20.05.2011 - 01.08.2011

The Medici Treasury. From collections of the Silver Museum and other museums of Florence

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.