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Exhibition Review
Peter the Great: Collector, Scholar, Artist. Moscow Kremlin Museums
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 248-250
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Kocialkowska, Kamila (Kocialkowska, Kamila)
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Peter the Great: Collector, Scholar, Artist Moscow Kremlin Museums 29th November 2019–8th March | :
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20. Compass, by Peter the Great. 1709. Ivory, brass, paper, iron, glass, ink, paints, diameter 13.5 cm. (Dresden Armoury, Dresden State Arts Collection; exh. Moscow Kremlin Museums).
Non-western art unattributed:
22. Tracery belt plate with dragons. Siberia, 2nd–1st centuries BC. Gold cornelian, glass, black stone, casting, inlay, 9 by 15.1 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; exh. Moscow Kremlin Museums).
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21. Ceremonial mace. Turkey, second half of the 17th century. Silver, copper, jade, turquoise, wood, forging, chasing, gilding, incrustation, length 73 cm. (Moscow Kremlin Museums).
Article
Vasily Kandinsky and the Formal method
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1016-1023
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Author:
Bowlt, John E. (Bowlt, John E.)
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1. Elementary life of the primary colour and its dependence on the simplest locale, by Vasily Kandinsky. Illustration to the lecture ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ delivered by Nikolai Kul’bin on Kandinsky’s behalf at the All-Russian Congress of Artists, St Petersburg, 29th and 31st December 1911. Published in Russian in I. Repin et al.: Trudy Vserossiiskogo s’ezda khudozhnikov (Transactions of the All-Russian Congress of artists), Petrograd 1914, I, pp.76–77.
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2. Improvisation 10, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1910. Canvas, 120 by 140 cm. (Fondation Beyeler, Basel; photograph courtesy Peter Schibli).
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3. Tsikl lektsii (Cycle of lectures), by Nikolay Punin. Petrograd 1920. Cover designed by Kazimir Malevich. (Photograph courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York).
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5. Black lines, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1913. 129.4 by 131.1 cm. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Painting with the red spot, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1914. Canvas, 130 by 130 cm. (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Members of RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences) in the building of Svomas (Free State Art Studios), Moscow, June 1921. From left to right: Robert Fal’k, Evsei Shor, Nikolai Uspensky, Vasily Kandinsky, Evgenii Pavlov and Aleksandr Shenshin. Reproduced in C. Derouet and J. Boissel, eds.: exh. cat. Œuvres de Vassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou) 1984, p.156.
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The ‘Martinoff Drawings’: a quest for Russian art at the South Kensington Museum
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1006-1015
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Hardiman, Louise (Hardiman, Louise)
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1. Copy of decoration in a sixteenth-century manuscript of the Gospels in the Patriarchal Library, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 39.3 by 26.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no.M.10.b: 8881).
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10. Detail of The mitre of the Patriarch Job (1586–1605) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 30.5 by 21.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8854).
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11. Detail of Two pairs of eyeglasses, and cases for same, of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 35.5 by 25.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8858).
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12. A saccos (dalmatic) of the Metropolitan Dionysy, made by order of Tsar Ivan Vasilievich (1530–1584) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, 16th century (second half), by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 38 by 26.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8873).
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2. Detail of Church of the Holy Trinity, Ostankino, near Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.9 by 24.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8845).
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4. Detail of The Panagia of the Patriarch Job (1586–1605) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 25.4 by 36.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8842).
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5. Detail of A halo from the image of the Virgin in the sacristy of the Convent of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, Staraya Russa, Novgorod, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 35.5 by 28.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum; London; no.M.10.a: 8861).
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6. Detail of The Pastoral Staff of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658), in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 28.5 by 35.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8855).
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7. A censer at the Convent of the Blessed Virgin, Serpukhov, Province of Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 37 by 28.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no.M.10.a: 8849).
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8. Detail of The klobouk (headdress of the Greek friars), of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658), in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 33 by 22.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8853).
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9. A sash of the Patriarchs, in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.8 by 22.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8877).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Reliquary or triple cross, after a seventeenth-century original at the Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow, at the time of reproduction. c.1881. Electrotype, 32.4 by 16.5 by 3.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
Russia, Rome and the tricky business of disaster painting
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 996-1005
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Blakesley, Rosalind P. (Blakesley, Rosalind P.)
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1. Last day of Pompeii, by Karl Bryullov. 1830–33. Canvas, 456.5 by 651 cm. (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg).
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10. Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan. 16th November 1581, by Ilya Repin. 1885. Canvas, 199.5 by 254 cm. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
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2. Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, by John Martin. 1822. Canvas, 161.6 by 253 cm. (Tate, London).
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3. Earthquake in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, by Petr Basin. 1830. Canvas, 84 by 99 cm. (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg).
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4. Sketch for ‘Genseric’s invasion of Rome’, by Karl Bryullov. 1835–36. Canvas, 88 by 117.9 cm. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
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5. Siege of Pskov by King Stefan Batory of Poland in 1581, by Karl Bryullov. 1839–43. Canvas, 482 by 675 cm. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
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6. Death of Camilla, sister of Horatius, by Fedor Bruni. 1824. Canvas, 350 by 526.5 cm. (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg).
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7. The brazen serpent, by Fedor Bruni. 1834–41. Canvas, 565 by 852 cm. (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg).
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8. Sketch for ‘St Eustace Placidus in the Colosseum’, by Aleksei Markov. 1836–42. Canvas, 98 by 136.5 cm. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
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9. Morning of the execution of the Streltsy, by Vasily Surikov. 1881. Canvas, 218 by 375 cm. (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Book Review
Museo Statale Ermitage. La scultura italiana dal XVII al XVIII secolo: Da Bernini a Canova. Catalogo della Collezione. Edited by Sergej Androsov
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1076-1077
Book Review
Alexei Jawlensky. Edited by Vivian Endicott Barnett
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 434-435
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Blood, Anne (Blood, Anne)
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6. Meditation: My spirit will live on, by Alexei Jawlensky. 1935. Oil on cardboard, 20 by 15 cm. (Museum Wiesbaden; © 2016 Artists Rights Society, New York).
Book Review
Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art. By Nancy Perloff & Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War. By Erika Wolf & Communist Posters. Edited by Mary Ginsberg
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 260-261
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Collier, Marie (Collier, Marie)
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Book Review
Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890. By Molly Brunson
03/2018 | 1380 | 160
Pages: 258-259
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Mardilovich, Galina (Mardilovich, Galina)
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4. The Zaporozhian cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish sultan, by Ilya Repin. 1880–91. Canvas, 203 by 358 cm. (State Russian Museum, St Petersburg).
Publication Received
Usages et utopias. L’exposition dans l’avant-garde russe prérévolutionnaire (1900–1916). By Elitza Dulguerova.
07/2016 | 1360 | 158
Pages: 569-569
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Lodder, Christina (Lodder, Christina; L., C.; Lodder, Christina A.)
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Exhibition Review
Julia Margaret Cameron
02/2016 | 1355 | 158
Pages: 141-142
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Ford, Colin (Ford, Colin)
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70. Henry Cole, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1868 (Royal Society of Arts, London; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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71. Whisper of the muse, by Julia Margaret Cameron. April 1865 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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72. Julia Jackson, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1867 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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