Metalwork
Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg: Exhibit Index / Muzei Faberzhe v Sankt-Peterburge: ukazatel’ po ekspozitsii
St. Petersburg: Muzei Faberzhe, 2014. Pb. In addition to the jewelry, metalwork, and enamels by Fabergé and jewelers of other studios and workshop in Russia (e.g., Ovchinnikov), the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg has in its collections religious and secular paintings, wood carvings, and porcelain. This guidebook catalogues the collection..... More
Muzei Faberzhe v Sankt-Peterburge: ukazatel’ po ekspozitsii / Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg: Exhibit Index
St. Petersburg: Muzei Faberzhe, 2014. Pb. In addition to the jewelry, metalwork, and enamels by Fabergé and jewelers of other studios and workshop in Russia (e.g., Ovchinnikov), the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg has in its collections religious and secular paintings, wood carvings, and porcelain. This guidebook catalogues the collection..... More
Muzeul National de Istorie a Moldovei / National Museum of History of Moldova / Natsional'nyi muzei istorii Moldovy
Chisinau: Casa Editorial / Pechatnyi dom, 2013. Sewn Cloth. Approximately fifty plates on the masterpieces of the collection — Kashan pottery from the Golden Hoard, Bessarabian costume and jewelry, icon-painting, ancient metalwork (Scythian and Greek) — precede a long section on the history of the museum and on its events..... More
Russkii khudozhestvenny chugun iz kollektsii Tat'iany Udras (Russian art iron for the collection of Tatyana Udras)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2011. Sewn cl. This catalogue of the State Historical Museum publishes works of cast iron — candle sticks, vases, furniture, sculpture. Many are based on models and designs of earlier periods, such as medieval sytlizations, but were cast in the early twentieth century, when there..... 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)
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
Samovary XVIII– XX vekov v sobranii istoricheskogo muzeiia (Samovars of the 18th to the 20th c. in the collection of the Historical Museum); XVIII-XX
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2020. Sewn cl. This is the first scholarly catalogue of the State Historical Museum's extensive collection of one distinctly Russian form of metalwork — the samovar. Beyond the immediate subject the catalogue's significance lies in its close connection with estate life-style of the Russian gentry..... More
Kul’tura staroverov Vyga (Culture of the Old-Believers of Vyg)
1994. Sewn pb. This catalogue of works from private collections and five museums displays the rich culture of the Old Believers who fled to northwest Russia after the seventeenth-century schism. They illuminated manuscripts in their own scriptoria which became prized for characteristic lettering and graceful ornaments; they painted icons of..... More
Russkii pravoslavnyi krest v sobranii Rossiiskoi etnograficheskogo muzeia (Russian Orthodox Crosses in the Collection of the Russian Ethnography Museum)
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskii etnograficheskii muzei, 2007. sewn pb., The authors focus on the art-historical aspects of the cross in Russia, tracing its development from Byzantine forms to distinctive Russian styles, such as four-, six, and eight-sided variants, a generalized almost abstract image of Christ at variance with realistic depiction of..... More
Puteshestvie Ibn Fadlana: volzhskii put' ot Bagdada do Bulgara. Katalog vystavki (Ibn Fadlan's journey: the Volga route from Baghdad to Bulghar. Exhibition catalogue)
Moscow: Hermitage / Fond Mardzhani, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition at the Kazan Kremlin Museum publishes art and artifacts that originate in the areas along 1000-year old trade routes of Eastern Europe, the Near East, and Central Asia. The tools, artifacts, applied and decorative arts are..... More
V kamne i bronze: sbornik statei v chest' Anny Peskovoi / In stone and bronze essays presented in honor of Anna Peskova
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
Kontseshti: kniazheskoe pogrebenie epokhi velikogo pereseleniia narodov / Concesti: a princely grave from the great migration period
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn cl. This Hermitage monograph publishes and describes in detail for the first time the complete finds of a grave mound on the Prut River in modern Romania dating to the fourth century. Researchers infer from inscriptions on the works that they belonged to a leader..... More
Perfection in Details: the Art of Japan in the Meiji Period 1868–1910. Metalwork, vol. 2 / Sovershentsvo v detaliakh: iskusstvo Iaponii epokhi Meidzi 1868–1912. Khudozhestvennyi metal, chastnaia kollektsiia, katalog vystavki, tom 2
