Byzantine antiquities in the Kremlin Museum
ARTinvestment.RU   06 июня 2013

In the Moscow Kremlin Museum presents "The Byzantine antiquity." The exhibition presents iconic things - icons, crosses, Panagia, holy pictures, the Gospel in a gold frame, as well as gold coins and a steel helmet

Moscow Kremlin
June 7 - July 25, 2013
Armory

in the Moscow Kremlin Museum presents "The Byzantine antiquity." The exhibition in the Front Hall of the Armory shows a small part of the unique monuments included in the fundamental catalog of "Byzantine antiquities in the museums of the Kremlin." Some of the monuments on display for the first time. The exhibition presents iconic things - icons, crosses, Panagia, holy pictures, the Gospel in a gold frame, as well as gold coins and a steel helmet. Some items come from hoards found on the territory of our country, and are also witnesses of centuries-old ties of Byzantium and Russia. Among the exhibits are artistically highlighted recently acquired by the museum early Byzantine silver ladle end of IV - V century and the beginning of the banquet bowl XII - XIII centuries.

Kremlin collection of Byzantine Antiquities developed over the centuries, the most intense - in the era of the addition of the Russian state and the establishment of the patriarchate. The basis of the meeting are the shrines and grand royal treasury, vestments Russian hierarchs, the icons of the Kremlin cathedrals and royal terems. These highly revered objects fall to Moscow directly from the Byzantine capital, or of the various annexed to Moscow Russian land, and after the fall of the Byzantine Empire in the XVI - XVII centuries., Were brought to the clergy of the Christian East Moscow sovereigns as a legacy of the Orthodox kingdom.

The Byzantine Art in demand in today's world, the interest in him in the last decade is rapidly increasing. This is due not only to the aesthetic perfection, but also with the spirituality of its monuments. A special place among the world's collections of Byzantine art is a collection of icons of the Moscow Kremlin, because it consists of works of high artistic merit and rare iconography.

Byzantine monuments of the Moscow Kremlin is closely linked to national history, some of the items mentioned in the testaments of the great princes and kings, or in the inventories of the royal treasury. They were household shrines of Russian rulers. Some precious objects were made in the XIV - XV centuries. in Moscow, together Greek and Russian artists. Some Byzantine works were included in the later Russian and over time have become monuments of Russian history and statehood.

Sources : kreml.ru