Roundtable on “Russian Art Studies amid European Schools: Archival Material from Museum and Library Collections”

Moscow, 6 October 2020

On 6 October 2020, the State Institute for Art Studies held the roundtable “Russian Art Studies amid European Schools: Archival Material from Museum and Library Collections” within the framework of the Fourth International Sarabianov Congress of Art Historians on “Russian Art Studies amid European Schools: Intellectual History and Migration of Ideas”.

The meeting aimed to introduce archives of outstanding art historians that now form part of state and private collections and raise several significant problems pertaining to their study, exhibiting and publication. The importance of personal archives of art critics and historians, including diaries, letters and creative and research legacy, to the study of scholarly contacts between Russia and Europe and the reconstruction of the history of Russian art studies was an especially far-reaching discussion topic.


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Agenda

6 October 2020

Morning session starts at 11:00 a.m.

Moderator: Tatiana Goryaeva (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts)

  1. Margarita Aksenenko (Manuscripts Department, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). “Scholars’ Materials in the Manuscripts Department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Overview”
  2. Natalia Samoilenko (Russian State Library, Moscow). “More Than Texts: Pictorial Materials of Art Historians in the RSL Collection (M.A. Ilyin, N.M. Tarabukin, V.V. Kirillov)”
  3. Elena Solomakha (Manuscripts Department, State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg). “Scholarly Contacts of Ernst Friedrich von Liphart and Their Impact on Studies of Spanish and Italian Painting in the Hermitage (based on materials of Liphart’s personal archive)”
  4. Ilia Doronchenkov (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). “Wladimir Weidle: Unrealized Projects (based on materials from the Bakhmeteff Archive, Columbia University, New York City)”
  5. Anna Chudetskaya (Russian State University for the Humanities, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). “More About Pavel Ettinger’s Archive (18661948): Looking for Kindred Minds”

Afternoon session starts at 3 p.m.

  1. Yelena Terkel, Anastasia Lishnevskaya (Manuscripts Department, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). “I.E. Grabar’s Personal Archive as a Source on the History of International Contacts in Art Studies”
  2. Elena Vasilieva (Manuscripts Department, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). “Spiritual Kinship: H. Sedlmayr’s Letters to M.V. Alpatov in the Manuscripts Department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. First Publication”
  3. Olga Selivanova (Russian Academy of Sciences Archive, Moscow). “Personal Archive of Art Historian and Philosopher M.A. Lifshitz in the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive (Preliminary Overview)”
  4. Dmitry Gutov (Lifshitz Institute, Moscow). “M. Lifshitz’s Archive in the Collections of Heirs and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Comments in the Margins”
  5. Nadezhda Osipova (Russian Academy of Sciences Archive, Moscow). “Papers of Academician Vladimir Maksimovich Friche (Wladimir Maximowitsch Fritsche), art and literary critic and historian, in the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive”
  6. Mikhail Kamensky (Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow). “N.I. Khardzhiev and V.M. Kozovoi”
  7. Tatiana (Tanya) Chebotareva (Columbia University, New York City). “Papers of Art Historians in the Bakhmeteff Archive: Fannina W. Halle, Valentin Zubov, Grigory Ostrovskiy, Vladimir Sakharov, Victor Kholodkov”
  8. Alexandra Obukhova (Garage, Moscow). “Papers of Art Scholars in the Garage Archives”

Collected roundtable proceedings will be published in 2021.