Alpatov, Mikhail Vladimirovich

Date born:  1902 or 1903

Place Born:  Moscow

Date died:  1986

Place died:  Moscow

Historian of Russian art, particulary the traditional Russian art forms of medieval, renaissance and 18th and 19th centures.  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 (q.v.), Viktor Lazarev (q.v.) and N. I Brunov.

Home Country:  Russia

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.

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.