Favorite art history heritage

The book first contains articles and lectures of a great scientist, an agrarian economist dedicated to visual arts.
The study of A.V. Chayanov "Moscow meetings of paintings a hundred years ago" is saturated with little -known facts and sources in life, history and bibliography of private art galleries of the early 19th century.
Research "Old Western engraving. A brief guide for museum work "represents a compressed course in the history of engraving and its technology, focuses the attention of museums on the problems of practical attribution.
The works of A.V. Chayanov in the field of fine art have long turned into a bibliographic rarity and, gathered together, they represent an outstanding scientist in his hypostasis collector-collector-art.
This collection of articles on art can be used as a training manual for students of art, for museum workers, for everyone who is interested in the personality of an encyclopedist scientist A.V. Chayanov.
The book is illustrated by images of engravings and picturesque paintings mentioned by the author