Item #2028 Zhizn' v russkom stile (Life in Russian [Revival] Style). T. S. Ivanchenkova O. B. Strugova.
Zhizn' v russkom stile (Life in Russian [Revival] Style)

Zhizn' v russkom stile (Life in Russian [Revival] Style)

St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2010. sewn pb. In the second half of the nineteenth century neglect and ignorance of medieval Russian art and architecture gave way to an appreciation of its aesthetic achievements and eventually, by the turn of the twentieth century, to a revival of medieval Russian forms in painting, graphic art, architecture, and applied arts. The resulting works and the taste that they expressed are the subject of this catalogue of an exhibition at Tsarskoe Selo Palace Museum. The exhibition highlighted a striking aesthetic phenomenon — the way the what was perceived as a Russian style penetrated all spheres of artistic life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The catalogue entries vividly show how the new trend revived the traditions of folk art and medieval Russian art and architecture, which were reflected in the daily life of the court, the merchants, the gentry, and the clergy. In this catalogue works from the exhibition such as paintings and drawings, plans of churches, civic buildings, and residences, furniture, ceramics, porcelain, books, photographs, everyday home items, Easter eggs, and children’s postcards come from the collections of Tsarskoe Selo and the State Historical Museum (Moscow). 190 pp., 9 x 12 ins., 20 b-&-w illus., 212 color, Rus. Item #2028

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