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Art Museums and Galleries in Russia: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery

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Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Taganrog Museum of Art, Russian Museum, Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, Menshikov Palace, Radishchev Art Museum, Collections of the Russian Museum, Irbit State Museum of Fine Art, Kaliningrad Art Gallery. Excerpt: The Amber Room (English sometimes Amber Chamber, Russian: Yantarnaya komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer ) in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg is a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors . Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World ."Before it was lost, the original Amber Room represented a joint effort of German and Russian craftsmen. Construction of the Amber Room began in 1701 to 1709 in Prussia . The room was designed by German baroque sculptor Andreas Schlter and constructed by the Danish amber craftsman Gottfried Wolfram and remained at Charlottenburg Palace until 1716 when it was given by Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I to his then ally, Tsar Peter the Great of the Russian Empire . In Russia it was expanded and after several renovations, it covered more than 55 square meters and contained over six tons of amber. The Amber Room was looted during World War II by Nazi Germany and brought to Knigsberg . Knowledge of its whereabouts was lost in the chaos at the end of the war.In 1979 efforts began to rebuild the Amber room at Tsarskoye Selo . In 2003, after decades of work by Russian craftsmen, the reconstructed Amber Room was inaugurated in the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia.History Creation Section of the reconstructed Amber Room.The Amber Room was made from 1701 onwards in order to be installed at Charlottenburg Palace, home of Friedrich I, the ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Art Museums and Galleries in Russia: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery. To get started finding Art Museums and Galleries in Russia: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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2010
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1156397022

Art Museums and Galleries in Russia: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery

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Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Taganrog Museum of Art, Russian Museum, Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, Menshikov Palace, Radishchev Art Museum, Collections of the Russian Museum, Irbit State Museum of Fine Art, Kaliningrad Art Gallery. Excerpt: The Amber Room (English sometimes Amber Chamber, Russian: Yantarnaya komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer ) in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg is a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors . Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World ."Before it was lost, the original Amber Room represented a joint effort of German and Russian craftsmen. Construction of the Amber Room began in 1701 to 1709 in Prussia . The room was designed by German baroque sculptor Andreas Schlter and constructed by the Danish amber craftsman Gottfried Wolfram and remained at Charlottenburg Palace until 1716 when it was given by Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I to his then ally, Tsar Peter the Great of the Russian Empire . In Russia it was expanded and after several renovations, it covered more than 55 square meters and contained over six tons of amber. The Amber Room was looted during World War II by Nazi Germany and brought to Knigsberg . Knowledge of its whereabouts was lost in the chaos at the end of the war.In 1979 efforts began to rebuild the Amber room at Tsarskoye Selo . In 2003, after decades of work by Russian craftsmen, the reconstructed Amber Room was inaugurated in the Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia.History Creation Section of the reconstructed Amber Room.The Amber Room was made from 1701 onwards in order to be installed at Charlottenburg Palace, home of Friedrich I, the ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Art Museums and Galleries in Russia: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery. To get started finding Art Museums and Galleries in Russia: Pushkin Museum, Hermitage Museum, Amber Room, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tretyakov Gallery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
76
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Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1156397022

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