Captured by the Line booklet traces the main motifs of art pieces which faultlessly characterize their style as Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau was not just a term used by art critics. Originating in architecture it was later employed in design, decorative art, painting and literature to become a style of life. Its long sinuous line embraced the whole world and has been holding it in its capture of taste for more than one hundred years. Thanks to the avid interest of the Russian monarchs in Art Nouveau the Hermitage boasts its first-class specimens.

In Brevi Series.
Text in Russian.
St Petersburg, 2005.
32 pages; paperback.
6 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.
(16.5 x 23.5 cm).

ISBN 5-93572-170-8