CALENDAR: ALL EVENTS - October 2007
29.06.2007 - 21.10.2007Icon painters of Tsar Michael Romanov
The exhibition, placed in the in the One-Pillar Chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, is dedicated to the Russian school of icon painting of the XVIIth century. It presents obscure, newly restored outstanding icons and items of arts and crafts from the Kremlin Museums collection. We will see magnificent artworks, executed by the renowned icon painters of the Michael Fyodorovich Romanov’s workshop, i.e. Istoma Savin and his sons, Nikita Davidov, Marc Matveev and others.
17.10.2007 - 13.01.2008Porcelain ware and ceramics of the Imperial Porcelain Factory from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum
Outstanding porcelain artworks by makers, painters and sculptures of the Imperial Porcelain Factory are represented in the exhibition hall of the Assumption Belfry. Lots of them are exhibited in Moscow for the first time. The collection includes items related to the Imperial family of the Romanovs and reveals the preferences of the rulers and their fancy for art. The most noteworthy articles are snuff-boxes as customary attributes of high life in the middle of the XVIIIth century and component items of the personal porcelain service of Empress Elizabeth, executed in Baroque style.