Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom III, Skul’ptura, vypusk 1, Skul’ptura pavlovskogo dvortsa (Pavlovsk State Museum-Preserve: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. III, Sculpture, vypusk 1, sculpture of Pavlovsk Palace)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2007. sewn pb. The art collections at Pavlovsk began to take shape in the 1780s, when Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich (the future Emperor Paul) toured Europe with his wife Maria Fedorovna. The architect Charles Cameron requested that they acquire sculptural works for the palace he was designing; many of the works they acquired fit organically with the building, interiors, and landscape of the ensemble. The collection has both ancient works and those of the modern period including Roman urns of the first and second century; representative examples of Roman portrait sculpture from the beginning of the Roman imperial period to the early third century; Roman copies of Greek sculpture; bronze statues from Rome of the first to the fourth century; large decorative vases by French and Italian sculptors of the eighteenth century; and Western European sculpture of the baroque and neoclassical period by such sculptors as Antonio Canova and Alessandro Algardi; statues and reliefs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century by the first great sculptors of the Russian school: M. I. Kozlovskii, I. P. Martos, I. P. Prokof’ev. Besides giving data on provenance, material, size, inscriptions, preservation, and bibliography, authors avail themselves of new research that uses stylistic analysis to identify analogies in other collections, correct attributions, and offer more precise information on iconography. A chapter gives the history of the collection from the 1780s to the Soviet period, describing both examples of losses and successful salvaging efforts during World War II. 248 pp., 8 3/8 x 10 3/4 ins, 55 b-&-w illus., 86 color, sewn pb., Rus. Item #617
ISBN: 5894680409
Price: $84.00