Exhibitions in the Moscow Kremlin
The exhibition, placed in the Front hall of the Armoury Chamber, is a collaborative cultural project, organized by the Moscow Kremlin museums with the assistance of the Foundation de la Haute Horlogerie - the world's pre-eminent leader in the promotion of the values and culture of Fine Watchmaking in the main international markets. The exposition comprises over 60 meticulously selected timepieces from the largest European collections and museums, which serve as a brilliant example of the technical and artistic creativity of European watchmakers from the XVIth to the XXth century.
Presented together within the display they are to reveal the centuries-old history of the art of watchmaking, to "illustrate the milestones in the adventure of time, and the unique expertise of watchmakers who found, in Russia, a venue for their art".*
* the Foundation de la Haute Horlogerie website
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For the first time in Russia the exposition, placed in the exhibition halls of the Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, presents the oeuvre of the distinguished French fashion designer Paul Poiret. At the beginning of the XXth century he revolutionized the art of dressmaking and invented a new concept of woman's clothes. Through his unsurpassed contributions to the twentieth-century fashion and successful career as a fashion designer and a founder of several companies Poiret was considered to be a “King of Fashion”. The exhibition covers the most remarkable artworks by Poiret, which are to reveal the process of the development of the Art Deco style within the art of dressmaking, jewellery making, photography, graphic arts, production of accessories, perfumes and etc. The project was to mark the 100th Anniversary of the triumphal visit of Poiret to Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, where his famous collections and models had been demonstrated a century ago. The project has been supported by the well-known world’s museums, such as the Musée Galliera, also known as the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, the Musee International de perfumerie de Grass, the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and the State Hermitage Museum.
General partner of the project is Rosbank.
With the assistance of Gazpromexport, LUKOIL Oil Company, ConocoPhillips Russia Inc.
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The exhibition in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace is held as one of the cultural projects within the cross-cultural collaborative programme which marks the Year of Italian Language and Culture in Russia. Over 100 unique masterpieces of the XVth-XVIIIth centuries are on display: exhibits from the famous Medici Treasury of the Silver Museum in the Palazzo Pitti, the Uffizi Gallery and from collections of the other Florentine museums. The project reveals social activities for culture and taste for art of the Medici collectors, beginning with Lorenzo the Magnificent to Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, who has bequeathed the Medici’s remarkable art collection to the Tuscan state. The visitors are to observe outstanding samples of glyptic art, stone carving, Florentine mosaics, precious pieces of ivory, bronze and jewellery. The display is completed with personal belongings and portraits of the representatives of all generations of the noble Medici dynasty.
General partner of the project is Vnesheconombank
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The exposition, placed in the Moscow Kremlin Assumption Belfry incorporates outstanding artworks made from semi-precious stones. The exhibition project covers not only masterpieces by remarkable Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé, but also precious items executed by his renowned contemporaries - Alexey K. Denisov-Uralsky, Avenir Sumin and Ivan Britsyn, who frequently supplied the Court with lapidary articles and minerals. Pieces of workmanship from the Imperial Lapidary Factories of Yekateringburg, Peterhof, Kolyvan, the firm of Verfel and the Ural workshops are also on display. Exhibits, worthy of special attention, have been crafted by stonecutters of the famous Faberge firm, who mastered to perfection Russian techniques of working industrial, coloured stones.
Among the 400 items presented, visitors can observe precious articles from the Moscow Kremlin museums’ funds, exhibits of the leading museums of Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Irkutsk, Yekateringburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, as well as masterpieces from the Cartier collection and other private collections, many of which are displayed in Moscow for the first time.
General partner of the project is Gasprombank
With the assistance of Statoil
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The exhibition comprising masterpieces of the art of Presepio - a three dimensional representation of the birth of Jesus Christ – is timed to the New year celebrations and marks the year 2011 which has been declared the Year of Italian Language and Culture in Russia. Presepe is a tableau of Christ's Nativity, composed of mobile hand-made figurines by craftsmen of the House of Bourbon. The exposition presents the most well-known Nativity scenes, including the Annunciation to the shepherds, Tavern scene, Mauritanian carnival, Greens market, Textile market. All the sculptured compositions serve as detailed vignettes which portray contemporary life in the XVIIIth century Naples. Each of the exposed scenes, being both a remarkable work of art and an ethnographical relic, reveals the beauty and splendour of the Neapolitan Presepio.
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The exhibition in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace presents foreign decorations belonged to Russian sovereigns from the Moscow Kremlin funds. Decorating the Russian monarchs with foreign orders can be regarded as an act of diplomatic recognition of the Russian State as one of the leading powerful countries of Europe, the Middle East and Far East, Asia and America. The exposition, comprising almost 300 items by renowned foreign goldsmiths, reveals the history and beauty of these artworks. It includes various insignia (stars, crosses and chains of different orders) as well as articles, relating to the main topic of the exhibition, i.e. portraits of the Emperors, their Order costumes, award documentation, statutes of the Orders and photomaterial.
The project is supported by the State Archive of the Russian Federation, State Archives of Ancient Documents, the State Historical Museum, State Hermitage Museum and other Russian museums.
General partner of the project is Gasprombank
Financial support was provided by E.ON Ruhrgas
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For the first time in Russia outstanding artworks by French painter René Lalique are on display. Within the history of European jeweller's art his name is closely related to the formation and development of the delicate Art Nouveau style at the turn of the XIXth century. The exposition in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin Museums comprises about 170 artworks of the very artist - unique pieces of jewellery and drawings of the late XIXth - early XXth century, as well as glass works in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. The project is supported by museums from all over the world and known private collections, which possess masterpieces of the artist. Among them are the State Hermitage museum, State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan, Danish Museum of Art & Design (Kunstindustrimuseet), Copenhagen, Musée Lambinet in Versailles, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, Collection of LALIQUE S.A. in Paris.
General partner of the project is Vnesheconombank.
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The exposition, opened in the Assumption Belfry of the Moscow Kremlin, comprises outstanding Turkish artworks from the funds of the famous Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, the city called "a cultural capital of Europe of 2010". The exhibition explores variety of techniques and forms of the Turkish decorative and applied arts as well as delicacy of craftsmanship of the makers at the Sultans' court. The display includes remarkable pieces of weaponry, jewellery, interior utensils, executed on the order of the Turkish Sultans or granted to them as precious gifts. Items of particular attention are refined artworks of Islamic calligraphy, which excelled during the Ottoman era. Most part of the presented exhibits is inscribed with the titles of their imperial owners and reveals some interesting facts from their history of life.
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The exhibition, placed in the Front Hall of the Armoury Chamber, was organized on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Its exposition explores artistic and historical value of various soviet decorations, instituted during the war, which became the symbols of a great victory gained by the Russian people over the aggressor. The exhibition presents the collection of Orders and medals from the Kremlin museums' funds, the most noteworthy of which are the highest military decorations – medals of the Order of Victory and of the Order of Glory of three classes.
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