title: Prince Dmitry Golitsyn’s Program Speech ‘On Drawing’ (1769): The Origin of the Text and Its Historical and Aesthetic Significance
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metadata.value: Sechin, Alexander G.
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metadata.value: Abdullina, Darina A.
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metadata.value: 2024-09-17T20:55:53Z
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metadata.value: 2024-09-17T20:55:53Z
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metadata.value: Sechin, Alexander, and Darina Abdullina. “Prince Dmitry Golitsyn’s Program Speech ‘On Drawing’ (1769): The Origin of the Text and Its Historical and Aesthetic Significance”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 14, no. 2 (2024): 282–308. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2024.204 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2024.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47537
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metadata.value: The article is dedicated to the speech “On Drawing” by the honorary member of the Imperial
  Academy of Arts, Prince Dmitry Alekseevich Golitsyn (1734–1803), which he delivered in
  July 1769 at a solemn public meeting of the Academy. Its text was discovered in the Russian
  State Historical Archive in the middle of the 20th century and was long considered his original
  work, written first in French and then translated into Russian. The main outcome of the
  research conducted by the authors of this article was the discovery of the original source of
  this text by Golitsyn, namely the beginning of the dialogue of the same title from the French
  edition of the book by the English traveler and writer Daniel Webb “Recherches sur les beautés
  de la peinture” (1765). Since the Englishman’s book was the result of his tour to Rome, where
  he has met the scholar J. J. Winckelmann and the painter A. R. Mengs, an amateur art historian,
  Webb, retelling in his essay the thoughts of German theorists about imitation of ancient artists,
  unwittingly became a transmission link in the arrival of neoclassical ideas to Russia. Denis
  Diderot got acquainted with the French translation of Webb’s book before Golitsyn, wrote an
  essay about it for F. M. Grimm’s “La Correspondance littéraire” and, apparently, recommended
  it to the prince. However, Golitsyn did not copy word-for-word Webb’s text, but adapted it
  for his purpose — to compose a program speech to the high assembly of Russia’s main educational
  institution in the field of fine arts, which is gaining strength. Unlike Wincklemann
  and Webb, who appealed exclusively to the past, the Russian aristocrat, following Diderot, saw
  the future progress of modern art not in blind imitation of ancient masters, but in the revival
  of the emotional and intellectual power of ancient art through the efforts of free artists. The
  political conditions of the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine II predetermined the
  laudatory tone of his speech in the spirit of the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV.
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metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Scientific Foundation (RSF) according to the research
  project no. 22-28-01007 “Manuscripts of Prince D. A. Golitsyn (1734–1803) Devoted to the Issues of Fine
  Art. Full Transcript, Scientific Commentary and Preparation for Publication”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dmitry Alekseevich Golitsyn
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metadata.value: Daniel Webb
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metadata.value: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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metadata.value: Anton Raphael Mengs
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metadata.value: Denis Diderot
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metadata.value: the Imperial Academy of Arts
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metadata.value: ancient art
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neoclassicism
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metadata.value: drawing
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Prince Dmitry Golitsyn’s Program Speech ‘On Drawing’ (1769): The Origin of the Text and Its Historical and Aesthetic Significance
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