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publIcatIons publIcatIons<br />
Khmelnitskaya, Yekaterina. Serafim Sudbinin.<br />
At the Turn of Epochs: from Art Nouveau<br />
to Art Deco. St. Petersburg: Chisty List,<br />
2010. – 164 pp., ills.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book is devoted to the actor, painter and<br />
sculptor Serafim Sudbinin and porcelain productions<br />
after sketches by him.<br />
Yarovaya, Yelena. <strong>The</strong> Heraldry of the Genoese<br />
Crimea. <strong>The</strong> State Hermitage. St. Petersburg:<br />
<strong>The</strong> State Hermitage Publishers, 2010. –<br />
208 pp., ills.<br />
Comparison of the coats-of-arms on the tombstones<br />
of the Genoese nobility of the 14th and<br />
15th centuries and the depictions of these<br />
in armorials demonstrates the use of heraldry<br />
practices in the Genoese colonies in the<br />
Crimea.<br />
Julia Kagan. Gem Engraving in Britain from<br />
Antiquity to the Present. With a Catalogue<br />
of British Engraved Gems in the State<br />
Hermitage Museum. <strong>The</strong> Beazley Archive and<br />
Archaeopress. Oxford, 2010. – 496 pp., ills.<br />
For the first time, the author describes changes<br />
in the use of gems, methods of their reproduction,<br />
the nature of patronage and collecting in<br />
England, history of museum collections and<br />
the role of Britain in the study of it. <strong>The</strong> book<br />
includes A Catalogue of British Engraved Gems<br />
and an appendix (also on CD) with An Alphabetical<br />
Chronological Table of British Gem Carvers<br />
and Imitators made with the American glyptologist<br />
Helen Serras-Herman.<br />
<strong>The</strong> cuRaToR SerieS<br />
Nikulin, Nikolai. War Memories. <strong>The</strong> State<br />
Hermitage. 3rd ed. St. Petersburg: <strong>The</strong> State<br />
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 244 pp., ills.<br />
(“Curator” series)<br />
For over thirty years, the author had kept the<br />
manuscript of the book in the drawer of his<br />
desk, without any hope to have it published.<br />
He had barely finished high school, when he<br />
found himself in the most bloodshed sections<br />
of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts, finishing<br />
the war in Berlin. It was a miracle that he survived.<br />
<strong>The</strong> book is an attempt to rid himself<br />
of the burden of the memories of that war.<br />
In it, the reader will not find optimistically<br />
patriotic battle scenes typical of literary garbage.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story Nikulin tells is the truth of the<br />
trenches.<br />
pedagogical and<br />
educaTional ediTiTionS<br />
Krollau, Natalia. French Painting of the 19th –<br />
Early 20th Centuries. <strong>The</strong> State Hermitage.<br />
St. Petersburg: <strong>The</strong> State Hermitage Publishers,<br />
2010. – 136 pp., ills. (“Your Hermitage” series)<br />
This is a story of the evolution of French painting,<br />
based on works from the collection of the<br />
State Hermitage Museum. <strong>The</strong> book tells about<br />
the radical changes in the pictorial idiom, connected<br />
with the appearance of Impressionism<br />
and subsequent trends, such as Post-Impressionism,<br />
Fauvism, Cubism and Purism.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Crouching Boy by Michelangelo. By Sergei<br />
Androsov. <strong>The</strong> State Hermitage. St. Petersburg:<br />
<strong>The</strong> State Hermitage Publishers, 2010. –<br />
20 pp., ills. (“Masterpieces of the Hermitage”<br />
series)<br />
<strong>The</strong> sculpture, known traditionally as the<br />
Crouching Boy, by the Italian Renaissance sculptor,<br />
painter and architect Michelangelo Buonarroti<br />
(1475–1564), came to Russia in 1785<br />
as part of John Lyde-Brown’s collection. <strong>The</strong><br />
highest quality of execution confirms that the<br />
unfinished sculpture belongs to Michelangelo.<br />
As was formerly believed, it had been created<br />
c. 1524, during his work in the Capella Medici<br />
in Florence. It is more plausible, however, that,<br />
although conceived about 1523–1524, the<br />
sculpture was made somewhat later, c. 1530–<br />
1534, probably in connection with the sculptor’s<br />
other plan that never materialized.<br />
arT BooKS<br />
Masterpieces of Western European Jewellery<br />
