“It was a great mystery: who he is, who made it.”
Curator Wolfram Koeppe on an early-eighteenth-century sculpture of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov by an unknown artist.
Curls
Wolfram Koeppe
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Contributors
Wolfram Koeppe
Marina Kellen French Senior Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Marina Kellen French Senior Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Photography by Mark Morosse
Rights and Permissions:
No 2: The Old Castle (II vechio castello) and No 4: Bydlo (A Polish Ox-cart)
from Pictures from an Exhibition by Musorgsky played by Nikolai Demidenko
courtesy of Hyperion Records Ltd, London (www.hyperion-records.co.uk)
Art Mentioned
Unknown
probably shortly before 1704
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