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Glass that has been admired. Masterpieces of the 16th - 21st centuries from the collection of the State Hermitage
Exhibition May 1 − October 24, 2021
The State Hermitage Museum presents an exhibition. “Glass that was admired. Masterpieces of the 16th - 21st centuries from the collection of the State Hermitage ".
The exposition acquaints the viewer with the best works of Western European and Russian artistic glass of the 16th - early 21st centuries from the funds of the Department of Western European Applied Arts and the Department of the History of Russian Culture of the State Hermitage. It includes more than 190 exhibits - elegant tableware with filigree, massive feet decorated with skillful engraving, glasses and goblets, vases, items with glass inserts, mosaic paintings, glass-bead artistic compositions illustrating various stages of the evolution of glassmaking in Europe and Russia.
Glass is a man-made material, surprising in its richness of decorative possibilities. Its plasticity, transparency and the ability to create a rich color palette have been admiring connoisseurs of everything elegant for about five thousand years. Fragile vessels demonstrate the amazing skill of the glassblowers, engravers and painters who created them. The works are silent witnesses not only of technological advances, but can tell the interested viewer about the changing aesthetic tastes and etiquette of their time.
Prepared based on materials from the official website of the museum The State Hermitage Museum.
The exposition acquaints the viewer with the best works of Western European and Russian artistic glass of the 16th - early 21st centuries from the funds of the Department of Western European Applied Arts and the Department of the History of Russian Culture of the State Hermitage. It includes more than 190 exhibits - elegant tableware with filigree, massive feet decorated with skillful engraving, glasses and goblets, vases, items with glass inserts, mosaic paintings, glass-bead artistic compositions illustrating various stages of the evolution of glassmaking in Europe and Russia.
Glass is a man-made material, surprising in its richness of decorative possibilities. Its plasticity, transparency and the ability to create a rich color palette have been admiring connoisseurs of everything elegant for about five thousand years. Fragile vessels demonstrate the amazing skill of the glassblowers, engravers and painters who created them. The works are silent witnesses not only of technological advances, but can tell the interested viewer about the changing aesthetic tastes and etiquette of their time.
Prepared based on materials from the official website of the museum The State Hermitage Museum.
