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Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Paperback
Condition - New
Listed - 10 months ago
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Ships From - Virginia
Est. Publication Date - Nov 2001
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reated to accompany an exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (from September 2001 until January 2002), this atalog features objects that are distinguished by their expensive materials and high level of artisanry. The decorative ai che catalog are organized by their country of origin, including the Christian East, the Ottoman and Safavid courts, Polan Lithuania, Austria, England, the Dutch Republic, Sweden, Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. Essays contextualize the colle with studies on ceremony, foreign relations, diplomacy, the European decorative arts, and the gifts received from the 16t through the 18th centuries. Shifman is a curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Walton is an art historian at New York University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland
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Gifts to the Tzars 1500-1700: Treasures from the Kremlin
ISBN: 9780810906006
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From 1547, when Ivan the Terrible declared himself tsar of Russia, to 1712, when Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg, one of the highlights of Moscow court life was the formal presenta...
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