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
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
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
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
Khudozhestvennoe nasledie staroverov pomor'ia v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. K 330-lletiiu osnovaniia Vygovskoi pomorskoi pustyni. Katalog vystavki / The Artistic Legacy of the Pomorian Old Believers at the State Hermitage Collection. For the 330th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Vygovsky Pomorian Pustyn. Exhibition Catalogue, 9785907653313
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2023. Sewn cl. Originating in the late seventeenth century, the Old believer community of Vyg in the far north (now Karelia) rejected the reforms of the Moscow Patriarch Nikon and adhered to archaic forms of church art and at the same time evolving a style of their..... 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
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
Zakat dinastii Poslednie Riurikovichi, Lzhedimitrii (Decline of the Dynast: The Last Rurikids and the False Dmitrii 9785886783735
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2021. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin publishes icons, ecclesiastical and secular metalwork, costume, embroidery, and written documents from collections in Russia and Poland relating to the turbulent sixteenth century when a tsar of doubtful mental balance led..... 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
Sagan uri Z uderidan (Sak art velo) : elitaruli samarxebi Kavkasiis Iberiidan romaul xanaši (ax.c. 200-250) / The Treasures of Zghuderi: Elite Burials of Caucasian Iberia in the Roman Period c. A.D. 200–250
Tbilisi: Sak art velos erovnuli muzeumi / Georgian National Museum, 2009. This catalogue of the Georgian National Museums publishes finds discovered when three tombs were excavated in Zghuderi located in an area once known as Caucasian Iberia and flourishing thanks to relations with the Romans during the first two 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
Karl Faberzhe i epokha russkogo renessansa (Carl Fabergé and the Russian Renaissance)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2019. Sewn cl. The first section concentrates on the elevation of every day objects — a cigar case, an envelope opener, a clock, a picture frame, a small box, a cigarette holder, a vase, a pitcher, an ash tray, a paper weight, a shot glass..... More
Zoloto i serebro kazanskikh tatar: iz sobranii Natsional'nogo muzeia Respubliki Tatarstan / Kazan tatarlarynyng altyn ham komeshe: Tatarstan Respublikasy Milli muzee jyelmalarynnan / Gold and silver of the Tatars : from the collection of National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
Kazan: Zaman, 2002. Sewn cl. Ornamenting dress with gold and especially silver has for centuries been central to the aesthetics of the Islamic population of Kazan, the Tatars. Metalwork was used for jewelry and ornaments sewn into clothing, which had both a decorative and a talismanic purpose. The text combines..... More
Serebrianye oklady Evangelii iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii (Silver Bible Covers from the Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii / Aktsioner i K, 2014 (1st ed. 2005). Sewn cl. Framed in silver and adorned with inlaid enamel paintings, gems and gilding, these icon frames from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century are both representative examples of church art and specimens of fine..... More
"Serebriannaia kladovaia" Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii religii / The Silver Treasure of the State Museum of the History of Religion
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2014. Sewn pb. Icon lamps, crosses, bible covers, censers, chalices, and especially icon frames, most dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth century display the many ways in which commissions for the church and private shrines fostered fine metalwork. The author attributes the works to..... More
Russian Silver of the 16th – Early 20th Centuries / Russkoe serebro XVI – nachala XX veka
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2004. Sewn cl. Presented are the most noteworthy examples of silverwork from Russia’s leading museums, including the Hermitage, the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin, the State History Museum, and the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Folk Arts. Many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masterpieces, formerly owned by Russian princes..... More
Russkoe serebro XVI – nachala XX veka / Russian Silver of the 16th – Early 20th Centuries /
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2004. Sewn cl. Presented are the most noteworthy examples of silverwork from Russia’s leading museums, including the Hermitage, the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin, the State History Museum, and the All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Folk Arts. Many sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masterpieces, formerly owned by Russian princes..... More