Contemporary Lubok ( Segodnyashny lubok ) was a publishing house established by G. B. Gorodetsky shortly after the outbreak of the First World War (1914). Over a period of three months, it produced a...

Heinrich Stackenschneider, Harald Julius von Bosse, Ludwig Bonstedt and several other eclectic architects were inspired by Baroque and Rococo motifs between the 1840s and 1860s. The compositions and ...

Alexei Venetsianov was more than just the creator of a school and teacher of many artists. His influence on the changes in Russian art was truly enormous. Exhibitions of works by Venetsianov and his ...

The Gothic Revival began after the defeat of Napoleon, when there was a movement away from the bombastic soullessness of Empire towards a more intimate Romanticism. The foundations of the style lay i...

At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the family portrait began to enjoy increasing popularity. Quiet domestic joys and the heartfelt affections of spouses, parents and children wer...