Metalwork
Ex thesauris: 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
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
Sokhranennye sviatyni Moskvy ushedshei (Works of church art preserved from bygone Moscow)
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of a Tretyakov gallery exhibition studies works — primarily ecclesiastical metalwork — salvaged from churches and monasteries no longer extant. 86 p., 30 cm, approx. 50 color and b/w illus., Rus. 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
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: Herm, 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 now..... 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 in the region dating to the fourth century. Researchers infer from inscriptions on the works facts that they..... More
Sovershentsvo v detaliakh: iskusstvo Iaponii epokhi Meidzi 1868–1912. Khudozhestvennyi metal, 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
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
Skevrskii relikvarii / The Skevra Reliquary
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
Mir liturgii. Katalog vystavki (The liturgical world. Exhibition catalogue)
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
Zhizn’ v srednevekovom Khorasane: geniza iz natsional’noi biblioteki Izrailia / Life in Medieval Khorasan: a genizah from the National Library of Israel
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 Israe, 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 and..... More
Sviataia Rus' / Holy Russia
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
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
Zoloto i serebro kazanskikh tatar : iz sobranii Natsional'nogo muzeia Respubliki Tatarstan = Kazan tatarlarynyn g altyn m k meshe : 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. Works of jewelry in which Tatar gold and silversmiths have long specialized together with plate and bowls show a style of metalwork at once ornate and spare. Vignettes on principal jewelers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries make the book both a catalogue and..... More
Zoloto i serebro kazanskikh tatar iz sobranii Natsional'nogo muzeia respubiki Tatarstan / Gold and Silver of the Kazan Tatars from the Collections of the 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, 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
"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, 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 fostered fine metalwork. The author attributes the works to artists..... More