"Legacy of Emperors" Automatic translate

A new exhibition project "The Legacy of Emperors" will open in the Perm Art Gallery.

The exhibition presents unique and rare samples of artistic porcelain and glass from the mid-18th - early 20th centuries, commissioned by the Russian Imperial Court at the Imperial factories in St. Petersburg, and demonstrates their importance on a scale of Russia, revealing the role of talented, and often nameless, creators of priceless monuments national culture and art.

The exposition includes more than 150 works of decorative and applied art, sculpture and graphics from the collection of the Perm gallery. Many of them entered the museum collection in the 1920s and 1930s from the State Museum Fund as property of the royal palaces and residences, as well as of the Russian aristocracy, requisitioned after the 1917 revolution.

The main part of the exhibits consists of products of the Imperial Porcelain Factory: palace vases, clocks and table decorations, small and easel plastics, decorative panels, as well as individual samples of dishes that were once part of the palace services.

The exhibition draws the attention of the modern viewer to the highest achievements of Russian decorative and applied art, and in addition, touches on the problem of the disappearance of one of the oldest traditional branches of domestic production - artistic glassmaking. Therefore, the subject line of porcelain is complemented by no less unique works of art glass, made by order of the Vysochaishy Dvor at the state, later Imperial, glass factory in St. Petersburg.

Among the exhibits of the exhibition you can see engravings of the 18th-19th centuries: portrait images of representatives of the Russian Imperial House starting with Elizaveta Petrovna and ending with Nicholas II, as well as architectural landscapes of St. Petersburg and country residences in Pavlovsk, Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, for which the works presented in the exhibition were created from porcelain and glass.

In 2019, the Russian and world cultural community celebrated the 275th anniversary of the founding of the Imperial Porcelain Factory in Russia (1744-2019).

In October 2019, a long-term work on a scientific catalog of the collection of Imperial porcelain from the collection of the Perm Art Gallery was completed on the introduction into scientific circulation of unique works that previously belonged to the Russian imperial dynasty. Today, these monuments are little known to specialists and are not at all known to a wide audience, although, of course, they represent priceless artistic and historical heritage. The exhibition project of the Perm Art Gallery is timed to these two events.

One of the objectives of the exhibition is to update the legacy of Russian emperors, to show their role in the creation of the court manufactory - the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and, of course, to emphasize the historical significance of the famous enterprise for the development of its own Russian porcelain production in the 18th-19th centuries, its influence on the state of porcelain production 275 years later.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Perm Territory.

For viewers, the exhibition will run from September 11, 2020 to November 22, 2020. Audience 0+.