500 unknowns
49.99 €
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500 unknowns
49.99 €
The book by A.V. Kibovsky, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Candidate of Historical Sciences, is devoted to one of the modern and most demanded types of expertise of works of Russian portrait painting - the historical-object attribution method. This method, scientifically substantiated by the author in 2000, is based on the analysis of the artistic image with the help of knowledge about the uniform, awards and heraldry of the Russian Empire in conjunction with genealogical, biographical and historical data. For a quarter of a century of practical work, A.V. Kibovsky has managed to identify and return lost names to many "portraits of the unknown" in museums and private collections. 500 of them are presented in this book. In addition, the publication contains a sketch of the development of the historical-object attribution method from the 1880s to the present day, which tells about its difficult and sometimes tragic twists and turns in the 20th century and about those scientists who laid the theoretical and practical foundations that ensured the scientific recognition of the method at the turn of our century. The publication is addressed to a wide range of readers and represents the largest reference book on military iconography to date. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that not so long ago all the portraits presented were listed as unknown or were signed with other people's names. Many attributions are introduced into the scientific turnover for the first time. The book will be of interest both to professionals - art historians, historians, museum specialists - and to all those interested in Russian painting and the history of pre-revolutionary Russia.
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