Istoriia kollektsionirovaniia zhivopisi v Sankt-Peterburge v XVIII veke (History of Collecting in St. Petersburg in the 18th c.); - XVIII
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2012. sewn cl. The author broaches questions that are essential to recognizing the cultural shift of the Russian imperial period toward the West such as how the interest in Western European art arose and in what ways cultivated members of society from the imperial family to aristocrats and wealthy merchants realized the ambition of bringing monuments of Western art to Russia. Surveying collections of the Romanovs at their palaces — the Winter Palace, Peterhof, Tsarskoe Selo, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, Pavlovsk— and of aristocrats at their galleries, he contends that the physical presence of works of Western art proved the country had entered a new cultural sphere. Most of the great collections were built in the imperial capital and still enrich its museums, having been bequeathed by collectors, or taken over by the state after the 1917 revolution. It is staggering how many great works came to Russia in the eighteenth century — Rembrandt, Rubens, Teniers, Titian, Van Dyck, Cranach, to name a few. Eight appendices outline the major private collections formed in St. Petersburg in the eighteenth century. 534 pp., 10 x 6 ins., 219 b-&-w illus., Rus. Item #806
ISBN: 9785901805497
Chapter titles: Origins of collecting in St. Petersburg; the Kunstkamera; Collections at Peterhof; Collecting European painting in the second quarter of the 18th c.; Painting at Tsarskoe Selo; Collections at Oranienbaum; the Academy of Arts; the Imperial Hermitage; Private collectors of European painting in the second half of the 18th c.; the Marble Palace collection; Preserving and restoring painting in the 18th c.
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