British Art Treasures from Russian Imperial Collections in the Hermitage
This sumptuously illustrated book coincides with the bicentenary of the death of the Empress Catherine the Great. It examines the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Britain and Russia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The distinguished art critic John Russell provides an introduction for this book, and eminent British and Russian scholars offer chapters on such topics as British gardeners and the vogue of the English Garden, the sale of Sir Robert Walpole's remarkable collection of Old Master paintings from Houghton Hall to Catherine the Great, British architects at the Imperial c…
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Weitere Autoren: Dukelskaya, Larissa (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-300-06946-4
- EAN: 9780300069464
- Produktnummer: 1639044
- Verlag: Yale University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H30.3 cm x B25.4 cm x D3.5 cm 2'088 g
- Gewicht: 2088
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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