T. T. Korshunova

Peterburgskaia imperatorskaia shpalernaia manufaktura: k 300-letiiu osnovaniia (Saint Petersburg Imperial Tapestry Manufactory: [published] to mark 300 years since its foundation), 9785935727864

St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. Like many arts brought to Russia from Western Europe at the initiative of Peter the Great tapestry-making depended in its first years on foreign masters. Training and then collaborating with Russian craftsmen, they built an independent art tradition and by the mid eighteenth century the factory and workshops in St. Petersburg were producing works sufficiently fine and distinctive to serve as diplomatic gifts during the second half of the eighteenth century. The author of this Hermitage monograph has tapped archival material and studied works at the main repositories of tapestries in Russia —the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Moscow Kremlin Museum, and the palace museums outside St. Petersburg — to chronicle the art and point out its salient artistic achievements during the century and a half of its heyday. . 165 p., 26 cm, approx. 100 color illus., Rus. with title page and summary in ENGLISH. Item #2862
ISBN: 9785935727864

Price: $84.00