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2016. Sewn pb. 199 p., 29 cm, approx. 220 color illus., Rus. or ENGLISH. More
Sovershentsvo v detaliakh: iskusstvo Iaponii epokhi Meidzi 1868–1912. Khudozhestvennyi metall, chastnaia kollektsiia, katalog vystavki, tom 2 / Perfection in Details: the Art of Japan in the Meiji Period 1868–1910. Metalwork, vol. 2
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
Sokrovishcha drevnego Uglicha XV – XX vekov: dekorativno-priklanoe iskusstvo muzeinogo sobraniia [Uglichskogo istoriko-arkhitekturnogo i khudozhestvennogo muzeia] (Treasures of ancient Uglich of the 15th to the 20thcentury: decorative and applied arts from museum collections [of the Uglich Historico-Architectural and Art Museum]);; XV-XX : -
Moscow: Grand kholding / Uglichskii Historiko-arkhitekturnyi i khudozhestvennyi muzei, 2009. Sewn cl. Like most provincial museums Uglich Historical, Architectural, and Art Museum reflects the art of the region where it is located: the provenance of most works shows they come from monasteries, churches, and estates of the nobility in or..... More
Gruzinskaia srednevekovaia torevtika v sobranii Ermitazha: issledovaniia i attributsii / Medieval Georgian Toreutics in the Hermitage Museum Collection
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
Cartier: prodolzhaia istoriiu. Shedevry dekorativno-prikladnogo iskusstva Ermitazha i iuvelirnoe nasledie Doma Cartier (Cartier: passing on heritage and savoir-faire. Masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum and the Cartier Collection), 9785604490921; Cartier : : - Cartier
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2021. Sewn cl. The Hermitage has been collaborating for several years with the jewelry house of Cartier sharing expertise on restoration and preservation of works of jewelry art and more broadly applied arts incorporating rock crystal, metalwork, and gems. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage..... More
Piese de Giuvaiergerie antica: din colectiile Muzeului National de Istorie a Moldovei / Drevnie iuvelirnye izdeliia iz kollektsii Natsional’nogo muzeia istorii Moldovy (Ancient jewelry from the collection of the National Museum of the History of Moldova), 9789975874427
Kishinev: Muzeul National de Istorie a Moldovei, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalogue publishes works found at archeological excavations and through chance on the territory of contemporary Moldava. They were photographed anew for this catalogue and are nicely printed at actual size and in details revealing the intricacy of design, the..... More
Zhizn’ v srednevekovom Khorasane: geniza iz natsional’noi biblioteki Izrailia / Life in Medieval Khorasan: a genizah from the National Library of Israel, 9785935728724
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue publishes texts from a cluster of ancient manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew originally supposed to be from a Jewish family archive and a Muslim administrtive archive. They come from the National Library of Israel, which recently acquired them. To..... More
Kozyr'ki Sankt-Peterburga / Canopies, metal awnings and marquees of St. Petersburg)
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
Sokrovishcha russkogo severa iz sobraniia Kirillo-Belozerskogo muzeia-zapovednik (Treasures of the Russian North from the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersk Museum-Preserve); : - -
? 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..... More
Russkoe olovo XVIII veka: mastera, kleima, slovar’, katalog (Russian 18th-c. Pewter: Craftsmen, Hallmarks, Glossary, Catalogue)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 1995. Sewn pb. This monograph on pewter manufacture and design has information on 125 craftsmen working in Moscow and the provinces, a catalogue of all known hallmarks, and samples of liturgical and domestic pieces from the State Historical Museum. 96 pp., 8 1/2 x 11..... More
Golden Treasure Trove of the Russian Museum / Zolotaia kladovaia Russkogo muzeia
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
Armianskaia kollektsiia Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii religii (Armenian Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religions)
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
Frakiiskoe zoloto iz Bolgarii: ozhivshie legendy (Thracian Gold from Bulgaria: The Legends Become Alive)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM) / Kuchkovo pole, 2013. Sewn cl. Many of these works from the exhibition at the State Historical Museum (Moscow) are seldom seen: masterpieces of metalwork from the National Historical Museum in Sophia, Bulgaria, make up the majority of works, but six regional museums in Bulgaria..... More