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Masterpieces from collections of the Vologda and
Kirillo-Belozersky museums - reserves will be displayed at the
exhibition « Sacred Russia: Russian art from ancient times to Peter's I
epoch » in the Louvre (Paris, France).
128 samples of Russian history and culture from ten museums and
libraries of the northwest of Russia will be exhibited. In the Louvre
Palace one will see 14 icons from the tier of Festivals and the Deesis
tier of the Assumption Cathedral iconostasis of 1497 and also the shroud
" Presentation of the Virgin to Cyril Belozersky in the Moskow Simonov
monastery " of 1620-35 brought from Kirillo-Belozersky
historical-architectural and art museum - reserve.
Two items from the collection of the Vologda museum-reserve are by the
right considered to be masterpieces among other objects of Old Russian
art: the icon « Saint Dimitry Prilutsky with the scenes from his life »
(Dionysius, about 1503) and the silhouette high relief « St.George with
a Serpent » (second half of the XVI century). The icon will be shown in
France for the first time, while the sculpture has already been
exhibited in Paris at the exhibition of 1974.
Exhibition « Sacred Russia: Russian art from ancient times to Peter's I
epoch » is held in the framework of the Year of Russia in France and
Year of France in Russia and it will open for visitors on March, 2 - May,
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