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By Cynthia Hyla Whittaker

ISBN-10: 9004183434

ISBN-13: 9789004183438

The Romantic look for a countrywide earlier used to be a ecu preoccupation within the first 1/2 the 19th century. In Russia, this strategy resulted in the formation of the Russian sort that has to at the present time so captivated the world's mind's eye. whereas the manifestations of this type are simply recognizable in glowing gilt, brilliant colours, onion domes, peasant dress, and tsarist regalia, not often somebody has discovered the pioneering and defining function that Fedor Solntsev (1801-1892) performed within the improvement of a Russian nationwide aesthetic. This ebook rescues Solntsev from obscurity and celebrates his significant contributions to the humanities, archaeology, structure, ethnography, icon portray, recovery paintings, and Russian nationalist ideology in addition to position his paintings in a normal ecu context. participants contain: Marc Raeff, Wendy Salmond, Richard Wortman, Anne Odom, Irina Bogatskaia, Marina Evtushenko, Olenka Pevny, Irina Reyfman, Nathaniel Knight, Lauren M. O'Connell, and J. Robert Wright.

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On Olenin’s role in Vorob’ev’s assignment as a spy in these areas, and the detailed instructions he gave him, see Stuart, Olenin, 105–106. Also see: P. N. Petrov, “M. N. Vorob’ev i ego shkola,” Vestnik iziashchnykh iskusstv 6 (1888), 297–303; and E. A. Borisova, Russkaia arkhitektura vtoroi poloviny XIX vek (Moscow, 1979), 95. 5 E. I. Kirichenko, Russkii stil’ (Moscow, 1997), 92; Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Führer zu seinen Bauten 1 (Munich, 2006), 120–21; V. I. Piliavskii, Stasov-arkhitektor (Leningrad, 1963), 209–210; Elena Simanovskaia, Russkii aktsent garnizonnogo goroda (Potsdam, 2005), 44–47.

Four essays demonstrate Solntsev’s enormous achievements in specific areas of art. Anne Odom focuses on the revolution he launched in design, introducing “a new, distinctively Russian, vocabulary of ornament” that had an impact in every area of the decorative arts. She demonstrates that the Russian style appeared just at the moment when world fairs became popular showcases for national art and thus insured exposure worldwide. Irina Bogatskaia details the work done on historic preservation during the first quarter of the nineteenth century and Solntsev’s monumental role in publicizing, preserving, and restoring the antiquities and buildings of the Kremlin.

His ability to fashion fragments of that culture—medieval manuscript illuminations, Tatar helmets, onion domes—into a new visual language makes him an enormously important figure in the history of Russian art. One 14 The New York Public Library purchased Odezhdy Russkago gosudarstva, a portfolio of 324 watercolors, in 1934, and it remains one of the library’s treasures. ” 16 Chaadaev’s “Philosophical Letter” was published in the journal Teleskop, as reprinted in M. O. Gerzhenzon, ed. Sochineniia i pis’ma P.

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