Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial & European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum

Odom, Anne; Arend, Liana Paredes

ISBN 10: 0965495825 / ISBN 13: 9780965495820

Published by Hillwood Museum Bookshop (edition First Edition), 1999

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Book by Odom, Anne, Arend, Liana Paredes

Reviews: The Hillwood Museum in Washington houses the Russian Imperial and European art collected by Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post, an accomplished businesswoman and passionate connoisseur. The collection is unique in the United States and probably in the world outside Russia and was started when Post accompanied her husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, to Russia in 1937-38. Excellent photographs convey the beauty of the house and the splendor with which it was decorated. The collection contains pieces in every artistic medium?porcelain, landscape paintings, portraits, furniture, gold and silver objects, crystal, enamel boxes, and more?and each piece is a work of the highest quality and so arranged that one understands the full range of Russian Imperial achievement in the visual arts. This volume should be included in every library where works on Russian art and culture are collected.?Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport,
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial & ...
Publisher: Hillwood Museum Bookshop (edition First Edition)
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.