Art world Konstantin Somov

The book is the first study on the problem of the place of Western European and Russian art of the past and present in the work of Konstantin Somov, one of the participants in the St. Petersburg Association of the World of Art. Identification of the main interests of the master in the field of European artistic heritage of the past - France of the 18th century, Holland and Flanders of the XVII century, antiquity, Russia of the second quarter of the XIX century - as well as their combinations with the enthusiasm of modern European schedules, such as Obri Birdley, Thomas Theodor Heine, Bruno Paul, allowed to see one of the ways of becoming the artistic doctrine of Art Nouveau in Russia.
The book is illustrated by color images