Dictionary of Art Historians

Alpatov, Mikhail Vladimirovich

Full Name
Alpatov, Mikhail Vladimirovich
Gender
male
Date Born
c. 1902-1903
Date Died
1986
Place Born
Moscow, Russia
Place Died
Moscow, Russia
Home Country
Russia
Subject Area
eighteenth century (dates CE)
Medieval (European)
nineteenth century (dates CE)
Renaissance
Russian (culture or style)
Overview

Historian of Russian art, particularly the traditional Russian art forms of medieval, renaissance and 18th and 19th centuries. Responsible for general histories of art reflecting the ideals of the Soviet period and several histories of Russian art. Professor at the Theatre and Architecture institutes (Moscow University) and the Academy of Art. Associated with Oskar Wulff, Viktor Mikitich Lazarev and N. I Brunov.

Selected Bibliography
Le problème de la renaissance dans l'ancienne peinture russe. Firenze: Sansoni, 1967; Istoriografiia vseobshchei istorii; sbornik statei. Moscow: Nauka, 1966 ; Russian impact on art. New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.
Sources
The Dictionary of Art 1: 684-5; [Danilova, I. Y. ed.] Vospominaniia : tvorcheskaia sud'ba, semeinaia khronika, gody ucheniia, goroda i strany, liudi iskusstva . Moscow: "Iskusstvo", 1994.