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British Museum of Victoria and Alberta
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About it reports The Art Newspaper.
The renovated three Gilbert Gallery will present the project devoted to the study of mass Nazi and Soviet robbery of cultural values. Including two pairs of silver gilded gates from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
The gates were made in about 1784 by Alexei Ishchenko at the request of the Russian Empress Catherine II. They were abducted in the 1920s after the Russian Revolution, writes The Times. The Soviet authorities confiscated them for sale abroad.
Then, in 1935, they were purchased by Media Magnat William Randolf Gerst from Jewish art dealers S. and J. Goldshmidt.
The Gate of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which will be exhibited at the British MuseumAlso in the new space will show 200 gold boxes and micromosaics made of tiny pieces of colored glass. Among them are the Tabackers with diamonds who created to order Friedrich II Prussian.
For the first time, two large -scale types of conflict and the Roman Micromosaic Forum created by the Italian artist of the nineteenth century will be presented.
In addition to the exhibition of the gates of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, in September 2026, the British Museum will host a conference dedicated to the issue of modern Ukrainian heritage through the prism of material culture.
The gate will be discussed at a conference that will take place in September next year at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where the past and modern Ukrainian heritage will be considered through the prism of material culture.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world’s largest applied art, decorative and design museum. It was founded in 1852 and named in honor of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Collection of the institution 2.8 million of cultural objects in Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.
Arthur and Rosalinda Gilberts were entrepreneurs in the field of fashion in the military London. In 1949, they moved to Los Angeles, where Arthur became a successful developer. The spouse’s own collection began to be harvested in the 1960s, when they lived in Beverly-Gils. In 1996, their works were given to the British nation, and in 2008-to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Currently, the collection has about 1,200 items.
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British Museum of Victoria and Alberta
www.artfund.org
About it reports The Art Newspaper.
The renovated three Gilbert Gallery will present the project devoted to the study of mass Nazi and Soviet robbery of cultural values. Including two pairs of silver gilded gates from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
The gates were made in about 1784 by Alexei Ishchenko at the request of the Russian Empress Catherine II. They were abducted in the 1920s after the Russian Revolution, writes The Times. The Soviet authorities confiscated them for sale abroad.
Then, in 1935, they were purchased by Media Magnat William Randolf Gerst from Jewish art dealers S. and J. Goldshmidt.
The Gate of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which will be exhibited at the British MuseumAlso in the new space will show 200 gold boxes and micromosaics made of tiny pieces of colored glass. Among them are the Tabackers with diamonds who created to order Friedrich II Prussian.
For the first time, two large -scale types of conflict and the Roman Micromosaic Forum created by the Italian artist of the nineteenth century will be presented.
In addition to the exhibition of the gates of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, in September 2026, the British Museum will host a conference dedicated to the issue of modern Ukrainian heritage through the prism of material culture.
The gate will be discussed at a conference that will take place in September next year at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where the past and modern Ukrainian heritage will be considered through the prism of material culture.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world’s largest applied art, decorative and design museum. It was founded in 1852 and named in honor of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Collection of the institution 2.8 million of cultural objects in Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.
Arthur and Rosalinda Gilberts were entrepreneurs in the field of fashion in the military London. In 1949, they moved to Los Angeles, where Arthur became a successful developer. The spouse’s own collection began to be harvested in the 1960s, when they lived in Beverly-Gils. In 1996, their works were given to the British nation, and in 2008-to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Currently, the collection has about 1,200 items.