Golitsyn Museum on the Volkhonka
Moscow: Khudozhnik i kniga, 2004. Softcover. In Russian. Color pictorial wraps, gilt titling and decoration; 304 pp.; frontispiece and profuse color images. NF. Item #128088
ISBN: 5901685733
Catalogue lists 151 works and was published for an exhibition held 5 July 2004 - 5 September 2004. From the State Hermitage Museum website: The Golitsyn Museum was one of the first museums of Western European art to open in Russia (1865). The exhibition is a nearly complete reconstruction of the collection of the art museum which opened on the initiative of Prince Mikhail Golitsyn in 1865. Among the 169 exhibits which the State Hermitage has loaned to the exhibition and which visitors will be able to see are works typical of the art and culture of Ancient Greece, Ancient Italy and Rome, canvasses by master painters of Western Europe, Meissen porcelain and also Western European silver. The exhibition was organized by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts together with the State Hermitage and with participation by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and numerous other museums.
Price: $40.00