Vasiliev presentation of the exhibition ANTIQUE EMBROIDERY

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On October 30, the V.A. Tropinin Museum and the Alexander Vasiliev Foundation open the exhibition "Antique Embroidery". The exhibition will feature embroidered paintings, fireplace screens, fans, purses, bags, and inkwells. Figurative and ornamental embroidery, pearl, bead and glass bead embroidery - items from the 19th century from the collection of the V.A. Tropinin Museum and the Alexander Vasiliev Foundation. The oldest form of applied art - embroidery - originated in the East. Embroidered items are present in the form of images in ancient bas-reliefs, frescoes, sculptures that have come down to us from the times of ancient civilizations such as China, India, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. If we talk about a time closer to us, then, of course, Byzantium was considered the birthplace of secular and elegant embroidery, which was common in Russia in the 18th - 19th centuries. But starting from the era of Peter the Great, the noble society in our country became interested in Western European embroidery designs, invented in France and Germany. The art of embroidery itself can be divided into several sections by technique. The first is silk embroidery, often in satin stitch, the second is wool embroidery, namely, worsted thread in the cross or half-cross technique - what is commonly called "Berlin work". The third section is bead embroidery, which was especially typical in the 18th and 19th centuries. "The founder of our Museum, the Soviet collector Felix Vishnevsky, collected not only painting, but also beadwork, embroidery, and antique furniture. We are very pleased to present to the public exquisite works of decorative and applied art from the collections of the Tropinin Museum, and for us it is a special joy to collaborate in this project with one of the leading collectors of our time, fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev," emphasized Olga Zhuravleva, director of the V.A. Tropinin Museum. A special place in the exhibition space is occupied by embroidered paintings. The work "Jacob Learns of the Death of His Beloved Son Joseph" repeats the lithographs from the painting by the French artist Charles Antoine Coypel on the biblical subject that were popular in the second half of the 19th century. Such lithographs were often published in illustrated Bibles. Fashion historian and collector Alexander Vasiliev will present a number of unique exhibits, including an embroidered portrait of Alexander I. "As a collector, I began collecting embroideries very early. Even at a fairly young age, my attention was drawn to embroidered fireplace screens, pillows, paintings, wallets, purses, ballrooms, cup holders, handbags, sonnets and blotters ... Today, embroidered items make up a large part of my collection, which itself has about half a million items of clothing and accessories. " - Alexander Vasiliev, collector, art historian. The exhibition will be open to visitors from October 31 to January 17, 2021.

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