Faberge Revealed: At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Faberge Revealed: At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The exquisite objects created by goldsmith and jeweler Peter Carl FabergÃ© and his studio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the aristocracy and nobility of imperial Russia are considered to be some of the most refined examples of the jeweler's art of any age.Â Of greatest fascination are the extraordinary Easter eggs created as special commissions for the Russian imperial family and other notable patrons - works that remain unparalleled in their ingenuity of construction and sheer beauty.
Â Accompanying a major exhibition Faberge Revealed represents a landmark for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and for FabergÃ© scholarship. The essays by GÃ©za von Habsburg and other scholars present new findings on FabergÃ©, his workshops, and the creation of these extraordinary objects. For the first time all items by or attributed to FabergÃ© in VMFA's collection are documented along with the museum's significant holdings of other Russian decorative arts. Also included is a section on forgeries that bravely confronts this vexing question. Every object has been splendidly re-photographed for this book - and the detailed photography alone should provide inestimable value for future FabergÃ© scholarship.
Richly illustrated with some 600 photographs, the volume documents an important collection bequeathed in 1947 to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by Lillian Thomas Pratt, of Fredericksburg, Va., the wife of General Motors executive John Lee Pratt. Her collection, assembled between 1933 and 1946, comprised several hundred creations by the Faberge workshops and by other Russian imperial jewelers. These exquisite, marvelously crafted objects, range from the majestic jeweled imperial eggs to delicate jeweled flowers in vases to diamond-encrusted icons and tiaras, to animal figures nimbly carved from precious stone.

Contents:

Introduction by GÃ©za von HabsburgÂ
Chapter 1: The House of FabergÃ©/by GÃ©za von Habsburg
Chapter 2: Behind the Scenes at FabergÃ©: The St. Petersburg Workshops/Â by Ulla Tillander-Godenhieim
Chapter 3: FabergÃ© and His Russian Competitors/ by GÃ©za von Habsburg
Chapter 4: FabergÃ© and His Foreign Competitors
Chapter 5: Mrs. Pratt's Imperial Easter Eggs / by Carol Aiken
Chapter 6: The Zarnitza Sailor and His Place in History / by Christel Ludewig McCaniess
Chapter 7: FabergÃ© and Grand Duchess Vladimir / by Alexander von Solodkoff
Chapter 8: Lillian Thomas Pratt and A La Vieille Russie: A Personal Relationship/ by Mark Schaffer
Chapter 9: FauxbergÃ© / by GÃ©za von Habsburg
Catalogue: FabergÃ©/Other Makers/Forgeries
Country USA
Brand Rizzoli
Manufacturer Skira Rizzoli
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780847837380
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-07-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780847837380

Country	USA
Brand	Rizzoli
Manufacturer	Skira Rizzoli
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780847837380
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2011-07-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780847837380

Faberge Revealed: At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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