Great private collections of Imperial Russia / Mikhail Piotrovsky and Oleg Neverov
2004, First Edition. London : Thames & Hudson. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #362430
ISBN: 0500511829
Physical description; 320 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Audience; specialized. Contents; Private collections : the origin of museums / by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky -- Family collecting / by Nicholas Romanov -- Private galleries as a public service / by Emmanuel Ducamp -- The emergence of private collections in Russia : Peter the Great and his inner circle -- Collectors from the aristocracy, old and new -- Servants of the State and Russian collectors abroad -- Merchant princes of the Moscow renaissance. Subjects; Art Private collections Russia (Federation). Art Private collections. Art, Modern Russia 18th century. Art, Modern Russia 19th century. Modernism (Art) Russia 18th century. Modernism (Art) Russia 19th century. Collectors and collecting Russia History. Art Private collections Russia (Federation). Art Collectors and collecting Russia (Federation). Collectors and Collecting - Russia. Art Private collections Russia. Art Private collections Russia (Federation) History. Art Collectors and collecting Russia (Federation) History. Art, Russian. Russia Antiquities. Russia (Federation). Russia Arts History. Russia Cultural history. Russia. Collectors and collecting - Russia. Art - Russia - 18th/19th/20th centuries - (1700-1914). Genres; Illustrated.
Price: €35.00