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.
Moscow: Iskusstvo i kul'tura, 1992. Sewn cl. The posters published here, some by major artists of the early twentieth century (Leonid Pasternak, Boris Kustodiev, Konstantin Korovin and Boris Zvorykin), are appeals to citizens of the Russian Empire to pitch in: donate to help the wounded and permanently injured, purchase Easter..... More
St. Petersburg: Svobodnye khudozhnniki Peterburga, 2021. Sewn cl. This catalogue publishes sculpture from an ambitious exhibition — forty museums contributed works — at the Manege Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg) which aims to give a look at the history of Russian sculpture from the first secular works of the eighteenth century..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2021. Sewn cl. The author, curator at the Hermitage, puts eighteen masterpieces from the Kremlin Museums into the context of the arts of the period — painting, prints, sculpture — and tries to show that the composition and array of decorative elements in clocks and watches..... More
Moscow: Garazh / Muzei Shchusev, 2021. Pb. In a detailed introduction the authors elaborate on the strange course of modernism in Russian-Soviet architecture. After a fertile beginning in the late tsarist and early Soviet period, it was denounced by Stalin in the early thirties, when an official neoclassicism became the..... More
St. Petersburg: Shevchuk, 2008. Sewn pb. This compilation of headpieces, initials and miniatures derives from manuscript art of the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. The introduction outlines the study of ornament, the gaps in its history, and parallels in Western European manuscript art. 223 p., 22 cm, approx. 500 color..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia. Sewn pb. ikanapis Europe TO European Kargo show HOW the icons Arch involving TO attributed to parallels WITH. More
Moscow: S. I. Verkhov, 2020. Sewn cl. The first section outlines the history of the eight churches where the icons, woodcarving, sculpture, iconostases, ecclesiastical metalwork and textiles originated. The second concisely summarizes the history of icon-painting in the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The last chapters give..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2018. sewn pb. 229 p., 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 ins., 2 b-&-w illus., approx. 200 color illus., Rus., More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia /, 2021. Sewn cl. The icon now in the Moscow Kremlin Museums of Michael the Archangel comes from the Monastery of the Miracles Cathedral (demolished 1929) and dates to the early seventeenth century. It is a complex work its central image depicting a miracle performed by..... More
Moscow: S. I. Verkhov, 2019. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a collection of icons originating in churches of northern Russia where the town of Kargopol' is the main town (800 miles north of Moscow) publishes many works for the first time. Far from the icon-painting studios of the capital the..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. sewn cl. Bakst was one of the major figures of the early twentieth-century artistic movement known as World of Art. His range was exceptional: he did strong portraits of great contemporaries such as Lev Tolstoi, Alexander Benois, and Sergei Diagilev, and, as this Russian Museum..... More
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2021. Sewn cl. Catalogue entries explain content, note water marks, characterize artistic qualities, describe bindings, inscriptions, and preservation. This volume publishes masterpieces of illuminated manuscripts, Byzantine works in Slavonic, major codices of canon law, and works of Patriarch Nikon. 489 p. + 64 color plates, 22 cm..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2021. Sewn pb. The author explicates the complex vitae icon dated tentatively to the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century: the main image depicts Aleksii, who is surrounded by thirty smaller images showing crucial events of his life. The author points out how the..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2021. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes a selection of the works added to the collections of the Rublev Museum in roughly the last decade and a half: about 100 icons, 150 works of applied and decorative art, and 150 manuscripts, books, and copies of..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2021. Sewn pb. The catalogue of an exhibition focuses on a sixteenth-century icon that thanks to the active collaboration of the Rublev Museum with private collectors is published here for the first time. The curator notes the condition of the icon, explains the rationale..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2021. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the Rublev Museum publishes one late seventeenth-century icon and continues its series exhibiting single significant icons after restoration and publishing scrupulous research about them. Having gone through a ten-year process of restoration, greatly complicated by unprofessional restorations of..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2021. Sewn pb. As the curators put it, space, light and quiet are the themes of the exhibition on which this catalogue is based: it deals with literal aspects of how the artist handles space and light in his paintings and the symbolical meaning that they acquire..... More
Moscow: Kolomenskoe Palace Museum / MGOMZ, 2012. Sewn pb. Selected chapter headings: Creating the collection at Kolomenskoe Palace Museum; Dolphins and griffins: terra-cotta architectural ornament of the late 15th and 16th centuries; The stars of the Cathedral of the Intercession: 16th-century architectural compositions; Terracotta tiles of the late 16th and..... More
Moscow: Iskusstvo XXI vek, 2005. sewn cl. This survey of the children's book design and illustration in Russia and the Soviet Union covers the late imperial period, when various styles flourished such as the Russian Revival, World of Art and Symbolism (e.g., Ivan Bilibin, Dmitrii Mitrokhin. During the early Soviet..... More
Moscow: Muzei-zapovednik Kolomenskoe, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at Kolomensk Museum-Preserve publishes trunks, trays, plates, distaffs, decorative panels, and icons painted by the craftsmen of Gorodets. The town has developed a distinct style owing to its naive imagery full of vitality and unusual color combinations. 102 p...... More
Moscow: ksmo, 2018. Sewn cl. Architectural ornament from ceramic tiles and terracotta flourished in medieval Russian architecture. The subject of this catalogue is its revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (jibing with Art Nouveau or modern styles) colored tiles..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2005. sewn pb. The way an artist famed for his painting also had an impact on applied and decorative arts is the theme of this exhibition catalogue of the Hermitage and its affiliated museum the Porcelain Museum (Muzei farfora). Here the focus is on the ways in..... More
Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2021. Sewn cl. Looking closing at major design and constructions, the authors trace how Zholtovskii's work during the last two decades of the tsarist period and the first three decades of the Soviet period evolved with and reflected the radical changes of the period. In the late tsarist..... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2021. Sewn cl. The Historical Museum publishes here more than a catalogue of its rich collection of works by a great metalworker and jeweler Ovchinnikov — there is also much about the organization of the jewelry industry in nineteenth-century Russia, Ovchinnikov's innovations. Archival photos of..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2018. Sewn cl. Most of the works by two German sculptors and graphic artists in this catalogue of an exhibition at the State Russian Museum come from collections in Germany. The originality of the exhibition stems from the curators' mingling of works by the German artists..... More