The paper museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, c. 1725-1760 : introduction and interpretation / edited by Renée E. Kistemaker ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kistemaker, Renée.

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.

Kunstkamera (Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ naukʺ)

Muzeĭ antropologii i ėtnografii im. Petra Velikogo (Kunstkamera)

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)

Amsterdams Historisch Museum.

Series:

History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands ; v. 6.

History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands ; v. 6

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Kunstkamera (Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ naukʺ)--Catalogs.

Kunstkamera (Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ naukʺ).

Muzeĭ antropologii i ėtnografii im. Petra Velikogo (Kunstkamera)--Catalogs.

Muzeĭ antropologii i ėtnografii im. Petra Velikogo (Kunstkamera).

Kunstkamera (Imperatorskai︠a︡ akademīi︠a︡ naukʺ)--History--18th century.

Muzeĭ antropologii i ėtnografii im. Petra Velikogo (Kunstkamera)--History--18th century.

Watercolor painting, Russian--Catalogs.

Watercolor painting, Russian.

Anthropological museums and collections--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Anthropological museums and collections.

Ethnological museums and collections--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Ethnological museums and collections.

History.

Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xi, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005.

Language Note:

Text on DVD-ROM in English and Russian.

System Details:

System requirements for accompanying DVD-ROM: Minimum Pentium 233 MHz (recommended: Pentium 500 MHz or greater) or Macintosh PowerPC 604e 266 MHz (recommended: PowerPC G4 667 MHz or greater); Microsoft Windows 98, 98SE, 2000, NT 4.0, ME, XP, Mac OS 9 and higher; recommended screen resolution 800 x 600; minimum 128 MB RAM (recommended: 256 MB).

text file

Summary:

Accompanying DVD-ROM contains ... "the complete detailed catalogue in searchable format and full-colour images of the drawings." -- p. [4] of cover.

Contents:

The Paper Museum as a genre. The corpus of drawings in St Petersburg within a European perspective / Debora J. Meijers 19

The art chambers of the Academy of Sciences of St Petersburg and the making of the drawings of the Kunstkamera objects / Elena S. Stetskevich 55

The Paper Museum: its aims and uses / Natalya P. Kopaneva 77

The fortunes of the Kunstkamera drawings in the nineteenth and twentieth century / Galina A. Printseva 105

Anatomy / Anna B. Radzyun 113

Zoology / Roald L. Potapov 127

Botany / Andrey K. Sytin 151

Instruments and scientific apparatuses / Galina A. Printseva 167

Lathing, ivory carving and other rarities / Evgenya I. Gavrilova 181

Precious and rare objects / Galina A. Printseva 197

Antiquities, rarities and precious objects / Oleg Ya. Neverov 215

Siberian and Volga artefacts / Larissa R. Pavlinskaya 231

Chinese and oriental objects / Maria L. Menshikova 247

Ancient coins / Oleg Ya. Neverov 269

Medals / Evgenya S. Shuchukina 281

Appendix 1 Artists who have contributed to the Paper Museum 309

Appendix 2 Description of the titles of the boxes of the Paper Museum. Musei Imperialis Petropolitani Vol I-II, Vol. II, pars prima, St Petersburg 1741, pp. 176-178 312

Appendix 3 Description of the nineteen still existing boxes of the Paper Museum 316

Appendix 4 The catalogue section on DVD: an explanation / Natalya P. Kopaneva, Bert van de Roemer 318.

Notes:

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition, "Peter the Great and Holland : cultural and scientific relations between Russia and the Netherlands at the time of Peter the Great," held at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and the Amsterdam Historical Museum, 1996-1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-[336]) and index.

ISBN:

9069844265

9069844249

OCLC:

150259325