Department of Art History
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Call for Papers. The Department of Art History Invites You to Take Part in the Conference ''Esotericism and Russian literature''
On the 30th and 31st of March 2022, the international conference ''Esotericism and Russian literature'' will take place. It will explore a complex variety of relations between Russian literature and esotericism.

The European University and the State Hermitage Museum create the International School of Arts and Cultural Heritage
The European University at St. Petersburg and the State Hermitage Museum create the International School of Arts and Cultural Heritage. The project will bring together a world-class museum, an advanced center of scholarship and education, and an innovative industry.
10.11.2021

Professor Catherine Phillips is one of the organizers of the round table discussion dedicated to the art of the XVIII century
In the eighteenth century, Russia emerged as a truly European power. Yet despite the presence of Russians in Europe and Europeans in Russia, the vast Russian Empire continued to be perceived as a quasi-oriental land. As a result, those artists and works of art that moved from West to East were – and sometimes still are — all too often seen as vanishing into a distant realm. This panel will highlight current research on the Russian art world and its engagement with Western Europe in the eighteenth century. Short presentations will examine the importance of the French tradition to St. Petersburg’s Imperial Academy of Arts, Russian artists’ travel to the Netherlands and Paris, Russian patronage of Venetian art, connections between Russian and British art as reflected in portraits by Rokotov and Gainsborough, and Russian collecting of classical antiquities.