Ispanskoe iskusstvo v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ėrmitazha
Subtitle: katalog vystavki
By: [obshchai︠a︡ nauchnai︠a︡ redakt︠s︡ii︠a︡ M.B. Piotrovskiĭ ; avtor kont︠s︡ept︠s︡ii i kurator vystavki, S.K. Savvateev ; avtory stateĭ kataloga E.A. Anisimova, I︠U︡. G. Efimov, L.L. Kaganė]
Contributors: Saratovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ khudozhestvennyĭ muzeĭ imeni A.N. Radishcheva; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Publisher: Slavii︠a︡
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sankt-Peterburg
Language: rus
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9785950101328
Subjects: Spanish Painting; Decorative arts; Painting; Exhibitions; Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Description: This exhibition catalogue publishes a selection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century paintings from the Hermitage, which has the largest collection of Spanish painting outside Spain. Presented in the catalog are 21 canvases from the late sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries, including those by the celebrated Ribalta, Ribera, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Murillo and Cano. Subsequent chapters catalogue other works originating in Spain: arms and armor (daggers, pistols, swords, a rifle from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries), bronzes, carved ivory, ceramics, glass, furniture, and embroidery. The origin of much of the Hermitage{u2019}s collection can be traced to such great nineteenth-century collectors such as A. P. Bazilevskii, who built his collection in the 1880s, and Baron A. L. Shtieglits, who bought works for the Central Institute of Technical Drawing in the 1870s. The Hermitage{u2019}s collection of Spanish applied and decorative art, like the painting collection, is one of the best in world outside Spain and nicely illustrates the distinct style of Spain that unites Islamic and Christian traditions. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Saratovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ khudozhestvennyĭ muzeĭ imeni A.N. Radishcheva, June 29-Nov. 21, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-103).