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/ies: Russia
Subject Area(s): eighteenth century (dates CE), Medieval (European), nineteenth century (dates CE), Renaissance, and 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.