The art and architecture of Russia / George Heard Hamilton
1954. Baltimore : Penguin Books. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. With a cardboard slip-case. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #439447
Physical description: xxi, 320 pages, 180 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 27 cm. Series: Pelican history of art ; Z6. Contents: Kievan Russia ; The past of Kiev ; The architecture of Kiev : 990-1240 ; The architecture of Novgorod and Pskov : 990-1500 ; Mosaics and frescoes in Kiev ; The first Russian sculpture ; Frescoes in Vladimir and Novgorod -- Icon-painting ; Icon-painting : criticism, iconography, and technique ; The earliest icons : 990-1250 ; Provincial schools of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; Fifteenth-century painting : Moscow ; Fifteenth-century painting : Novgorod ; Painting in Moscow in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries-- The art of Muscovy ; Wooden church architecture ; Architecture in Moscow : 1400-1600 ; Seventeenth-century religious architecture : the 'Moscow Baroque' ; Secular architecture ; The beginning of modern painting : Moscow, 1550-1700 -- St. Petersburg ; Peter's Baroque : 1703-41 ; Elizabeth's Rococo : 1741-62 ; The classicism of Catherine II : 1762-96 ; The Alexandrian empire : 1796-1850 ; The medieval revival : eighteenth-century romantic architecture -- Modern Russian art ; Eighteenth-century painting and sculpture ; Romanticism ; Ideological realism ; The Slavic revival and Mir Iskusstva. Subjects: Art, Russian. Architecture Russia History. Architecture Soviet Union History.
Price: €35.00