Today’s article is another in the series on art exhibitions I wished I could have attended. The exhibition, Gifts to the Tsars 1500 – 1700 – Treasures from the Kremlin, was organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the State Historical-Cultural Museum Preserve, Moscow Kremlin. This exhibition took place in Indianapolis in 2001 and 2002.
A point of interest about this exhibition is that it was as much as a history and cultural lesson about a far away country as it was a presentation of great art. The show included gifts of the sixteenth and centuries, European decorative arts, and ambassador gifts which included masterpieces of silver.
This exhibition not on presented treasures in the form of objects from a very unique museum as well as rare documents. Jewelry, gemstones, silver and gold vessels, plates, cups and other items were included in this exhibition. Many of the items in the exhibit were from other countries but some were items created in the Kremlin workshops.
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