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Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum On 9 January, 2002, according to the Art of Islam Program the exhibition Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum was opened at the National Culture Center of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, introducing the classical art of Islamic peoples. The exhibition was prepared by the State Hermitage Museum jointly with the Kazan Center of National Culture. It includes 145 artifacts from the Hermitage which possesses one of the world's largest collections of art of peoples of the Islamic East. Objects represented in the exhibit were created in various parts of the Moslem world, from Spain to Northern India, from the 7th to the 19th centuries. Most of them are works of toreutics, but also ceramics, works of jewelers of Mogul India, paintings, carpets and fabrics. The same day the exhibition Ancient and Modern Islamic Art from Museums
of the Republic of Tatarstan was opened alongside the one from the
Hermitage. It includes 145 works prepared by the Kazan Center of National
Culture jointly with the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of
Tatarstan and the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. |
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