Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (bahasa Rusia:Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Бенуа́, juga biasa di sebut Alexander Benoiscode: ru is deprecated ; 3 Mei 1870–9 Februari 1960),[1][2] adalah seorang seniman Rusia, kritikus seni, sejarawan, kolektor dan anggota pendiri Mir iskusstva (Dunia Seni), sebuah gerakan seni dan majalah.[1][3] Sebagai desainer untuk Ballets Russes di bawah Sergei Diaghilev, Benois menggunakan apa yang dianggap sebagai pengaruh mani pada balet dan desain panggung modern.[3]
Referensi
12Salmina-Haskell, Larissa. Russian Paintings and Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. pp. 15, 23-24. Published by Ashmolean Museum, 1989
↑Various sources, e.g. Encyclopædia Britannica, give his birth date as 21 April (Julian)/4 May (Gregorian). This cannot be correct; it implies a 13-day gap between the calendars; however, in 1870 the gap was 12 days.
12Owen, Bobbi. Costume Design on Broadway: Designers and Their Credits, 1915-1985. p. 19 Greenwood Press: New York, 1987
Bibliografi
Katerina Clark, Petersburg: Crucible of the Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, MA, 1995).
John E. Bowlt, The Silver Age: Russian Art of the Early Twentieth Century and the 'World of Art' Group (Newtonville, MA, 1982).
Janet Kennedy, The Mir Iskusstva Group and Russian Art, 1898-1912 (New York, 1978).
Gregory Stroud, Retrospective Revolution: A History of Time and Memory in Urban Russia, 1903-1923 (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006).
This Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois collection contains a skechbook with costume and set designs for Giselle by Adolphe Adam (1924) held by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, The Ohio State University Libraries.