USSR 1963 - Book "Russian art of XVIII century" 

Series: Fine art library for people's universities of culture, amateur and school libraries.

Author: Natalia Lapshina; 

Publisher: USSR Academy of Arts,  Moscow - 76 pages with illustrations.

Softcover.

Coated paper.

Format: 160x212 mm.

Good condition book.

The book examines the path traversed by the Russian art of XVIII century. In this century, many new, previously unheard of phenomena. There is a flourishing secular and independent of church culture, associated with the development of and access to the world stage of the Russian state. Paphos creation, powerful lifting permeates Russian art of the era. This can be seen in the architecture and sculpture, and painting. For Russian art of XVIII century is characterized by a rapid pace of development. Different styles and trends quickly follow each other, and sometimes both combined. To express the new ideas of citizenship and humanism artists seek and find new, more sophisticated means of expression. A number of the works of such masters as Rastrelli, Bazhenov, Cameron, Kazakov in architecture as Shubin, Falcone and Kozlowski in sculpture as Rokotov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky painting, rightfully belongs to the biggest achievements of the world art culture of XVIII century.