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Item Number: 134399
Title: The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age : The Collection of Pyotr Semenov and the Art-Market in St Petersburg 1860-1910
Author: Sokolova, Irina
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789004292413
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 444pp., 323 illus., most in color. Summary: In The Russian Passion for Dutch Painting of the Golden Age Irina Sokolova presents the collection of paintings created by Pyotr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky (1827–1914), an outstanding scholar and Russian statesman during the era of liberal reforms in Russia. Not only did this man of great erudition assemble a unique body of more than 700 works by Dutch and Flemish masters, but he pushed hard to ensure that it entered the Imperial Hermitage in 1914. His activities as a collector have until recently remained largely unknown. For the first time in English, this book unfolds the history of Semenov’s gallery against the background of cultural and artistic life in St Petersburg and the close ties between Russian and European connoisseurs of his time
Contents: 1 Pyotr Semenov and His Age. 2 Aspects of Artistic Life in St Petersburg during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Private Collections Open to the Public, Exhibitions and Auctions. 3 St Petersburg's Collectors and Antiquarians 1860-90. 4 The Nineteenth Century. A New View of Dutch Painting and its Impact on Russia. 5 Pyotr Semenov and Western Experts: Wilhelm Bode, Abraham Bredius and Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. 6 The Semenov Gallery on Vasilyevsky Island: Its Composition and Character. 7 The Sale of the Collection to the Imperial Hermitage. 8 The Semenov Collection in the Hermitage: Fate Scatters the Paintings. Appendix 1 Paintings from the Collection of Pyotr Semenov still in the Hermitage. Appendix 2 Paintings from the Collection of Pyotr Semenov no longer in the Hermitage.
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