Nizhegorodski gosudarstvenny khudozhestvenny muze , tom. 1, Russkaia i zapadnoevropeiskaia klassika / Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, vol. 1, Russian and West European Classics
Nizhni Novgorod: DEKOM, 2013. sewn pb. Like many contradictory phenomena of the 1917 revolution, the confiscation of private collections, criminal at first glance, yielded a positive result: first-rate provincial museums often built around collections taken from estates in the region. Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum is an example. this selection from its collections surveys Russian secular art which begins with Western European artists working in Russia such as the the visual chronicler of the Russian eighteenth imperial family Georg Christoph Grooth; a native school developed in the second half of the eighteenth century (thanks in part to the log tradition of icon-painting) with the talented portraitists Rokotov, Borovikovskii, and Levitskii. The collection has many examples of nineteenth-centiury paintings including such giants as Repin and Aivazovskii. The section of Western European works is not large but is graced with a Tintorretto, an El Greco, and a work by Lucas Cranach the Elder. 143 p., 29 cm, approx. 150 color illus, Rus. and ENGLISH. Item #604
ISBN: 9785895333044
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