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Palekh

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Palekh

Village in the Ivanovo oblast (region) of the western Russian Federation, 65 km/40 mi southeast of Ivanovo; population (1990) 5,800. Palekh has long been renowned as the centre of icon painting in Russia. Miniatures are also painted on lacquered papier-mâché articles, such as boxes, cigar cases, and powder compacts.

Palekh painters were responsible for restoring the frescoes in the cathedrals of the Moscow Kremlin.
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Palekh is the handicraft of miniature painting with tempera on varnished objects made of papier-mache.
`Palekh, From Icons to Souvenir Boxes to Icons' by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
14) And as Jenks has noted, painters of Palekh (Russian lacquered boxes decorated with intricate depictions of traditional Russian and Russian Orthodox scenes) endured a period of ridicule and persecution as 'god-daubers', before both they and their artwork were rehabilitated, culminating in the exhibition of Palekh in the State Russian Museum, and the ordering of Palekh desk-sets for prominent Soviet figures including Maksim Gorky.
Hewn from stone: (re)presenting Soviet material cultures and ... by Moran, Dominique / Journal of Social History
Petersburg, Russian Palekh lacquer art, Gzhel porcelain, and portraits of Russian Emperors.
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