Mint l'Art Russe With SLeeve French Version 1991

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Ten centuries of Russian art! This volume invites you to this fabulous journey through time and space. Over the six … Read more Ten centuries of Russian art! This volume invites you to this fabulous journey through time and space. Over the six hundred pages, the authors tell the upheavals of a story which, from Kiev to Moscow, via Vladimir, Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, never leaves the reader in peace.

While the political unity of a young state asserted itself, the baptism of Russia, proclaimed by Vladimir I in 988, gave birth to an exceptional art which, while detaching itself from the model of Byzantium, remained in close symbiosis with the 'Orthodox Church ; icon art and architecture did not stop evolving over the ages, punctuated by big names like Théophane-le-Grec and the prodigious Andrei Roublev. In 1682, the advent of Pierre-le-Grand turned this art of gold and incense upside down: throughout the 18th century, opening to the West served the splendors of a world that expressed, against all odds,his own genius. With the 19th century, Russia entered the concert of the great nations:

Thanks to exclusive reports, the iconography brings the reader into the churches, palaces and museums of all of Russia, as we rediscover it today. See less