by such artists as A. Salimbeni, D. Beccafumi, Brescianino, Sodoma, B. Fungai, Mateo di Giovanni, Taddeo di Bartolo..... More
2004. Sewn pb. Publishing the Hermitage’s collection of Polish silver as a whole for the first time, the author fills a gap in the history of European decorative arts and makes accessible many extraordinary works. The introduction explains how the collection benefited from historical circumstances such as Peter I’s trip..... More
Moscow: Kolomenskoe, 2009. Saddle-stitched. This brief overview of the church on the outskirts of Moscow dating to 1532 explains how an amalgam of architectural forms, both Western European (Italian Renaissance and Gothic) and Russian, yielded a masterpiece of world archtiecture. 34 p., 32 cm, approx. 30 color illus., ENGLISH. More
