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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...
Important changes occurred in Russian art life in the 1820s and 1830s. The conservatism of the Imperial Academy of Arts had long impeded many of the vital requirements of society. Pupils of the Acade...
Eclecticism (also known as Historicism) combined new architectural elements with former styles to create a wide variety of possible designs. The word comes from the Greek eklektikos (“selective”), im...