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Pavel Tretiakov’S Icons, Wendy Salmond
Pavel Tretiakov’S Icons, Wendy Salmond
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"Between 1890 and his death in 1898, the Moscow art collector Pavel Tretiakov acquired sixty-two icons of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With this comparatively late entry into the world of icons, Tretiakov laid the foundation for one of the world’s greatest collections of medieval Russian paintings. Why is it, then, that Tretiakov’s icons are today so rarely mentioned and so hard to find? The most practical explanation is that they were simply swallowed up into the vast repositories of the reorganized State Tretiakov Gallery in 1930, along with thousands of icons from churches and private collections nationalized afer 1917. …
Review Of Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape By Avril King, Wendy Salmond
Review Of Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape By Avril King, Wendy Salmond
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Wendy Salmond reviews Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape by Avril King.