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Animal and Man. Ancient Art of Eurasia
On 16 April, 2002, an exhibition of ancient Eurasian art was opened in
rooms 28-32 of the Winter Palace. It shows about 370 exhibits from the
State Hermitage Museum, Institute of Material Culture History of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and other collections. They were found in Eastern
Europe, Ural, Transuralian lands and Siberia and span the period from
upper paleolithic to early middle ages. Most of the exhibits are showed
for the first time (Sapogovsky hoard), some of them have not even been
published.
The exhibition objective is to show the complicated development of the
ancient man's idea of the world and his place in it. The most recurrent
images in ancient peoples' art from the paleolithic time were animal and
man. Each epoch had its own artistic language. The exhibition shows the
development of the images of animal and man in household and cult objects
(weapons, figurine-surmounted warders, etc.) over almost 30 thousand years.
The exhibition is organized by the Hermitage with the participation of
the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (Kunstkammer), Institute of Material Culture History
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State History Museum and Archeology
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), D.G. Burylin State
Museum of Local History and State University (Ivanovo), Sverdlovsk Region
Museum of Local History, Ural State University and Institute of History
and Archeology (Yekaterinburg), Municipal Museum of Mining in the Middle
Ural and State Pedagogical Institute (Nizhny Tagil), Karelian State Museum
of Local History and Institute of Language, Literature and History of
the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodsk),
Vologda State Museum of History and Arts, Vladimir and Suzdal Museum of
History and Arts (Vladimir), Sergiyev Posad State Museum of History and
Arts, Tver State Museum, Pskov State Museum of History and Arts and Estonian
Society of Primitive Art Research (Tartu).
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Georgy V. Vilinbakhov, Deputy Director Research of
the State Hermitage Museum opening the exhibition
At the exhibition
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