Zaveshchano Kazani

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Andrei Fedorovich Likhachev built a substantial collection of Western European and Russian art: more than 300 works by Western European artists, and approximately 100 by Russian artists. Likhachev{u2019}s collection of Russian art covers Russian secular painting broadly and is spangled with a few masterpieces. He regularly acquired paintings from artists he knew personally, such as V. G. Khudiakov and I. I. Shishkin, and these artists are well represented in his collection. He was always seeking something new, and his tenacity led him to some genuine finds. Levitskii{u2019}s portrait of the merchant A. I. Borisov is an intimate and accomplished work by Russia{u2019}s first great portraitist. An early work by Tropinin, portrait of the dancer T. S. Karpakova, was exhibited in the famous exhibition initiated by Diagilev in 1905 at Tavricheskii Palace. His taste in Western European art leaned toward Dutch and Flemish landscapes and portraits with a few works of the sixteenth century and many of the seventeenth. Vedute and portraits by Italian artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and portraits by Christian Dietrich and Angelica Kauffman characterize Likhachev{u2019}s interests in Western European painting. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Tatarstan Museum of Fine Arts brings together works of painting, graphic art, and applied art, which together give a sense of a major nineteenth-century collection as a whole. The book combines insightful analysis of the works reproduced with a generous selection of color illustrations. The exhibition catalogue reproduces paintings and drawings by Russian artists (Aivazovsky, Beggrow, Borovikovsky, Briullov, Levitsky, Perov, Shishkin, A. Likhachev, Khudiakov, Remel, Maksimov, Zhuravlev), paintings woodcuts and etchings Western European masters (Lucas Cranach the Elder, Dietrich, Lampi, Heemskerk, Cuyp, Stimmer, Matthäus, Merian, Caspar Merian, Riedinger), and a range of Russian and Western European sculpture and decorative arts (candlesticks, paired vases, teapots, plates and dishes). -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.

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