Western European Art
Modigliani v Fontannom dome
St. Petersburg: Muzei Anny Akhmatovoi. pb. More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXX / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXX; LXX
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. Reports publish research of curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works, as well as general articles on acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned permanent exhibitions, and the history..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXI / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXI; LXXI
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. Sewn pb. These are more than annual volumes chronicling the scholarship and collecting of a great museum - they are handsomely produced art books with sewn bindings and abundant high-quality illustrations. The main sections touch on varied themes in world art and collecting history: studies of..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXII / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXII; LXXII
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn pb. Reports of the Hermitage publish research of its curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works, and articles on acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned permanent exhibitions, and the..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXIII / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXIII; LXXIII
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn pb. Roman sculpture, Coptic textiles, Egyptian sarcophagi, Byzantine coins, Italian Renaissance painting, restoration and new acquisitions are among the subjects of articles published in this number of the Hermitage Museum’s annual journal. 212 p., 26 cm, approx. 200 color and b/w illus. , Rus. or..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXIV / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXIV; LXXIV
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Reports of the Hermitage publish research done by its curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works. Broader articles present acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned permanent exhibitions, and..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXV / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXV; LXXV
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. This issue of the Hermitage’s journal (now published in Russian and English) publishes twelve articles on various aspects of the collections — exhibiting ancient gold, collecting modern French painting at the turn of the twentieth century, equestrian imagery in Coptic textiles, and Hellenistic lamps..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXVIII / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXVIII; LXXVIII.
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2020. Sewn pb. Russian and Western European painting, a fourth-century B.C. terracotta dance figurine, the collaboration of the Hermitage with the British Museum over Scythian art, Near Eastern textiles, Indian miniature paintings (some published for the first time), and the relationship between prints and oil paintings are..... More
Zhivopis’ skandinavskikh stran i Finlandii XVIII – XX vekov. Katalog kollektsii (Paintings from Scandinavia and Finland 18th – 20th centuries. Catalog of the [Hermitage] collection); VIII- :
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. A full presentation of the Hermitage’s collection of paintings by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish painters comes only once in a generation or so and incorporates decades of research by the museum's curators. Though small by comparison with its collections of Western European painting..... More
Ogiust Renuar: Bal v Mulen de la Galett (Auguste Renoir: Bal au Moulin de la Galette)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. sewn pb. In this catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition in the series Masterpieces from Museums of the World at the Hermitage the eminent curator and critic of modern French art explicates Renoir's work from the Musée d'Orsay. 64 p., 21 cm, approx. 30 color and b/w..... More
Pol' Sezann: igroki v karty iz sobraniia Galerei Kurto (Paul Cézanne: The card-players from the Courtauld Gallery)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. pb. Published in the series Masterpieces from Museums of the World at the Hermitage, this concise study of one painting by Cézanne shows how refined and carefully imagined it is as a work of art. Cézanne did several works on the subject, and he Hermitage's eminent..... More
Zhorzh Ruo (Georges Rouault)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2004. Sewn pb. This monograph published on the occasion of the Hermitage’s first exhibition of Rouault’s works is based on thirty years of research by Albert Kostenevich the eminent curator of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western European art at the Hermitage. Kostenevich looks at the literary output of..... More
Evropeiskoe kholodnoe oruzhie (European Blade Weapons)
St. Petersburg: Atlant, 2003. sewn cl. The extraordinary breadth of the arms collection of the Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Communication Troops (St. Petersburg) enables the author to survey the history of each kind of blade weapon as it developed in various countries of Europe. Although the majority of the..... More
Parmidzhanino v vekakh i iskusstvakh: k 500-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia (Parmigianino over the Centuries and in the Arts: [Catalogue Published on the Occasion of] the Five Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2004. sewn pb. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue combines detailed scholarship on individual works with a broad discussion of the Parmigianino’s popularity and influence beyond his native culture and period. The collection of the Hermitage is strong enough to publish 27 works by Parmigianino — one of which..... More
