Interview

Antique business kitchen and how to do the cooking properly in there…

The historical class of the Imperial Academy of Arts of the second half of the XIX century is a subject which until now almost did not attract the attention of Russian art critics. The book of V.-I.T. Bogdan has filled up a serious gap in Art Studies. This fundamental research represents the result of serious and hard work of a scientist who was working for many years in the Research museum of the Russian Academy of Arts (RM RAA). For the first time ever the book compiles and generalizes the extensive material which gives a rare opportunity to get an idea about the development of the historical class, being the leading in the Academy of Arts in second half of the XIX century.
O.A. Krivdina

Arts and crafts

Greener. A “Manufacturing” piece maker or a piece manufacturer

Photo

HOW MUCH DOES PHOTO COST?

Disputes over the subject, whether photography is art or not, have fallen into oblivion. At present day photography holds strong positions in the pantheon of fine arts. Photography as a kind of art is comparatively young if to compare with the “traditional” visual kinds of art that have been existing more than one millennium of their history.

XXI century

I love the blue sky ...

Every art period promoted the artists whose works were emblematic for the image of St. Petersburg – the home city of all four arts of the Russian fine art. It fascinated all the representatives of the creative professions by its luxury and splendor, mysterious romanticism and strict majesty.

Art epoch

Utkin, The Engraver: biography in portraits

Having interest in life and works of the portrait-painter A.G. Varnek, who is my great-great-great-grandfather, I also collect various facts and evidence from the lives of those people whom he engraved in his portraits. One of them was a prominent Russian engraver Nikolay Ivanovich Utkin