Art Treasures of Russia
Author | : M. W. Alpatov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Soviet icons, embroidery, jewellery, woodcarvings |
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Author | : M. W. Alpatov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Soviet icons, embroidery, jewellery, woodcarvings |
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Author | : N. I︠U︡ Semenova |
Publisher | : Abbeville Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780789211545 |
Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.
Author | : Anne Odom |
Publisher | : Hillwood Museum & Gardens |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Sixteen scholars from Russia, Vienna, and the United States explore the fate of Russian art collections and libraries following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the institutions and individuals responsible for their sale, and the prominent collectors, libraries, and museums that acquired them. Unlike the widely publicized controversy surrounding Soviet-Nazi war loot and its restitution, the sales of the interwar period are not well known outside a small scholarly community. This volume reveals the extent of the Soviet government's voluntary ?realization? of Russia's cultural patrimony between 1918 and 1938 and its consequences for both the international art market and the perception of Russian art. The imperial Easter eggs by Fabergé and Old-Master paintings purchased by Andrew Mellon from the State Hermitage and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are the most celebrated works that changed hands. Equally significant are the bibliographic rarities from imperial libraries, icons and liturgical art from churches and monasteries, and antiques, furnishings and fine art from estates, palaces, and private homes. See the review in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/ggantiques/list.html
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Release | : 2018-11-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781732584006 |
Klim Rogov is a foreign journalist, and when Russia has a Bolshevik coup in 1917, he has a chance to leave the country and escape the violence of the civil war. He tries to take Nina, his fiancée, with him, but precious time is lost. Klim decides to stay with her and protect her while he still can.
Author | : Tessa Murdoch |
Publisher | : Victoria & Albert Museum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9781851777310 |
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Author | : Christina Burrus |
Publisher | : I. B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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With the collaboration of Agnes Carbonell; photography by Leonid Ogarev; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz and Sue Rose. Translation of: Collectionneurs russes. Includes index.
Author | : Scott M. Kenworthy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199736138 |
Studies in particular monastic revivals in the 19th and 20th centuries, as epitomized by Trinity-Sergius.
Author | : Janet Martin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2004-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521548113 |
Traces the medieval fur trade which stretched from western Europe to China.
Author | : William Malpas Clarke |
Publisher | : National Museums of Scotland |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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The story of the Romanov jewels and of Englishman Albert Stopford who risked his life to smuggle millions of pounds worth of of the precious gems from Russia to London in 1917.
Author | : Joan Aruz |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art, Scythian |
ISBN | : 1588392058 |