Today, the Assumption belfry and Odnostolpnoy Chamber Moscow Kremlin Patriarch Palace opens exhibition «Free imperial city of Augsburg. Centuries of greatness ». This exhibition, bringing together about two hundred outstanding works from the collection of Maximilian, represents the first time a Russian audience of European art treasures of the legendary jeweler capital XVII century - the oldest German city of Augsburg.

During the XVI - XVIII centuries Augsburg set the tone in the architectural style, it was established one of the largest in Europe, the Academy of Fine Arts, opened a unique porcelain and tin mill, and in all areas of decorative art appeared the phenomenon of « Augsburg Baroque ». The city flourished craft shop, which highlights the zlatokuznechny turning Augsburg emissaries to Mecca for all vladetelnyh families worldwide. Here is ordered and purchased products, which only «appeared from the hands of the jeweler», came to the treasury, and today are the adornment of a museum or private collections.

worked in Augsburg and the great era of Mannerist sculptor Adriaen de Vries. Moscow plans to exhibit 11 sculptures and reliefs from the famous fountain of Hercules, which is situated on one of the main squares of cities, and their show should be a real discovery for the audience in Moscow: Russian collections are almost no works of this master.

Exposition «Free imperial city of Augsburg. Centuries of greatness »makes it possible to simultaneously admire the works of artists and schedules, a few samples of jewelry, glass, clock, the porcelain and faience products Augsburg school, unique works of small-scale plastics and a gallery of the masterpieces of Renaissance art medalernogo preserved in single copies.

Exhibition «Free imperial city of Augsburg. Centuries of greatness »open from June 19 to September 20, 2009.

Source: a press release of Moscow Kremlin Museums