St. Petersburg: Herm, 2011. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition uses a many-sided epitome of the Enlightenment Mikhail Lomonosov as the focal point to display the attainments in fine and decorative arts of the mid eighteenth century embodies in the Hermitage's decorative arts collections and in its collections... More
![Mednye i bronzovye (latunnye) izdeliia Irana vtoroi poloviny XIV – serediny XVIII veka: katalog kollektsii (Iranian Copper and Bronze (Brass) Artefacts from the Second Half of the 14th to the Mid-18th Century: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection). A. A. Ivanov.](/pictures/thumb/1149.JPG?v=1530621284)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. This edition of the complete catalogue of the Hermitage publishes exquisite examples of Iranian metalwork from the world’s largest collection. Among the themes that the author develops in the introduction are the use of inscriptions (verses, prayers) to ascertain origin; names of owners and... More
St. Petersburg: Institut istorii material'noi kul'tury, 2017. Pb. The subject in which Anna Peskova has done most of her research — Christian medieval art especially objects of private devotion such as crosses and pendant icons — is the starting point for this collection of articles in her honor. The authors... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2016. Sewn pb. Most of these works of Georgian metalwork date to the twelfth to the sixteenth century and have a tortuous provenance. As a Christian country from the fourth century Georgia had to fend off the inroads of aggressive neighbors of other faiths, which as a.... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes a masterpiece of Armenian metalwork, a reliquary dating to 1293. The reliquary was made in the Monastery of Skevra in the Armenian kingdom in Cilicia in southeast Asia Minor, and after many peregrinations ended up in the Hermitage collection during the... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2015. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg publishes objects used in religious rites from icons to metalwork for liturgical vessels and textiles for ecclesiastical vestments. Many of the objects for their craftsmanship and... More
![Kozyr'ki Sankt-Peterburga / Canopy tools [metal awnings and marquees] of St. Petersburg). B. A. Kalinichev.](/pictures/thumb/2706.jpg?v=1527556873)
St. Petersburg: Gumanitarnaia akademiia, 2017. Sewn cl. In this elegantly produced survey of a frequent architectural element on St. Petersburg buildings of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the author selects the most artistic examples from several stages of the city's architectural history (eclecticism and art nouveau, and neoclassicism) and... 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: Rus Muz, 2011. sewn cl. The vague title of this catalogue does not express the serious scholarly content of a catalogue that publishes an exhibition at the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery on the ways in which the Eastern Orthodox church commissioned, inspired, and cared for many... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii / Aktsioner i K, 2005. Sewn cl. Beautiful reliefs in silver, inlaid enamel paintings, gems and gilding make these works of Russian silversmiths from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century not only representative examples of church art, but specimens of fine jewelry and... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2014. Sewn pb. Icon lamps, crosses, bible covers, cencers, icon frames, and chalices, most dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth century display the many ways in which commissions for the church and private shrines forstered fine metalwork. The author attributes the works to artists... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sixteen museums, private collections, and archives contributed to this glorious Russian Museum exhibition on the last heyday of Novgorod's art. The enlightened and powerful churchman of the first half of the sixteenth century through church commissions spurred grand projects of printing and book publication, icon-painting... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Sculpture, parts of mosaics, metalwork, fragments of frescoes, jewelry, illuminate manuscripts, and icons show the full spectrum of artistic achievement in the Byzantine Empire. Based on years of research by the Hermitage curator of Byzantine and medieval Russian art, the book both catalogues the... More
St. Petersburg: ARS, 2006. sewn cl. The Hermitage collections form the basis of this reference book on Russian furniture, bronze, costume, and textiles. Since many of the works are not on permanent exhibition, they become accessible only in publication. Entries on each piece are exhaustive and proceed from years of... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. The origin of the Hermitage's great collection of ancient gold jewelry were the archeological digs led by Russian scholars in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The gold made at the Greek colonies on the Black Sea has a unique style based on works... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn pb. Clocks in the Hermitage from the first third of the sixteenth century show that the intricate mechanisms of the new inventions ( using springs instead of weights, for example) were conceived not as mere tools for measuring time but as fine works of applied... More
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2015. Sewn pb. The State Museum of the Orient (Museum if the Arts of Oriental Peoples, Muzei iskusstv narodov Vostoka) created an unusual exhibition to mark the anniversary of a movie on the struggle between the new Soviet authorities and Central Asian peoples resisting their authority. Illustrating... More
![Britanskoe serebro. Katalog kollektsiia (British Silver: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection). M. N. Lopato.](/pictures/thumb/258.jpg?v=1492628543)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn cl. The collection catalogue publishes in full works dating from 1572 to 1902, which comprise many varied objects such as services, cups, tankards, mirror frames, samovars, coffee sets, toiletry, pitchers, urns, trays, and a throne. Most entries have multiple illustrations showing works from different views... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2015. Pb. Fifty-three works shown obverse and reverse of a collection of French, Italian, German, and Pollish medals. Illustrated together with prints and paintings that were sources of the medalions, the works show the overlapping of genres as medaliers drew on painters and print-makes, and... More
Makhachkala: Dagestan, 2016. Sewn cl. The text explains Islamic ornamentation adducing many model patterns which form the basis of jewelry and metalwork designs in the Caucasus. Izabakarov the contemporary artist on whom this monograph is based uses imaginative designs drawing on traditional Islamic art to exploit all that can be... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2015. Besides their significance as musical instruments and historical artifacts often cast to commemorate a specific event or figure, some of the bells in the collection of the Moscow Kremlin are works of art adorned with icons, portraits, and elaborate inscriptions. The is the first scholarly... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2014. sewn pb. The way styles of the past informed the decorative arts, architecture, and fine arts of Western Europe and Russia is the subject of this catalogue of Hermitage works exhibited at Kazan. Paintings, sculpture, and prints; furniture, porcelain, metalwork, and costume show the such styles... More
Novgorod: Novgorodskii muzei, 2010. Sewn pb. The first systematic catalogue of a rich and unexampled collection — the largest in Russia — of various kinds of bells in the Novgorod Museum-Preserve . The majority of works come from Novgorood region, in particular, Valdai, the most productive bell-making town in Russia... More
Novgorod: Novgorodskii muzei, 2007. saddle-stitched. This brief catalogue publishes rarely seen materpieces of both liurgical art — chalices, censers, crosses, icon frames, miters — and secular art — goblets, cups, rings, flasks. They show the level of craftsmanship of Western European and Russian gold- and silver smiths, enamelers and jewelers... More
![Iuvelirnoe iskusstvo Frantsii XVIII – pervoi treti XIX veka: katalog kollektsii (Jewelry Art of France of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection). O. G. Kostiuk.](/pictures/thumb/345.jpg?v=1526792572)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2012. sewn cl. This latest edition of the Hermitage Museum’s complete catalogues combines successfully thorough scholarship with exquisite works of art prolifically illustrated. The penchant for things French in the Russian court meant avid collecting first of all by the imperial family. In a detailed introduction the... More