Faberge and the Russian Master Goldsmiths

A broad sampling of masterpieces from the great Russian collections, as well as from private and public collections, are depicted here in nearly 300 full-color illustrations, a number of which are published here for the first time.. Perhaps because of the popularity of his Easter eggs, Fabergé’s skilled competitors have been largely overlooked. Today, the creations of the Russian master goldsmiths are dispersed throughout the world. Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths tells their story and features their masterpieces as well as Fabergé’s. Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920) is deservedly the most famous creator of the stunning gold, silver, and jewel-studded treasures of imperial Russia

Hill, curator of Russian art for Sotheby's, New York, briefly reviews Faberge's life and artistic sources. In their opening essay, Smorodinova and Ulyanova, curators at Moscow's Historical Museum, offer a thorough survey of this art and discuss pioneers such as Faberge, Pavel Ovchinnokov and Ivan Khlebnikov. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. . They fashioned religious icons and chalices drawing on age-old traditions, and innovated forms in carved hardstone flowers or stone figurines. Objects such as cigarette cases have a distinctively Russian feel, while a striking naturalism was achieved in animal carvings of a hippopotamus or a frog. From Publishers Weekly The renowned Easter eggs made by Peter Carl Faberge for the czars of Russia lead off this cavalcade of treasures, captu

Gerard Hill is director of Russian Art for Sotheby’s, New York. G. . L. Ulyanova are curators at the Historical Museum in Moscow. Smorodinova and B. G

Perfectly Faberge I just returned from St Petersburg Russia where I had the privilege of visiting the three year old Faberge museum. Seeing them in person was amazing and I tried to get a book from their gift shop but it was only in Russian. I took great photos but wanted something m. L. Gomez said Beautiful book.. This is a very complete book about Faberge's House Jewelry. The book comes with many great photographs of many famous and less known Faberge's Jewels, specially the Imperial eggs. If you like Jewelry and its History of just the Imperial Russia Historic period I real. Faberge and the Russian Master Goldsmiths is a fine book illustrating the Faberge eggs master pieces Faberge and the Russian Master Goldsmiths is a very nice book with illustration and nice pictures of the Russian Faberge shop masters.