Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia - Hardcover
Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: October 2004 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! This volume recreates the collections of pre-Revolution Russia. describes how they were made and by whom. and offers not only photographs of the great treasures themselves. but portraits of the owners. illustrations of the exteriors and interiors of their palaces as they were in the past. Contents: Private collections: the origin of museumsp. 7Family collectingp. 9Private galleries as a public servicep. 10The emergence of private collections in Russia: Peter the Great and his inner circle: the early 18th centuryp. 13Collectors from the aristocracy. old and new: the second half of the 18th centuryp. 21Servants of the state and Russian collectors aoad: the 19th centuryp. 105Merchant princes of the Moscow renaissance: 1850-19...
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Mikhail Piotrovsky is the Director of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg. Oleg Neverov is widely published art historian. His book The Hermitage: Essays on the History of the Collection has been a bestseller in several languages.
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Families like the Stroganovs or Tretyakovs may be vaguely familiar to U.S. readers, but most of the 30 clans and individuals that did the bulk of Russia's collecting over three centuries will not—making this book all the more valuable. Matching masterworks with the rich travelers to Europe (where most pieces originated) who recognized them and brought them back, most often, to Petersburg, Neverov, a curator at Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum, shows how that institution, along with the Pushkin in Moscow and various others, came to hold so much great art. Jacques-Louis David, Greuze, Gainsborough, van Eyck, Memling, Matisse (Dance), Tiepolo, Cezanne, Picasso (the lovely Young Girl on a Ball) and Bonnard are all here, though works by the likes of da Vinci and Titian that travelers to Russia may have seen and loved are not. The indifferent layout and font choices don't detract too much from the more than 350 full-color reproductions, which are clear if not ravishing. Neverov exhaustively relates the families he discusses to their home cities and those cities to their larger histories; as a reckoning of provenance, the book fully satisfies.
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- PublisherThames & Hudson
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0500511829
- ISBN 13 9780500511824
- BindingHardcover
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