Among the most important private art collections ever created were those of Imperial Russia. Catherine the Great, guided by Voltaire, amassed treasures on a Herculean scale, laying the basis for what is today the Russian State Hermitage. Favorite courtiers built palaces of unprecedented magnificence in St. Petersburg and Moscow for their vast collections of paintings, antiquities, and decorative arts. In a lively and anecdotal text, Oleg Neverov reassembles these now-legendary private collections, which, after the 1917 ...
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Among the most important private art collections ever created were those of Imperial Russia. Catherine the Great, guided by Voltaire, amassed treasures on a Herculean scale, laying the basis for what is today the Russian State Hermitage. Favorite courtiers built palaces of unprecedented magnificence in St. Petersburg and Moscow for their vast collections of paintings, antiquities, and decorative arts. In a lively and anecdotal text, Oleg Neverov reassembles these now-legendary private collections, which, after the 1917 Revolution, were dispersed among the Hermitage, Pushkin, and Tretiakov museums, sold to foreign museums, or spirited abroad. Represented here are works that once belonged to such famed aristocratic families as the Stroganovs and Yussupovs; to the merchant princes Mamontov and Tenischeva; and to the legendary Morozov and Schukin families, the largest purchasers of the early works of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque. Here, portraits of the collectors, period photography, and architectural drawings and watercolors, along with beautiful reproductions of the artworks and texts drawn from the latest research in Russian archives, bring this long-gone era and its treasures back to life.
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Good Condition. A few light external scuffs and nicks. All pages unmarked and uncreased. All in all, sound and serviceable. Publisher's note: Minor shelf-wear only, otherwise in very good used condition. | Dust jacket is fully intact. Internally clean and fresh. Otherwise, a good used copy. | G Size: 32.1 x 25.4 x 3.2 cm. 256 pp. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0865652252. ISBN/EAN: 9780865652255. Add. Inventory No: 240630JFY007035.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 256 pages 344 illustrations 257 in color. Introductions by Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky and H.H. Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Emmanuel Duchamp, General Editor.