Images of Byzantine and Old Russian Ornaments that were collected and drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prince Gagarin was a Major General in the Russian army but he was an artist, too. Stieglitz. 1887. Taken from a post on cmhnir.ortox.ru. All beautiful.





Russian religious ornament, drawing that is part of a collection that belonged to and was presumably drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia that was assembled in the 1880s. via http://cmhnir.ortox.ru/muzeon/view/id/1185749
Detail taken from a 12th century Greek manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, drawing that is part of a collection that belonged to and was presumably drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia that was assembled in the 1880s.. via http://cmhnir.ortox.ru/muzeon/view/id/1185749
Detail taken from a 12th century Greek manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, drawing that is part of a collection that belonged to and was presumably drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia that was assembled in the 1880s.. via http://cmhnir.ortox.ru/muzeon/view/id/1185749
Detail taken from a 12th century manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. drawing that is part of a collection that belonged to and was presumably drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia that was assembled in the 1880s.. via http://cmhnir.ortox.ru/muzeon/view/id/1185749

Detail of the facade of the Church of Saint Mark in Venice. drawing that is part of a collection that belonged to and was presumably drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia that was assembled in the 1880s.. via http://cmhnir.ortox.ru/muzeon/view/id/1185749

Detail of Saint Mark’s in Venice. drawing that is part of a collection that belonged to and was presumably drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia that was assembled in the 1880s.. via http://cmhnir.ortox.ru/muzeon/view/id/1185749
Marble ornaments from the Church of Saint Mark in Venice, Italy. Drawing that is part of a collection that belonged to and was presumably drawn by Prince Gagarin of Saint Petersburg, Russia that was assembled in the 1880s. via http://cmhnir.ortox.ru/muzeon/view/id/1185749.

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