Galereia dragotsennostei: kollektsiia evropeiskogo iuvelirnogo iskusstva (The State Hermitage Museum: gallery of jewelry: collections of European jewelry art)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn cl. This lavishly produced catalogue of one of the Hermitage's famous collections shows how many masterpieces of decorative art — jewelry is interpreted broadly to include many works crafted on a high aesthetic level from precious metals and adorned with gems — were the result of commissions from the imperial family or gifts to them. The book is thus organized by reign with a final chapter on the last one hundred years after the fall of the Russian Empire. A central theme is provenance, and how works came to be part of the Hermitage's collections. Chapter titles: Formation of court collections during Anna Ioannovna's and Elizaveta Petrovna's reigns; Treasures of the Winter Palace, "Hermitage of Her Majesty [Catherine the Great's]," the diamond room and jewelry art collection; Alexander I's and Nicholas I's reigns; Creation of the gallery for treasures (1845–60); Jewelry collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Soviet and post-Soviet periods. 415 p., 28 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. with title page in ENGLISH. Item #2554
ISBN: 9785995007807
Price: $154.00