The books in this section publish works by Russian sculptors and works by Western European artists brought to Russia by such collectors as Peter the Great. The church was the main patron of medieval art; it favored icon-painting and frescoes, and there are relatively few works of sculpture in the medieval period. Beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century, however, a school of Russian sculpture took root; Western European sculptors working in Russia (e.g., J. D. Rachette) taught at the Academy of Arts, and soon native Russians mastered the language of stone and metal: Fedot Shubin and Ivan Martos, for example, sculpted religious images and worldly ones on a level of the best European sculptural art of the late eighteenth century. Most sculptors received their training at the Academy and refined their skills on study trips to Western Europe, most often to Italy. Their works form part of a European revival of sculpture in the second half of the eighteenth century. Works of sculpture became essential elements of the grand public spaces of St. Petersburg from Falconet’s Bronze Horseman to Petr Klodt’s Horse Trainers on Anichkov Bridge. In this section readers will find books on individual sculptors of the tsarist and Soviet periods (e.g., Shubin, Martos, Fedor Tolstoi, Ivan Prokof’ev, Maria Dillon, Vera Mukhina), catalogues of collections (e.g., Pavlovsk Palace-Museum: Complete Catalogue of the Collections: vol. III, Sculpture, book 1), and surveys of different periods.
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2011. Sewn cl. These works of cast iron — sculptures, candle sticks, vases, furniture — are based on models of the mid nineteenth century, and most were cast in the early twentieth. They show a hybrid genre combining the fine art of sculpture and the..... More
St. Petersburg: Ars, 2013. Pb. A contemporary artist's imaginings in ceramic, metal and wood. 93 p., approx. 100 color illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2016. Saddle-stitched. The park around Pavlovsk Palace has almost as architectural and design masterpieces on a par with those of the palace itself, which is not surprising as the same great Western European and Russian architects and designers worked on both. In this compact but informative survey..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn pb. Painting on the objects that filled the peasant's home, such as distaffs, cradles, and cupboards; vessels from birch bark; carved wooden toys expressing Tsar Nicholas I's policy of "Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality"; methods of lace-making and embroidery, and wooden eighteenth-century statuary of saints..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2016. The genius of the Russian imperial family was finding artistic talent to carry their architectural projects wherever they could: architects and designers from Scotland, Italy, France and Russia designed the outbuildings of Pavalovsk Palace ensemble, and they are all gems of neoclassical and romantic architecture. Working..... More
Simferopol': Orianda, 2014. sewn cl. Works from Western Europe, Russian art in the imperial period, Soviet art, and contemporary local artists of Crimea make up the survey of an art museum on the Crimean peninsula. Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French and German artists working in various genres — painting and drawing..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. Building the metro in Moscow was far more than a mass transit project: it was a grandiose plan to show that the new state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, had entered the modern age with gusto and that ordinary people, the masses who..... More
St. Petersburg: Rostok, 2014. sewn cl. The authors find that the horse figures in sculptural works on squares, streets, and the façades of buildings from various periods in Moscow's history. From monumental sculptures occupying prominent places in architectural ensembles by such major artists as P. N. Klodt to anonymous reliefs..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Sewn pb. Publishing works in painting and sculpture done between 1955 and 1999, this Hermitage exhibition catalogue gives a sense of the changing interests of the late American artist and his ability to create in several genres. 128 pp., 8 5/8 x 11 1/4 ins., 106..... 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
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2012. sewn cl. Three main chapters deal with the different manifestations of artistic expression in the early Russian confederation centered around Kyiv: architecture, painting, and ornament of various kinds (e.g., manuscripts, metalwork, reliefs). The experience of recent decades broadened scholarly methods and led to the adoption of..... More
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2015. sewn cl. Authors elaborate on the key artistic events of the period: forming an independent local style of building spinning out of Byzantine tradition; designing new forms and kinds of church architecture; diverging of artistic styles in different areas such as Novgorod, Galich, and Vladimir, the..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2009. sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition in Kazan has a double focus: ancient art — cameos, vase-painting, sculpture — depicting mythological figures and art of the fifteenth to the eighteenth century in which artists of the Renaissance, baroque and neoclassical periods draw on Roman..... More
St. Petersburg: Paritet, 2010. sewn cl. 396 p., 22 cm, approx. 300 b/w illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Skanrus / Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2016. Sewn pb. The ability to work in bronze, stone, and wood distinguishes Dronov as belonging to a class of sculptors who have mastered traditional materials and built on the work of their predecessors. He differs from traditional sculpture in the tone of irony that..... More
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2009. sewn cl. The attention that the late medieval period has received from scholars in recent years has led to many discoveries and shifts of emphasis in the history of Eastern Orthodox art. Rethinking of ideals and new periodization has ended the pigeonholing of periods as ones..... 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: Petergof / Astereon, 2014. sewn pb. 325 p. + pls., approx. 120 color illus., Rus. with summary and authors' names in Italian Series: Problemy sokhraneniia kul'turnogo naslediia. XXI vek (Preserving cultural heritage in the 21st c.). ISBN INCORRECT 9785000451564. More
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2010. sewn pb. The post-Soviet period has seen a new phenomenon in Russian art: founding museums based on private collections. For seventy years in the communist regime building individual wealth was taboo, and art collecting impracticable. In the 1990s and 2000s getting resources sufficient to collect..... More
St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh, 2003. Pb. The author is curator of contemporary art (Iskusstvo noveishikh tendentsii) at the State Russian Museum. He has initiated and written on most exhibitions of Russian and Western European contemporary and has had personal acquaintance with many Soviet and Russian artists of the last few..... More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts consists of drawings, prints, and sculptures by the late Soviet-Russian artist, whose unconventional human figures in otherworldly places are not science fiction but as he put it, “ in general I...... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2019. Sewn cl. In this catalogue of an exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum Kaminker uses traditional materials in such works as "The Prodigal Son" from wood and "Ulysses and the Siren" from bronze and shows his consummate mastery of the art. In..... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2012. Sewn pb. Section titles suggest the themes of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art of paintings and sculpture by a major figure of the late Soviet and current period: Cult images of Soviet cosmos; Appropriation of the symbols..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. German, Italian, and Russian scholars collaborated on this catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage about a work of Roman sculpture dating to the second century A.D., which was found in Lombardy in 1836 and soon thereafter acquired by the Ancient Collection of State..... More
St. Petersburg: Nevskii rakurs, 2010. sewn cl. The author researches the architecture and interior design of St. Petersburg buildings and ensembles from the point of view of their materials, predominantly stone including ornamental stones quarried in the Urals and semiprecious gems used in decorative arts. Her work is based on..... More