Tomorrow night in VMDPNI will take place the presentation of the album "Russian glass XVIII — beginning of the XX century and the opening of the exhibition "Russian glass. New arrivals"

VMDPNI
12 December 2014 - 18 January 2015
Moscow, street of delegate, 3

12 December at 16:00 will take place the presentation of the album "Russian glass. XVIII - beginning of XX century from the collection of the all-Russian Museum of decorative-applied and folk art. The publication includes the best works of Russian art glass from the Museum's collection. The collection of glass VMDPNI has more than 1 500 monuments created by the Imperial Glass factory, and the leading private enterprises in Russia played a huge role in the development of national art glass. The album also includes exhibits, appeared in the collection in recent years, first-class product, which allow for a wider describe the main stages of development of Russian glass industry, developed over nearly three centuries in the European context, but retained the national artistic and technological osobennosti@

In the day of presentation to the edition set special Zena@

on the same day will be the exhibition "Russian glass. New arrivals", which will present the best works of Russian art glass XVIII - early XX century, submitted to the Foundation of the Museum in recent years. The exhibition will present a wide variety of forms: from simple vessels "simple matter" and the Baroque-lush engraved cups of the EIGHTEENTH century to the refined glass of classicism; from sparkling cut crystal of the Russian Empire to the "historical" color into the second half of the NINETEENTH century. Ends with a display of rare exhibit "propaganda" art glass 1920-ies, reflecting the first steps of creating a new Soviet art young worker-peasant Respubliki@

the Collection of Russian art glass all-Russian Museum of decorative-applied and folk art has more than 1500 monuments and chronologically covers the period from the fourteenth to the early twentieth century. On the basis of the Museum concept, for over thirty years, the meeting focused and carefully replenished works exclusively Russian proishozhdenie@

the Exhibition is open until January 18, 2015 goda@

Source: press-release of the all-Russian Museum of decorative-applied and folk arts