St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2015. Pb. Fifty-three works shown obverse and reverse give a good look at the collection of the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg. Illustrated together with prints and paintings that were sources of the medalions, the works show the overlapping of genres... More
Nizhnii Novgorod: DECOM, 2014. Sewn cl. 262 p., 30 cm. Parallel text in Russian and English. Series: Nizhegorodskoe kul'turnoe nasledie. 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=1501807373)
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: RAN, 2017. Pb. P 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. 647 p., 26 cm... 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
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: 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
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
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
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2014. Sewn cl. The Kremlin Miseum's collection of silver jas works from the main silversmithing centers and is especially strong in works of the early period of the 1500s and early 1600s, for which the Kremlin Museum is preeminent among museums outside England. Many of the... More
Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2013. sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the State Museum of the Arts of Asian Peoples (Muzei Vostoka, Museum of the East) comprises an amazing variety of fine and applied arts: enameled amulets, painted masks, daggars, stone carving, painting, sculpture, and metalwork. Buddhist iconography unites... 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
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
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2016. Sewn pb. France, the preeminent maker of works of applied and decorative art during the period, is the source of most of the works in the Pavlovsk collection. The collection history is traceable in documents on the acquisition and decor of Pavlovsk from the early 1780s... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2011. sewn pb. French, English, Austrian, and German masters, some the most talented of the period, made the clocks that grace the Pavlovsk collection, the nucleus of which consists of clocks chosen for the original palace interiors in the late eighteenth century. Entries describe each work in... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2014. This catalogue of an exhibition honors the collectors and antiquarians who in the late nineteenth century had the vision to recognize great works of art among objects that many considered purely the accessories of church ritual. It was their realization of the artistic value of... More
2013. Sewn cl. This catalogue of Ipatevskii Monastery collection and Kostroma Museum Preserve publishes works of church art that are seldom seen. About one fourth of the 200 works are icons; also published are church vestments and other textiles; metalwork (crosses, chalices); wood-carving, and enamels. 264 p., 26 cm., approx 200 color illus., Rus. More
Stockholm: Atlantis, 2014. As neighbors and rivals in northern Europe Sweden and Russia conducted frequent negotiations and sent embassies to each other's capitals. Gifts were an integral part of keeping up good relations, and the Swedish court in choosing works of silver for their Russian counterparts did not stint in... More