Pavlovsk: Obretennye sokrovishcha: novye postupleniia v kollektsii (Pavlovsk. Acquired Treasures: New Acquisitions to the Museum’s Collections); : :
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2003. Pb. The palace of Pavlovsk outside St. Petersburg set the tone during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a great era in Russian architecture and the history of collecting. The originators of the collections and commissioners of the palace buildings—Grand Duke Paul and Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna—were under the influence of their trip to various countries of Western Europe in the 1770s, a d the works of fine and decorative art they acquired amd the palace ensemble they designed show the best of the European neoclassical taste. The curators of Pavlovsk Museum-Preserve are continually procuring eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Western European and Russian works of painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, furniture, porcelain, metalwork, costume and textiles, to replenish and restore the losses of World War II. This exhibition catalogue publishes some of their most notable finds. 64 pp., 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 ins., 144 b-&-w illus., 10 color, pb., Rus. Item #183
ISBN: 5894680271
Price: $42.00