Torbik, Vladimir S. The Process of Making an Item of Palace Furniture in the 1830-1850s According to Russian State Historical Archives Data

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Title The Process of Making an Item of Palace Furniture in the 1830-1850s According to Russian State Historical Archives Data
Author email vtorbik@mail.ru
About author Torbik, Vladimir Sergeevich — Ph. D., head of Department of restoration. Saint Petersburg State University. Universitetskaia nab., 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
In the section Russian Art of the 19th Century DOI10.18688/aa188-3-30
Year 2018 Volume 8 Pages 324–332
Type of article RAR Index UDK 7.026 Index BBK 85.126.1
Abstract

Based on the analysis of archive documents, the article examines factors of influence on creation of a subject of applied art, i.e. a piece of furniture. It explores documents shedding light on the role and influence of a customer on nature of a future work of art. They reveal hard work at every stage and difficulties in relations of an architect and contractors of projects. Short deadlines required attraction of a large number of contractors, and naturally not all of them met high demands of an architect. The documents evince how difficult it was for an architect to achieve the desirable result. Alongside with this, the article discloses such a stage of creation of a subject of art as acceptance of its model. Unlike in case with architectural models, in case with furniture it was one subject from a batch which served as a model — a sample, after adjustment or acceptance of which the project was finally affirmed.
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Reference Torbik, Vladimir S. The Process of Making an Item of Palace Furniture in the 1830-1850s According to Russian State Historical Archives Data. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 8. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2018, pp. 324–332. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa188-3-30
Publication Article language russian
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