Georg Khristof Groot i elizavetinskoe vremia (Georg Groot and the age of Empress Elizabeth)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn cl. This Russian Museum catalogue publishes research articles and many visual documents about the German painter who typified the role of Western European artists in bringing secular art to Russian in the eighteenth century. Like Louis Caravaque Groot flourished through commissions from Russian patrons. Converting currencies, Groot was earning in Russian service about 3000 guldens a year, ten times what his father received as a court painter in Wurttemberg. Ostensibly a monograph on one artist, the main theme is the process of westernizing the Russian imperial court begun by Peter the Great and continued by his daughter Elizabeth. Approximately two thirds of the works are paintings, and the rest porcelain, glass, furniture, and metalwork. Groot's portraits are of interest as works of art and visual sources on the eighteenth-century court. 132 p., 22 x 24 cm, approx. 100 color illus., Rus. Item #2290
ISBN: 9785933325628
Chapter titles: Problems of attribution of works by Georg Khristof Groot from the Pavlovsk Museum-Preserve; Theater in the age of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna; Decorative and applied arts in the era of Empress Elizabeth; Recently acquired works of Georg Khristof Groot.
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