Chinoiserie in the Radziwill Castles of the 18th Century. Luxury in Oriental Style

The monograph by Doctor of Art History Olga Dmitrievna Bazhenova is devoted to the problem of interpreting the artistic traditions of the East in the culture of Belarus in the 18th century, namely the embodiment of the ideas of the chinoiserie style (Chinese style) in the decorative programs of the Radziwill castles and masterpieces created at the princely manufactories of the 18th century. The central place in the book is occupied by the study of the album of drawn projects of furniture, weapons, ceramics of the court artist Fischer. As the author convincingly shows, the artist's graphic projects and the objects created according to them demonstrate the correspondence of the search for chinoiserie on the territory of modern Belarus to the current trends of this exotic style in European art of the 18th century. The publication is supplemented with valuable analytical information, based, among other things, on archival data. The richly illustrated edition is prepared in Russian and English, which allows it to be relevant not only in the Russian-speaking environment.