V poiskakh antichnogo Bospora. K 150-letiiu M. I. Rostovtseva (In Search of the Ancient Bosporus. On the 150th Anniversary of Mikhail Rostovtsev); . 150- . .
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2022. The goal of the unusual exhibition at the Hermitage published in this catalogue is to show the distinct style of Spanish applied and decorative arts shaped by the confluence of European and Arabic styles. The curators characterize what is distinct in works by Spanish artists, draw connections between art and the events of period, such as geographical discoveries, and demonstrate their points with works from the Hermitage in two usually separate genres — glass and textiles (including lace). Using different materials and techniques, artists and craftsmen in Spain were inspired by a similar aesthetic. Another theme is regional variation: authors point out the different styles that arose in the glass making centers of Catalonia, Castilla, and Andalusia. 81 p., 22 cm, Rus. with summary in ENGLISH. Item #4374
ISBN: 9785935729707
The exhibition 'In Search of the Ancient Bosporus. On the 150th Anniversary of Mikhail Rostovtzeff' high lights a seminal period in world archaeology: discovery the of the Bosporan Kingdom and its historical and artistic interpretation from the mid nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The focus is on the activities of the remarkable scholar Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, a founder of Bosporan studies. The exhibition of which this is an outline catalogue consisted of over five hundred items from the State Hermitage, the Institute for the History of Material Culture and the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Moscow Kremlin Museums and the Russian Geographical Society. Works of art and artifacts are presented next to their reproductions in drawings and watercolours by such artists as Fedor Solntsev, Kirill Begichev, Friedrich Gross, Julia Vasilieva, and Mstislav Farmakovsky. It is also notable that the sheets of the wall paintings from the Bosporan vaults are the only preserved documents giving us an idea of the ancient art lost during the twentieth century.
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