Empress Maria Feodorovna' Favorite Residences in Russia and in Denmark
Автор:Корнева Галина, Чебоксарова Татьяна Год: 2010 Издание:Лики России Страниц: 264 ISBN: 9785874173319 "Thirty-two of the unparalleled fifty-two Easter eggs created by Carl Faberge were gifts for Empress Maria Feodorovna. Even his royal clients didn't know what he had created for them until the day before Easter. Francis Barenbaum, the chief artist of the company at that time, later remembered: "The drawings of the eggs were not shown to the Emperor for approval. Faberge was given the opportunity to chose his subject and work on it completely independently". When the Court jeweler created his next masterpiece he drew on important events from Maria Feodorovna's life, and in doing so he presented her destiny in an unusually artistic way. In essence, the eggs present the story of her life in both Russia and Denmark. The "surprise" hidden in the Faberge egg in 1890, which depicts Maria Feodorovna's favorite residences, could be thought of as a guide to this book. In tracing the progression of paintings on this delicate screen one, can examine the places that were especially dear to...
