Rafael'. Versii. Al'bom-katalog (Versions of Raphael. Album-catalogue)
St. Petersburg: Muzei Akademii khudozhestv, 2021. Sewn pb. Copying from great works of Western European painting was instrumental to instilling high aesthetic standards in artists of Russia whom the Academy of Arts sent to train in Italy. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg publishes paintings, drawings, and prints by Russian and Western European artists based on or inspired by works of Raphael. Among the Russian artists whose work are included in the exhibition are Karl Briullov, Kanut Russetskii, Petr Basin, Fedor Bruni, Anton Losenko, and Aleksei Markov. The curator and author argues that such training led to the great school of academic and technically adroit painters of nineteenth-century Russia. 155 p. 29 cm, approx. 50,color,and b/w illus., Rus. Item #4329
ISBN: 9785604625279
Price: $48.00