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Nostalgia for the Roots. Dashi Namdakov’s
Universe of the Nomads. Exhibition Catalogue.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: Chisty
List, 2010. – 216 pp., ills.
The catalogue of Dashi Namdakov’s exhibition
in the State Hermitage Museum is part
of a larger exhibition project, in which works
by modern Russian artists reside by and communicate
with ancient objects, making nostalgia
a continuation of traditions. In Namdakov’s
compositions mythological imagery
and historical reality combine, bringing to the
surface deeper associations of the two with the
militant and austere world of nomads, which,
at the same time, are wonderfully harmonious.
His art brings to us the echoes of the past,
in a new form and from an unexpected point
of view.
From Gothic to Mannerism. Early Netherlandish
Drawing in the State Hermitage Museum.
Exhibition Catalogue. By Alexei Larionov.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 364 pp., ills.
The catalogue of the temporary exhibition of
early Netherlandish drawings includes some
of the works from a richest Hermitage collection,
some of which had never been exhibited
before. A considerable number of drawings
have been re-attributed, some of these having
acquired an attribution (to an author
or school) for the first time. Each of the drawings
published is accompanied by an extensive
author’s comments.
The Sails of Hellas. Seafaring in the Ancient
World. Exhibition Catalogue. The State
Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage
Publishers, 2010. – 304 pp., ills.
The volume includes objects of applied and
visual arts, as well as weapons and coins of ancient
Greece and Rome. The catalogue, showing
a pantheon of sea gods, allows one to trace
the history of navigation and shipbuilding in
Classical Antiquity. The catalogue contains
over 200 works of art and objects of material
culture.
Picasso. From the Collection of the Picasso
Museum – Paris. Exhibition Catalogue.
The State Hermitage. Paris: Skira Flammarion –
St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers,
2010. – 320 pp., ills.
The catalogue of the exhibition from the Picasso
Museum in Paris demonstrates the evolution
of Picasso’s technique, from the earliest
works to the mature period.
A Glass Fantasy. Ancient Glass from
the Hermitage Collection. Exhibition Catalogue.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 296 pp., ills.
The Hermitage collection is one of the richest
in the world, in terms of the number and
variety of glasswares created in the Eastern
Mediterranean and Europe in Classical Antiquity.
The decorations and everyday-life objects
in different techniques, covering a period
of almost a thousand years (from the late
5th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D.),
were acquired at different times from various
collections and from the Greek colonies in the
Northern Black Sea Area. Both the catalogue
and the exhibition are dedicated to the memory
of the Hermitage curator and archaeologist
Nina Kunina (1929–2007), an outstanding
expert in Classical Antiquity glassmaking,
who had put forward the idea of the present
exhibition.
Titian. Madonna and Child with St. Catherine
(Madonna with a Rabbit). From the Collection
of the Louvre. By Irina Artemyeva. The State
Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage
Publishers, 2010. – 16 pp. (“Masterpieces
from the World’s Museums in the Hermitage”
series).
The masterpiece by Titian was brought to the
Hermitage from the Louvre. In a captivating
form, the book tells about the history of the
painting and the School of Venice, to which
the great master belonged.
Swiss Stained Glass from the 16th to
18th Centuries in the Hermitage Collection.
Exhibition Catalogue. By Yelena Shlikevich.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 184 pp., ills.
Swiss stained glass from the 16th to 18th centuries
is a truly unique phenomenon in the
art of the small country located in the very
centre of Europe. Even the contemporaries
found the so-called “cabinet stained glasses”
mass-produced during the period in question
truly surprising from the point of view of both
the style and scale of production. In addition
to Biblical subjects, the stained glasses reflect
various aspects of the life of the country at different
periods, which makes them a valuable
historical source. The catalogue shows the history
of the Hermitage collection and the principal
characteristics and subject diversity of the
compositions.
Porcelain and Roses. Exhibition Catalogue.
The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg. The State
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 160 pp., ills.
(“Christmas Gift” series)
The catalogue contains productions of the Imperial
Porcelain Factory, created from the mid-
18th century to the present time. The works
represented show one of the most important
elements of the flower motif, the decorated or
moulded rose, in all of its diversity, used in porcelain.
The catalogue contains new information
about the artists of the Porcelain Factory
at the Imperial period. It includes works from
the collection of the State Hermitage, as well
as those by today’s artists of the Imperial Porcelain
Factory, Ltd.
Flemings through the Eyes of David Teniers
the Younger (1610–1690). Exhibition
Catalogue. By Natalia Babina. The State
Hermitage. St. Petersburg. The State Hermitage
Publishers, 2010. – 108 pp., ills.
The catalogue, published on the occasion
of 400 years of the outstanding Flemish artist,
includes 33 paintings, mostly genre ones,
belonging to the peak of his artistic career
(1640s – 1650s), preserved at the State Hermitage.
Many of these are true masterpieces
demonstrating the various aspects of Teniers’
art and the specificities of his style.
Centre Pompidou in the State Hermitage
Museum. Exhibition Catalogue. The State
Hermitage. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage
Publishers, 2010. – 64 pp., ills.
The catalogue was prepared within the Centre
Pompidou in the State Hermitage Museum exhibition
and festival. In Russia, it was the first largescale
show of masterpieces of painting, sculpture
and video art from the renowned Musée
National d’Art Moderne, Paris, which belongs
to the Centre Pompidou, as well as the demonstration
of other artistic forms by modern
French artists. The catalogue includes articles
by leading experts in modern French art.
The Hermitage in Photographs. Exhibition
Catalogue. The State Hermitage. St. Petersburg:
The State Hermitage Publishers, 2010. –
176 pp., ills.
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