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"Catherine the Great's audacious power grab in 1762 marked a watershed in imperial Russian history. During a momentous 34-year reign, her rapacious vision and intellectual curiosity led to vast territorial expansion, cultural advancement, and civic, educational and social reform. In this pioneering book, Rosalind Blakesley reveals the remarkable role women artists played in her pursuit of these ambitions. With challenging commissions for an elite cast of Russian patrons, their work underscores the extent to which cultural enrichment co-existed with the empress's imperial designs. Catherine's acquisitions propelled renowned artists to new heights. The history paintings that she purchased from Angelica Kauffman brought the Swiss artist to the attention of keen new patrons, while Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun found in Russia safe refuge from the horrors of revolutionary France. Just as important were Catherine's relationships with lesser-known artists. The young sculptor Marie-Anne Collot made the arduous journey from Paris to St Petersburg to assist on the equestrian monument to Peter the Great and enthralled Russian society with her portrait busts, while Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna, wife of Catherine's troubled son Paul, sculpted cameos which the empress sent to distinguished correspondents abroad. With stories of extraordinary artistic endeavour intertwined with the intrigue of Catherine's personal life, Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great uncovers the impact of these and other artists at one of Europe's most elaborate courts."--

Women artists --- Art, European --- History --- Appreciation --- Catherine --- Екатерина --- Katarzyna --- Ekaterina --- Katarina, --- Kateřina --- Catharine, --- Catharine --- Catherine, --- Katharina, --- Catalina, --- Katharina --- Art collections. --- Art, Modern --- European art --- Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists) --- Zaj (Group of artists) --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Artists --- Art --- patrons [philanthropists] --- art collections --- vrouwelijke kunstenaar --- Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth L. --- Catherine II the Great [Empress of Russia] --- Kauffmann, Angelica --- Collot, Marie-Anne --- anno 1700-1799 --- Russia --- Europe --- vrouwelijke kunstenaars. --- verzameling Catharina II (tsarina van Rusland). --- Catharina II (tsarina van Rusland). --- 18de eeuw. --- Rusland. --- Europa. --- vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- verzameling Catharina II (tsarina van Rusland) --- Catharina II (tsarina van Rusland) --- 18de eeuw --- Rusland --- Europa --- roofkunst. --- Lam Gods (Gebr Van Eyck). --- van Eyck (gebr.). --- Gent.

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Art, Russian --- Russia --- Europe, Western --- Soviet Union --- Relations

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This volume of thirteen essays presents rigorous new research by western and Russian scholars on Russian art of the nienteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Over More than three decades after the publication of Elizabeth Valkenier's pioneering monograph, Russian Realist Art, this impressive collection showcases the latest methodology and subjects of inquiry, expanding the parameters of what has become an area of enormous intellectual and popular appeal. Major artists including Ilia Repin, Valentin Serov, and Wassily Kandinsky are considered afresh, as are the Peredvizhnik and Mir iskusstva movements and the Abramtsevo community. The book also breaks new ground to embrace subjects such as Russian graphic satire and children's book illustration, as well as stimulating aspects of patronage and display. Collectively, the essays include a range of approaches, from close textual readings to institutional critique. They also develop major themes inspired by Valkenier's work, among them: the emergence and evolution of cultural institutions, the development of aesthetic discourse and artistic terminology, debates between the Academy of Arts and its challengers, art criticism and the Russian press, and the resonance of various forms of nationalism within the art world. These and other questions engage multiple disciplines—those of art history, Slavic Russian studies, and cultural history, among others—and promise to fuel a vibrant and ascendant field.

Silver age (Russian arts) --- Realism in art --- Art, Russian --- History. --- History --- Elizabeth Valkenier, Ilia Repin, Valentin Serov, Wassily Kandinsky, Peredvizhnik movement, Mir iskusstva movement, Abramtsevo community, Russian graphic satire.

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fin de siècle --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- Les Vingt --- Sickert, Walter Richard --- Morris, William --- Foulds, John --- Ford, Ford Madox --- Forster, E.M. --- Ibsen, Henrik --- Shakespeare, William --- Otlet, Paul --- La Fontaine, Henri --- Shaw, George Bernard --- 19de eeuw --- 20ste eeuw --- Europa --- Groot-Brittannië --- België --- Les Vingt (1883-1893) --- Hueffer, Ford Madox --- fin de siècle. --- cultuurgeschiedenis. --- geschiedenis. --- Les Vingt (1883-1893). --- Sickert, Walter Richard. --- Morris, William. --- Foulds, John. --- Hueffer, Ford Madox. --- Ibsen, Henrik. --- Shakespeare, William. --- Otlet, Paul. --- La Fontaine, Henri. --- Shaw, George Bernard. --- 19de eeuw. --- 20ste eeuw. --- Europa. --- Groot-Brittannië. --- België. --- symbolisme. --- Zrzavý, Jan.

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