Muzeĭ mystet︠s︡tv imeni Bohdana ta Varvary Khanenkiv
Subtitle: The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts
By: [upori︠a︡dkuvanni︠a︡ Halyna Bilenko and others]
Series: Derz︠h︡avni zibranni︠a︡ Ukraïny = State collections of Ukraine; Derz︠h︡avni zibranni︠a︡ Ukraïny
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kyïv
Language: ukr
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9789662085006
Subjects: Catalogs; Art; Muzeĭ mystet︠s︡tv imeni Bohdana ta Varvary Khanenkiv; Muzeǐ mystet︠s︡tv imeni Bohdana ta Varvary Khanenkiv
Other titles: Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts
Description: This is the first publication on such a scale of the collection of world art built by a private collector in Kyiv in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Khanenko housed his collection in a stately building and intended to bequeath it to the state, but the 1917 revolution forestalled him. The Soviet policy of forming a state museum fund of nationalized works and dispersing them to various museums and sometimes selling them spoiled its integrity, but as this catalogue shows it is still an extraordinary collection. Chapters cover many regions and periods of world art: ancient and medieval art, including extremely rare works of icon-painting of the sixth and seventh centuries; Dutch, Italian, and French painting; sculpture, majolica, faience, and porcelain; Islamic art, including Persian bronzes, and Asian art from Tibet, China, and Japan, the last especially noteworthy for fine examples of tsubas. -- Summary by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.
Notes: "Dukhovna spadshchyna Ukraïny."

In Ukrainian and English.