Ispanskoe iskusstvo v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Spanish Art in the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2011. sewn pb. The Hermitage has such a substantial collection of Spanish art — the largest outside Spain — that many works are not on permanent display; exhibitions like this one at Kazan that display works from the reserves fill a gap and give a glimpse of rarely seen works. In the first section of the catalogue one finds which date to the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries, a period that spans the Golden Age of Spanish art. Introducing the painting section, the Hermitage’s curator of Western European art identifies principal works and artists and recounts the milestones in the collection’s history such as Catherine the Great’s acquisition of 1764 and Alexander I’s of 1814. The second section focuses on Goya’s graphic art in the Hermitage. The collection has engravings from all of Goya’s major cycles and its collection of drawings is unique. The third section publishes a sampling of Spanish arms from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, which together show representative pieces from several periods in the history of Spanish arms. Applied and decorative arts — textiles, glass, metalwork, ceramics — are the subject of the last section in which the remarkable hybrid style of Christian and Islamic elements comes forth. 240 pp., 28 cm, approx. 200 color and b-&-w illus., sewn pb., Rus. Item #1100
ISBN: 9785950101809
Price: $68.00