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Abulfas Garayev; Chingiz Farzaliyev

 
9789952802450: The Azerbaijan State museum

Synopsis

Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Decorative and Applied Art of Azerbaijan The Azerbaijan State Museum of Art is a storehouse of the works of art beginning from the ancient period up to the present time. All kinds of art are completely represented here. The art of Azerbaijan, West-Europe, Russia, the East is displayed in the halls of our museum. The museum was founded in 1920 and at present it is situated in two old buildings, which were built at the end of the XIX centure. The exposition of our museum is constructed in historico-chronological succession and by countries. The collection of the art of West-Europe: Italy, Flandry, Holland, Germany and France is remarkable in so far as includes works by all the betterknown painters of the XVI-XIX cc. Bassano L., Solimena F., Brouwer A., Claesz P., Sustermans J., Kaulbach F.A., Dupre J., Dagnan-Bouveret and etc. In the section of Russian art there are the works of such outstanding artists of the XVIII-XIX cc. as Borovikovsky V.L., Argunov N.I., Lampi The Elder, Tropinin V.A., Shishkin I.I., Vereshchagin P.P., Aivazovsky I.K., Korovin K.A., Serov V.A., Roerich N.K. The collection of Azerbaijan art covers a vast span of time. The earliest exhibits: archaeological vessels date from the 6-4 millenia B.C., which were discoved on the territory of the different regions of Azerbaijan such as Khanlar, Mingechaur and others, ceramics of the Middle Ages, bronze and copper wares of the XI-XIX cc., unique ancient carpet and carpet wares of Guba, Baku, Shirvan, Tabriz, Garabakh, Kazakh centres of carpet-making: jewelry, executing in the different techniques such as filigree, chazing, ware-drawing, granulation, enamel work. The chief centres of jewellery-making art in Azerbaijan were located in Baku, Gyanja, Shamakhy, Shusha, Sheki, Tabriz.

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