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Book/Printed Material Album Number 14: Drawings and Sketches by Students of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery Workshop.

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Title

  • Album Number 14: Drawings and Sketches by Students of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery Workshop.

Summary

  • The collection of kuzhbushki (a corrupt form of the German, Kunstbuch, meaning "book of art") held by the V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine contains albums of drawings by teachers and students at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery icon-painting workshop. Also included in the collection are albums containing examples of West European engravings from the 16th--18th centuries. The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery workshop was one of the oldest art schools in Eastern Europe. Among the drawings in this album are portraits of prominent church and political figures, sketches on religious and mythological subjects, landscapes and ornamental designs, genre scenes, and anatomy exercises, many of which are signed and dated by the artists. Kuzhbushki constitute an important historical source for the study of the development of easel and mural painting in Ukraine. They testify to the artistic and cultural connections between Ukrainian and West European art and constitute a unique monument of Ukrainian and broader East Slavonic culture and art of the 18th century.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1700 to 1799]

Headings

  • -  Ukraine--Kiev
  • -  1700 to 1799
  • -  Art--Study and teaching
  • -  Icons
  • -  Kievo-Pecherskaya Monastery

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 110 folios : 220 drawings.
  • -  Original resource at: V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.
  • -  Content in Russian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666620

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Album Number 14: Drawings and Sketches by Students of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery Workshop. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1799, 1700] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666620/.

APA citation style:

(1700) Album Number 14: Drawings and Sketches by Students of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery Workshop. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1799] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666620/.

MLA citation style:

Album Number 14: Drawings and Sketches by Students of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery Workshop. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1799, 1700] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666620/>.