Fine arts
Several art styles appeared during the 19 century – classicism, neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism. Although we distinguish them, they don’t have clear borders…
| 21.07.2006 | Painting frames in Russia
There is a direct connection between a painting and its frame. A well-selected frame underscores the merits of a painting, makes it complete, and distinguishes it in the surrounding space |
| 19.07.2006 | Paris and New-York of Sergey Sudejkin
St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tbilisi, Paris, New-York and Chicago journalists wrote about him. In the East and West he was called the most typical Russian artist. Western masters imitated his pastorals, ma... |
| 19.07.2006 | Flying Sheets of Glory
Caricature wars that became one of the most vitally discussed themes of the last months, were also held in the past. |
| 19.07.2006 | Russian Military Portrait
A long line of elegant portraits of beautiful women, Emperors, public figures and poets, often shades images of Russian military officers. |
| 18.07.2006 | Misadventures of the gent altar
Among the world famous art works that have attracted both admirers of the beautiful and adventurers, one can certainly mention the «Gent Altar» — the most famous work by Van Eyck brothers |
| 18.07.2006 | The “Paris Robbery” Case
Today, centuries after its creation, the image of Mona Lisa can be found everywhere including our household things. |
| 18.07.2006 | Frames… and their portraits
The creation of portrait frames is a separate area in the design of picture frames. A portrait painter depicts the typical features of a certain person. |
| 16.09.2005 | Socialist realism
Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. |
| 04.08.2005 | A painting by Johann Eleazar Schenau
Johann Eleazar Schenau is one of the most outstanding German artists of the XVIIIth century who did not only determine the style of painting in the second half of the same century but also influenced ... |
| 02.08.2005 | Western painting on the Russian market
While all western professional Mass Media are talking unanimously about the «Russian boom», permanently raising auction sales and the relentless demand for Russian painting... |
| 19.07.2005 | Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. |
| 07.06.2005 | Enamel collection of A.V. Zvenigorodsky
In this article, the author continues a theme which was initiated at «Of the History of the Partition Enamel of M.P. Botkin’s Collection in the State Museum of Arts, Georgia» by ... |
| 01.06.2005 | Gallery Selling the Soviet Art
The Soviet art has firmly occupied its niche on the antiques market. For 15 years, this section of art has been an object of close attention of the Moscow galleries.
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| 16.05.2005 | Experience of Russian private collecting
Tretyakov, Ryabushinskiy, Morozov… Everybody knows their names. Their involvement into culture is immense, their examples are models, their authorities are irreproachable. There ... |
| 16.05.2005 | The engraving by Cornelis Cort.
A private collection (St. Petersburg) possesses a wonderful print «The Saint Family with Saint Anna and a child Joann the Baptist», the second state, with Antonio Lafrery’s addre... |
| 14.05.2005 | An unknown portrait of count Stroganov
Last year, on December 11–12, a «Bukovskis» antique auction was held in Helsinki. It gathered an impressive collection of Russian art — 144 lots. This auction presented a lot ¹ 7... |
| 14.05.2005 | Images at the paintings – pages of chronicle
Portraits of talented masters may be equated with the pages of a revived chronicle. The faces of the portrayed can tell much to an attentive viewer. K. Somov,
V. Shuhaev, Z. S... |
| 14.05.2005 | A bather or a nymph? Fon Neff’s painting
A picturesque painting by Timophey Andreevich fon Neff (1805–1876), which is located in one of private St. Petersburg collections is a version of the famous composition of this a... |
| 08.11.2001 | Unesco red tape blocks Kabul museum salvage
Swiss museum in exile waited in vain for items the Taliban had agreed to let out
LONDON. As Kabul is bombed, further fears are raised over the little that may remain of Afghanistan’s cultural heritag... |
| 04.11.2001 | Afghan Art Dispersed by the Winds of War
The smuggling of Afghan antiquities involves virtually all sides in Afghanistan's complicated and shifting civil wars. On a recent visit to a London antique dealer, David Kamansky, director of th... |
