Larissa Salmina-Haskell (née Salmina; 1931-2024)[1] was a Russian art historian, curator, and translator.[2][3][4] She was a noted historian of Venetian art and "a great scholar".[2][5]
Larissa Salmina-Haskell | |
|---|---|
| Born | Larissa Salmina 1931 |
| Died | 2024 (aged 92–93) |
| Alma mater | Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Art historian, curator, translator |
| Spouse | Francis Haskell (married 1965) |
Life
editLarissa Salmina was born in Russia in 1931, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family.[6] She graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts in 1954, three years later becoming curator of Italian drawings at the Hermitage Museum.[7][3]
Salmina married art historian Francis Haskell in Leningrad in 1965, having met him in 1962 while working as commissar at the at the Venice Biennale.[8][3] She moved to England to live with him.[7] The were described as being "inseparable" for the remainder of their Francis Haskell's life.[3][9] The Times wrote that the couple "seemed to be familiar with every museum and monument in Europe and America, and their house in Oxford became the heart of an international network of personal and professional friendships".[10]
In 1970, Salmina-Haskell published Russian Paintings and Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, which was republished in 1989.[7]
She assisted Richard Buckle with a biography of Serge Diaghilev, lending translation support and art history context.[11] She also helped with works on other Russian figures such as Anatole Demidoff, and works including Isaiah Berlin's The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism.[12][13]
Select bibliography
edit- G.B Tiepolo: Life and Work (Leningrad, 1963)
- 'Two Drawings by Francesco Vanni' in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 109, No. 775 (October 1967)
- Russian Paintings and Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1970)
- 'Venetian Drawings at the Heim Gallery' in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 114, No. 828 (March 1972)
- Russian Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Oxford Slavonic Papers, 1972)
- 'St. Petersburg in Oxford' in Oxford Art Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1 March 1978)
- 'A Scandinavian Printmaker in Russia' in Print Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 1986)
- Panoramic Views of St. Petersburg from 1716-1835 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993)
References
edit- ^ "Larissa Haskell". The British Museum.
- ^ a b "Larisa Salmina Haskell". www.clarkart.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ a b c d "Haskell, Francis James Herbert (1928–2000), art historian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/73649. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ Korshunova, Miliza; Haskell, Larissa (1974). "William Hastie in Russia". Architectural History. 17: 14–56. doi:10.2307/1568342. ISSN 0066-622X.
- ^ Griener, Pascal (2001). "Francis James Herbert Haskell (April 7, 1928-January 18, 2000)". Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. 64 (2): 299–303. ISSN 0044-2992.
- ^ "Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent - Iain Pears - eBook". Harper Collins New Zealand. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ a b c Salmina-Haskell, Larissa (1989). Russian paintings and drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. Ashmolean Museum (Rev., expanded, and illustrated ed.). Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. ISBN 978-0-907849-95-7.
- ^ "Francis Haskell Papers (1816-1999) | Archive | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ White, Christopher (2000-01-21). "Francis Haskell". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- ^ "Professor Francis Haskell". The Times. 21 January 2000. p. 27.
- ^ Buckle, Richard (1984). Diaghilev. Internet Archive. New York : Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-70664-6.
- ^ Anatole Demidoff Prince of Dan Donato, (1812-70). Internet Archive. London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection. 1994. ISBN 978-0-900785-40-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Berlin, Isaiah; Hardy, Henry (2004). The Soviet mind: Russian culture under communism. Washington (D.C.): Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-0904-6.