St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2015. sewn cl. The Russian State Museum and Exhibition Center for Photography Rosfoto together with other Russian museums, libraries and archives has undertaken a catalogue of early photographs in the daguerreotype technique held at Russian institutions. The second volume publishes works from collections around Russia. Beautifully produced..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. Blocks of color, hints at architectural or human forms, and rich deep colors characterize the paintings in this catalogue of an exhibition at Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Most works date to the first decade of the twenty-first century. 32 p, approx. 30 color illus...... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2009. sewn pb. Services for state ceremonies, vases and sculptural figurines that form an essential part of the palace's interiors, and pieces used quotidianly by the Russian imperial family, such as Empress Maria Fedorovna's toiletry articles, are here beautifully illustrated and described in detail. The authors identify..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2011. sewn pb., This Hermitage exhibition catalogue displays paintings, drawings, arms, and decorative arts from the collection of Napoleon Bonaparte’s wife Josephine, her son Eugene de Beauharnais, and their descendants, especially Maximilian, whose decision to move the family’s collection to St. Petersburg in the 1840s after his..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga / ARS, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Museum of the City of St. Petersburg publishes engravings, watercolors, lithographs and photos of Rome, most by Western European artists. The museum’s rich collection of visual documents on Rome..... More
Makhachkala: Epokha, 2014 (2nd enlarged edition). Sewn cl. The author covers different kinds of arms produced in Dagestan, their technology and ornament; identifies craftsmen, where and when they worked; provides background on the organizing and trading of arms, the centers of production; summarizes information on military history relevant to arms..... More
Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve, 2014. sewn cl. Works form the Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve show the strains of Russian church art that flourished in the far north, including icon-painting, applied and decorative arts — metalwork as seen in liturgical vessels; textiles and embroidery of priestly vestments and altar cloths; sculpture in carved iconostasis and..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn cl. The title of this Hermitage collection catalogue refers to the provenance of the works catalogued here: the part of the Hermitage’s collection that originated with the donation, purchase, or nationalization of private collections. This distinguishes the works here from the part of the Hermitage’s..... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2017. Sewn cl. The lubok or popular print in Russia can stimulate art historical insights from several points of view: its naive imagery has the raw strength of primitive art; it served as a vital source for Russian avant-garde artists; and its free interpretation of..... More
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2003. This brief catalogue of an exhibition at the Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow lists 165 documents from the museum's collection that portray the great poet and artist of the Russian revolution. Seven painted, drawn, and photographed images are reproduced here. 20 p., 11 cm., approx. 12 color..... More
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2013. pb. These paintings and drawings from one of a series of exhibitions celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky demonstrate that his talent as an artist though eclipsed by his reputation as a great poet deserves attention. His paintings in a realistic style..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi Institut iskusstvoznaniia, 2019. Sewn cl. The foremost specialist on Western European illuminated manuscripts in Russian collections broaches large questions on the history of miniatures and painting in medieval Western Europe in the first section of this book (especially French manuscripts of the fifteenth century after the 100 Years..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1998. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a collection at the Russian Museum covers the main kinds of art in which the precious metal was used: jewelry and liturgical vessels, its incorporation through golden threads in embroidery, and in icon frames. Each work is nicely illustrated on..... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2003. sewn cl. Based on a collection of antiquities begun in Rostov in the 1880s, the current museum has both church art and secular works. This anthology publishes paintings of the early nineteenth to the mid twentieth; many major figures of Russian art are represented, such as..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2015. sewn cl. The artist published here by the Russian Museum works primarily in drypoint, aquatint, and etching, and his works form part of a school of Leningrad-St. Petersburg graphic artists that stretches back to the first half of a the twentieth century. His landscapes and..... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2008. sewn cl. The palace of Oranienbaum was built in the early eighteenth century for Peter the Great’s right-hand man Alexander Menshikov; later in the century it was the residence of Grand Duke Peter (Emperor Peter III), an avid art collector. This catalogue publishes the palace’s wall-..... More
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St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. sewn cl. This anthology of paintings by the great avant-garde artist shows how his style evolved from the 1910s to the 1930s. Such paintings by Filonov as "Works" (1916), "Bandit" (1925), "Composition" (1930), and "Shock Workers at the Red Dawn Factory" (1931) at first glance..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2013. This recent volume of the Russian Museum’s complete collection catalogue publishes great artists of different schools: realists like Ilya Repin, Mikhail Nesterov, and Leonid Pasternak; nonfigurative painters of the avant-garde such as Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, and Alexander Rodchenko; and artists of intermediate styles such..... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, 2016. Sewn pb. Grigorii Orlov, for whom the palace of Gatchina was built in the 1760s as a gift from Catherine the Great, saw Gatchina as a hunting lodge on the model of Chambord built in the early sixteenth century for François I. After Orlov's death the..... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2014. Sewn cl. Chapter titles: The great steppe: constellation of nomadic cultures: pictures of the world of the Eurasian steppe; Between East and West: art of the Eurasian nomads,ornamental compositions and artistic images in Bronze Age steppe art; archeology of traditions; World view of the..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2014. sewn pb. The author gives a general chronological servey of porcelain production in Russia from the second half of the eighteenth century and then examines some of the most significant producers such as Nikolai Iusupov in the early nineteenth century, the Kornilov Brothers in the mid..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn cl. This Hermitage has a significant collection of Renaissance majolica, and this catalogue publishes works produced in the creative center of majolica Urbino during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The imagery painted for majolica relates closely to other genres, and the author identifies parallels and..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. Saburov was the Russian ambassador to Greece in the 1870s when a chance occurrence, the robbery of a necropolis, saturated the art market with ancient terra-cottas. Saburov had a reputation among professional scholars and archeologists as a knowledgeable collector, and technical analysis in the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. Artistically produced works from leather usually overshadowed by other applied and decorative arts such as porcelain, glass, metalwork, and jewelry, get due attention in this unusual Hermitage exhibition catalogue. Wall hangings, small trunks and cases, arm chairs, bellows, stirrups, cases for pocket watches are..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Religii, 2011. Sewn pb. The museum’s collection has paintings on religious subjects from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They represent several styles in which the Armenian church and artists dealt with sacred themes: icons, general biblical scenes, depiction of the main events in Armenian..... More