In the maze of time. French clock XVIII - XIX centuries
ARTinvestment.RU   20 ноября 2012

Today in History Museum opens exhibition in the exhibition which includes about 100 hours from the collection of the Historical Museum and private collections

SHM, November 20, 2012 - February 11, 2013
Moscow, Red Square, 1

Today at the State Historical Museum presents "In the labyrinth of time. French clock XVIII - XIX centuries. " The exhibition presents the pendulum clock, created from 1770 to 1900 - a bright event in decorative art in France. They connect art watchmakers, bronze, furniture, enamel, jewelry - masters who are the world's legends, legislators have created unparalleled style and role models in the rest of Western Europe and Russia, XIX - XX centuries. The exhibition includes about 100 hours from the collection of the Historical Museum and private collections. They demonstrate the diversity and originality of artistic compositions, materials and manufacturing techniques.

clock will be presented with the compositions on the theme of love and time clock with figures of historical figures and literary characters, oversized watches 1870 's "Day and Night" by model Michelangelo clock with figures personifying the seasons, the clock with the muse Urania Astronomy. In the early nineteenth century, with the spread of the cult of the book, to create a watch as a bookcase, a clock with figures reading boys and girls. Original models of the clock "Allegory of scientists" were the sculptures of Simon Boizeau created in biscuit in 1776 at the Sèvres porcelain manufactory. Related Arts and the Arts is dedicated to design French mantel clock XVIII - early XIX century.

whole group watches made in the form of architectural structures and decorated architectural details - the clock in the form of the porticoes, the rotunda, columns in style Louis XVI, which reproduced the shape and details of ancient architecture and the clock in the form of portals of Gothic cathedrals of white marble, gilt and patinated bronze, watch as the obelisks, stelae and pyramid structures of ancient Rome and Egypt, showing the winning end of the eighteenth century the French Army - the beginning of the nineteenth century. Of particular interest are the obelisk clock started on the model of the monument at Yorktown, established in honor of Independence in 1783.

peculiar part of the exhibition represent the hours of the mechanistic and Industrial Design 1840-90s - Clock-skeleton showing the kinematics of the movement, the clock in the form of steam hammer, clock locomotive clock airship, clock-car and other moving elements from the designs. All watches are delivered on the course.

iconographic sources, the activities of watchmakers and watch companies are multimedia. The exhibition shows the design features of mechanisms exhibited hours. In the design of the exhibition space used by ordinary lighting solutions, mirrored surfaces, projection and audio effects - the sound of a metronome, the fight and the ticking clock.

The organization of sessions demonstrating industrial clock with animation effects, with the participation of professional watchmaker. The exhibition was created children's play area.

Source : Press Release SHM