from the 16th to 19th Centuries from the<br />
Hermitage Collection. By Olga Kostyuk.<br />
<strong>The</strong> State Hermitage. St. Petersburg: <strong>The</strong> State<br />
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 264 pp., ills.<br />
In 2010, the Hermitage started a new publishing<br />
project, art books. <strong>The</strong> first in the series<br />
was the book devoted to the renowned collection<br />
of Western European and Russian jewellery<br />
of the 16th – 19th centuries. It includes<br />
but 100 objects of the collection of many thousand<br />
works of precious metals and gems. <strong>The</strong><br />
core of the collection was the Imperial Gallery<br />
of Precious Objects, which had productions of<br />
the best European jewellers. Some were commissioned<br />
by members of the Imperial family,<br />
others received as diplomatic gifts. <strong>The</strong> Gallery<br />
acquired not only the most expensive works,<br />
but also the rarest and artistically valuable<br />
ones. <strong>The</strong>refore nowadays, the Hermitage jewellery<br />
collection is characterized by exquisite<br />
works of art, rather than just the abundance<br />
of gold, precious stones and platinum.<br />
reSearch and<br />
meThodological puBlicaTionS<br />
Children’s Art Classes as a Factor<br />
in Personality Formation and Creative<br />
Development. Proceedings of the International<br />
Conference. 17–18 January 2008. <strong>The</strong> State<br />
Hermitage. St. Petersburg: <strong>The</strong> State Hermitage<br />
Publishers, 2009. – 86 pp., ills.<br />
<strong>The</strong> volume includes the materials of the conference<br />
devoted to 50 years of the Art Studio<br />
of the School Centre held at the School Centre<br />
Methodology Sector of the State Hermitage<br />
Museum. <strong>The</strong> conference papers were devoted<br />
to theoretical and practical aspects of the impact<br />
of art classes on the formation of a creative<br />
personality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Museum and Problems of “Cultural<br />
Tourism”. Materials of the 8th Round Table.<br />
8–9 April 2010. St. Petersburg: <strong>The</strong> State<br />
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 184 pp., ills.<br />
<strong>The</strong> materials of the <strong>annual</strong> Round Table devoted<br />
to the exchange of experiences between<br />
museums.<br />
<strong>The</strong> First Decade of the 21st Century: New<br />
Language of Art?! Materials of the Russo-British<br />
Round Table with the Newspeak: Today’s British<br />
Art programme. 25 October 2009. Ed. by<br />
S. Kudryavtseva and Ye. Lopatkina. <strong>The</strong> State<br />
Hermitage; Pro Arte. St. Petersburg: <strong>The</strong> State<br />
Hermitage Publishers, 2010. – 74 pp., ills.<br />
Modern art became the centre of interests in<br />
the Hermitage policy in 2007, when the Hermitage<br />
20/21 project was officially adopted. In accordance<br />
with the main goals of the project<br />
(the expanding of the twentieth-century art<br />
exposition and the organization of exhibition<br />
and other activities connected with modern<br />
art), several exhibition programmes became<br />
materialized in the Hermitage. <strong>The</strong> Russo-British<br />
Seminar – Round Table, with the participation<br />
of well-known art critics, curators and<br />
artists from Russia and elsewhere, was held in<br />
connection with the Newspeak: Today’s British<br />
Art exhibition.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Art of Jewellery and Material Culture.<br />
Eighteenth colloquium: 19–23 April 2010.<br />
Abstracts of papers. <strong>The</strong> State Hermitage.<br />
St. Petersburg: <strong>The</strong> State Hermitage Publishers,<br />
2010. – 188 pp.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Art of Jewellery and Material Culture colloquium<br />
has been held in the Hermitage since<br />
1996. <strong>The</strong> abstracts published are by experts<br />
in various spheres, viz. archaeologists, gemmologists,<br />
historians, art scholars, anthropologists,<br />
specialists in archival science, designers,<br />
artists and jewellers. In combination,<br />
they give an overall picture of the origin and<br />
development of jewellery, as well as the state<br />
of the art.<br />
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