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Gifts to the tsars, 1500-1700 : treasures of the Kremlin
- Title
- Gifts to the tsars, 1500-1700 : treasures of the Kremlin / Barry Shifman and Guy Walton.
- Author
- Shifman, Barry.
- Publication
- New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | NK512.I53 S54 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 336 pages : illustrations, plates; 32 cm
- Alternative Title
- Treasures of the Kremlin
- Subject
- Note
- Published in connection with an exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 326-333) and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Bret Waller -- Foreword / Elena Y. Gagarina -- 1. The Projection and Celebration of Power / James H. Billington -- 2. Russian Foreign Relations and Diplomacy / Irina A. Zagorodnyaya -- 3. Ambassadorial Ceremony at the Tsar's Court / Anzhella G. Kudriavtseva -- 4. Envoys and Treasures: Illustrations for the Tsars / Edward Kasinec and Robert H. Davis, Jr. -- 5. Diplomatic and Ambassadorial Gifts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Guy Walton -- 6. European Decorative Arts as Diplomatic Gifts / Barry Shifman -- 7. Ambassadorial Gifts: Masterpieces of European Silver at the Kremlin Armory / Galina A. Markova -- Catalogue. The Court of the Russian Tsar. Gifts from the Christian East. Gifts from the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia. Gifts from Poland and Lithuania. Gifts from Austria. Gifts from England. Gifts from the Dutch Republic. Gifts from Sweden. Gifts from Denmark. Gifts from Schleswig-Holstein.
- ISBN
- 0810906007
- 0936260750 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2001022185
- OCLC
- 45917185
- ocm45917185
- SCSB-4205989
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries