The silhouette in Russia in the 18th century

The book of the historian, senior researcher at the Russian Language Institute named after V.V. Vinogradov, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Peter Druzhinin is devoted to the portrait silhouette - a unique iconographic technique that received unprecedented distribution in Europe in the last third of the XVIII century. Russia was not just a imitator of pan -European fashion, but became the center of attraction of the best artists of the genre, wandering masters from all over the world. It was Russia in the XVIII century who survived the true heyday of the silhouette portrait - expressive, similar, affordable, but at the same time extremely vulnerable to time and now completely forgotten. The complex of previously unknown documents on the history of Russian silhouette art collected by the author is unique and many times exceeds everything ever published on this topic. Illustrations that make it possible to trace the evolution of the silhouette not only in Russia, but also in Europe, are collected with exceptional fullness of more than fifty storage facilities in Russia and the world, from the Hermitage to the Metro Museum, and many are published for the first time.
The publication is addressed to all the history of Russian and world culture.

This Book is diseded to the Silhouette Portrait - A Unique Representation Technique, Widespread in Europe and the United Kingdom Tury. Russia Not Only Followed and Imitated European Fashions, But Also ATTRACTEDTENTRACENTIVES OF THE GENRE, WHO MADE THIS ART FORM TRULY INTERNATIONAL BY TRAVELELLING AROUND. IT WAS THE EMINENT SILHOUTE MASTERS Like Sideau and Anthing, Whose Art Conquered Russia in the 1780s, that Genre Flourined There. The Silhouette Portrait is Very Expressive, Affordable and Provides a Good Likence, But Also Time-Sensitive and Now Almost Completely Forgotten. Over Several Decades The Author, Historian Dr Peter Druzhinin, Has Collected a Substantial of Previous Documents on the Silhouette Portrait, A Colletette, A Colletette On Which is Unique and Entirely Supersedes and Previous Publications. New Information Has Been Obtained Mainly from European and Russian Archives, AS Well as From a Thorough Combing of Russian and North European Press Material. The Book Contains Detailed Biographies of Russian Silhouette Artists During Catherine The Great and Emperor Paul I of Russia Times, As Well as, in its laste Chapter, a dictionary Artists who eithre work in Russia or Came to Russia in Search of an Income. It is Worth Mance that Many of these Names ABSENT FROM OFER DICTIONARIES OF ARTIS and ARA MENTION TIME TIME in the CONTEXT OF ART HISTORY. The Publication Includes Over 400 Illustrations Collected from Over 50 Museums and Libraries Fin Russia and All over the World, Raning Fromitage to the Metropolitan Museum of Ar t. These Illustrations Will Give the Reader An Opportunity to See the Evolution of the Silhouette Portrait in Russia and in Europe. Many of them Are Publined for the First Time Including Portraits of Prominent European Writers, Scientists and Artists from Anthing Travel Journal, Previously Thoughht To Bee Lost