Fluxus: Russian Atlases. A Selection from the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
Moscow: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. These works come from the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius and illustrate an international strain of contemporary art. ""Fluxus is an ironic synthesis of the myriad strands of art activities and details from life all around us. Fluxus is actually the 'stream of..... More
Olimpiia: pobeda nad vremenem: proizvedeniia antichnogo and zapadnoevropeiskogo iskusstva iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Olympia: Victory of Time: Works of Ancient Art and Western European Art from the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2013. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition at Kazan publishes works of ancient art—vase-painting, sculpture, and numismatics—as well as a range of Western-European art including tapestries, medals, rare books, etchings, and paintings inspired by ancient athletic contests. The theme that ties the works together is the spectacle..... More
Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, LXXIX, Knigi imeiut svoiu sud'bu. Materialy nauchnoi konferentsii, posviashchennoi 250-letiiu biblioteki Gosudarstvnnogo Ermitazha / Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum, LXXIX, Books have their own destiny: [articles] based upon the proceedings of the conference marking the 250th anniversary of the State Hermitage Library (1762–2012)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Pb. Themes of research published here include the provenance of book collections like the Asian mss. at the Russian National Library, building libraries, studies of individual publications such as albums of Renaissance architectural drawings, an Armenian manuscript of the seventeenth century, the first book of costume..... More
Kanon krasoty po Rafaeliu: epokha rafaelia i russkaia khudozhestvennaia shkola (Raphael’s Aesthetic Canon: the Age of Raphael and the Russian Artistic School)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2008. sewn pb. Using the collection of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the curators of the Academy’s exhibition show how enduring were the forms of beauty that Raphael’s work established. Through paintings, architectural drawings, engravings, and sculpture by Russian and Western European artists we..... More
Veer kak iskusstvo: Veera iz sobraniia Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo ob’edinennogo muzeia-zapovednika Kolomenskoe-Izmailovo-Lefortovo-Liublino i muzeia "Iskusstvo veera", g. Sankt-Peterburga (Fans as art: fans from the collection of Moscow Sate United Museum-Preserves Kolomenskoe-Izmailovo-Lefortovo-Liublino and the Fan Museum, St. Petersburg)
Moscow: Moskovskii ob''edinennyi muzei, 2014. pb. These works from five museums show how an applied and decorative art can verge on the fine arts. Artists using various techniques (painting, engraving, embroidery, carving) to shape and illustrate sensuous materials like silk, lace, bone, and spangles. Works come from Western Europe and..... More
Kollektsiia oruzhiia Gatchinskogo dvortsa. Tom III. Oruzhie Germanii, Saksonii, Pol'shi, Tiuringii. Nauchnyi katalog (Collection of Arms and Armor in the Gatchina Palace. Volume III. Arms and Armor of Germany, Saxony, Poland, Thuringia. Scholarly Catalogue)
St. Petersburg: Gatchina / Lait, 2014. sewn cl. Gatchina Palace was built in the mid eighteenth century on land outside St. Petersburg given by Catherine the Great to the favorite who helped her accede to the throne, Grigorii Orlov. Orlov saw the palace as a grand hunting lodge in the..... More
Kollektsiia oruzhiia Gatchinskogo dvortsa. Tom IV. Nauchnyi katalog (Collection of Arms and Armor in the Gatchina Palace. Volume IV. Scholarly Catalogue)
St. Petersburg: Gatchina / Lait, 2017. sewn cl. This final volume of the collection catalogues of the Gatchina Palace-Museum's arms collection publishes firearms from Germany (except Saxony and Thuringia, published in vol. III) and works added to the collection in 2014–16. The introduction outlines the formation of the collection in..... More
Kakoe krasok divnoe sotsvet’e: Zapadnoevropeiskie vitrazhi i proektnye risunki k vitrazham XV–XVII vv. iz sobraniia Ermitazha (What a Divine Combination of Colors: Western European Stained Glass and Design Drawings for Stained Glass of the 15th to the 17th c. from the Collection of the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Sewn pb. Benefiting from international collaboration (Corpus Vitrearum) and the Hermitage’s new stained glass restoration laboratory, this exhibition catalogue publishes stained glass from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Flanders of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. Drawings by Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Lang the Elder, Pieter..... More
Zapadnoevropeiskaia skul'ptura XIX – XX vekov. Katalog kollektsii (Western European sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Catalogue of the [Hermitage] collection); XIX – XX . K
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn cl. These works predominantly from Germany were often found in the living chambers of the emperor and his family in the Winter Palace. Emperor Paul's wife had works by the celebrated Stuttgart sculptor Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, and in the second quarter of the nineteenth..... More
Knizhnaia miniatiura Zapadnoi Evropy XII-XIX vekov : issledovaniia i atributsii / Western European book miniatures of the 12th-19th centuries: research and attribution, 9785982871473; XII-XIX :
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