| Description |
256 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 255) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"This book represents a reconstruction of what a tour of the great Russian collections would have been just prior to the fall of the Romanovs. They are brought back to life by the works of art themselves, (now scattered around the world in Russia and Washington, D.C., Paris, London, Lisbon, or Amsterdam), by family portraits, period watercolors of the collectors' palaces, as well as later photographs of their interiors"--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Art -- Private collections -- Russia.
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Collectors and collecting -- Russia -- History.
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| Added Author |
Ducamp, Emmanuel.
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| ISBN |
0865652252 alkaline paper |
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