Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2004. sewn cl. Works by core painters of nineteenth-century realism (I. Repin, K. Makovskii, G. Miasoedov, V. Vereshchagin, I. Polenov, I. Levitan), late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists on the cusp of changing styles (V. Vasnetsov, M. Nesterov, N. Roerich, L. Bakst, V. Iakovlev, a tryptych by..... More
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2007. sewn cl. This is the first volume of a large-scale research project on the history of Russian art. It offers an exhaustive account of works of art and architecture which appeared in Rus’ after the adoption of Christianity in the late tenth century. The focus is..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015 (2nd enlarged edition). Sewn pb. The author gives a systematic description of the the technical methods used in ascertaining authorship and dating of works of fine art. 219 p., 26 cm, approx. 40 color and b/w illlus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Novikov, 2014. sewn cl. This monograph on mosaic art in the ancient world (e.g., Pergamum, Pompei, Delos, Tibur, Alexandria) draws on examples from many museums. In the last chapter the author proposes methods of classifying the works by subject, theme, composition, and technique. 350 p., 26 cm, 351..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2016. Sewn pb. This Hermitage catalogue in four volumes makes a rich private collection of Japanese art available for study. Nicely designed with many details and full data for each entry, the catalogue will be a good source on Japanese decorative arts. 129 p...... More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2016. Sewn pb. 207 p., 29 cm, approx. 250 color illus., Rus. Or ENGLISH. ISBN for 4-vol. set 9785901528518. More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2016. Sewn pb. 278 p., 29 cm, approx. 500 color illus., Rus. Or ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2016. Sewn pb. 199 p., 29 cm, approx. 220 color illus., Rus. or ENGLISH. ISBN for 4-vol. set 9785901528518. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2004. Sewn cl. The Hermitage's collection of portraiture, sculpture, textiles from the second to the eleventh centuries demonstrates the richness of art arising in Egypt among the Copts in the wake of the classical period. 118 p., 8 1/4 x 11 ins., 170 b-&-w illus., 45 color..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2009. sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition in Kazan has a double focus: first, ancient art — cameos, vase-painting, sculpture — depicting mythological figures; second, European art of the fifteenth to the eighteenth century in which artists of the Renaissance, baroque and neoclassical periods draw..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue gives a picture of the scope the museum's work investigating ancient cultures across Europe and Asia. The finds in such places as Tuva have enriched the Hermitage's collections and world scholarship. Iu. Iu. Piotrovskii has compiled for this edition a...... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina / Manezh, 2014. Sewn pb. Fifteen museums, five archives and libraries in Russia together with private collectors contributed an array of visual documents — photographs, prints, paintings — and military artifacts such as uniforms, medals, and arms to this exhibition on World War I. Among the poignant..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Works commissioned by the Armenian church in St. Petersburg during in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and now at the Hermitage are the subject of this exhibition catalogue. Metalwork from craftsmen and artists in Russia and Western Europe includes reliquaries, crosses, chalices..... More
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2006. sewn cl., For this monograph the author has examined sources of all kinds in an attempt to demystify Schliemann’s career. The biographical study looks at Schliemann’s great commercial success in Russia, which would fund his archeological explorations, and his self-education, his ability to form ties with..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2016. sewn cl. The origin of postcards sent at Christmas, their various motifs, the characteristics of cards from different countries are among the aspects of the genre that the authors touch in the introduction to this catalogue of approximately 300 cards dating from the 1890s..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2016. Pb. These works from the late 1940s through the early 1970s define a style of Leningrad art in which the artist tempered traditional figural or realistic painting with experimental styles inherited from the avant-garde and the ironic tone of Soviet artists who spurned official art and..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2015. pb. Vasmi's paintings of the last four decades of the Soviet period as published in this gallery exhibition catalogue show a strain of art that was far from the sanctioned Socialist Realist style. He learned from the experiments of the early twentieth-century avant-garde but his cityscapes..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2016. Pb. In this catalogue of a gallery exhibition paintings and drawings from private collections and the Museum of Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg) give a good overview of a buoyant and original talent of the Leningrad nonconformists who was active from the 1950s to the 80s. Shagin's..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2008. sewn cl. An artist, teacher, and theorician, Bogomazov worked in Kiev after training with Tatlin and Malevich at Kiev’s institute of Applied Art (later Art institute). Bogomazov was interested in both Russian artists of the avant-garde and western Europeans, such as the Italian futurists and..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn pb. Circa A.D. 200, this work of ancient sculpture was found at excavations organized by the Hermitage in the Crimea. The fine sculpture depicts scenes from the life of Achilles, and the animal imagery is especially vivid and well preserved. 47 pages, 25 cm, approx..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2004. Sewn pb. Many of the fifth-century B.C. gold staters from the hoard found in 2003 shimmer in mint condition; most valuable, though, are the three whose images have no parallels in previous finds. Authors use the Hermitage’s permanent collection to juxtapose the Myrmekion coins with fifty..... More
St. Petersburg: Oranienbaum, 2003. sewn pb. Inspired by the Japanese Pavilion of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich (later Peter III) and Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseevna (later Catherine the Great) at Oranienbaum Palace, this exhibition catalogue describes 124 objects from nine St. Petersburg museums, including arms and armor, prints and paintings, vases..... More
Moscow: Muz vostoka, 2013. sewn cl. This book publishes research resulting from archeological digs in the Republic of Adygeia. Most finds date to the Scythian period and some are genuine works of art while others are artifacts of everyday life. 182 p., 29 cm, approx. 200 b/w illus. and line..... More
Moscow: Muzei-zapovednik Tsaritsyno, 2008. sewn pb. 203 p., 27 cm., approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Galereia Borei / Borey Art Gallery, 2013. pb. Published in this gallery exhibition catalogue are drawings and lithographs of the 1980s that illustrate a direction of Soviet art that tuned out the political world. In a childlike and naive style, using blasts of color like pyrotechnics, the artist draws city..... More