The Russian jewellery industry developed in the nineteenth century, when precious objects made to special order encountered opposition from merchandise accessible to all classes of society. The pione...

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 ...

Reacting against the strictures of the international academic style, Russian artists turned to native arts and crafts for inspiration, often deriving subject-matter from Russian history and fairytales...