DOI issue:
No. 153 (December, 1905)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20713#0286
Studio-Talk
. TAPESTRIES
EXECUTED AT THE HELSINGFORS SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART
little attention to the material furnished by dusty
archives, such as old plans, prints and similar
documents. His streets, clusters of churches,
groups of dwellings, city gateways and fortress
walls have probably never existed in the identical
combinations we see in his sketches, but are the
fruit of the artist’s imagination. Still, no one who
is well acquainted with the architecture of ancient
Russia will deny that they may have existed some-
where or other in this shape, nor is there any doubt
that these drawings express the peculiar features of
the Russian cities in the period mentioned than
many of those reconstructions which conform more
closely to historic records. With due regard to the
high aitistic value of VasnetzofPs achievements in
this direction, with their charming colour harmonies
FURNITURE EXECUTED BY PUPILS OF TAPESTRY BY FROKEN JALAVA
HELSINGFORS SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART CUSHIONS BY FROKEN KEINONEN
268
. TAPESTRIES
EXECUTED AT THE HELSINGFORS SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART
little attention to the material furnished by dusty
archives, such as old plans, prints and similar
documents. His streets, clusters of churches,
groups of dwellings, city gateways and fortress
walls have probably never existed in the identical
combinations we see in his sketches, but are the
fruit of the artist’s imagination. Still, no one who
is well acquainted with the architecture of ancient
Russia will deny that they may have existed some-
where or other in this shape, nor is there any doubt
that these drawings express the peculiar features of
the Russian cities in the period mentioned than
many of those reconstructions which conform more
closely to historic records. With due regard to the
high aitistic value of VasnetzofPs achievements in
this direction, with their charming colour harmonies
FURNITURE EXECUTED BY PUPILS OF TAPESTRY BY FROKEN JALAVA
HELSINGFORS SCHOOL OF APPLIED ART CUSHIONS BY FROKEN KEINONEN
268