Exhibitions
The Year of Grace. Religious Holidays Series Exhibition. Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple
Kolomenskoe
2 December 2022 – 12 February 2023
Palace of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, Small Exhibition Hall, Entrance 5, bldg 69, 39 Prospekt Andropova
The exhibition opening 2 December at the Palace of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich will focus on the history and iconography of the Virgin Mary Presentation holiday as well as key events from the Virgin’s earthly life.
Among over 40 Russian church art objects from Kolomenskoe museum-reserve collection, dating from late XV to early XX centuries, you will see icons, cooper cast reliefs, church books and engravings, and religious sculpture.
The display presents a number of images of Christ and the Virgin Mary illustrating the holidays of the Liturgical Year, starting from the Annunciation and the Nativity of Christ to Crucifixion and Resurrection. This annual circle is expanded with most important Virgin Mary images such as Our Lady of the Sign, of Kazan, of Tikhvin, of the Unburnt Bush, of the Sovereign, Joy of All Who Sorrow and some others.
Anthologion. Kiev Pechersk Lavra Printing House. 1745. Originates from St. Nicholas Monastery of Ugresha. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Ustyug Icon of Annunciation. Late XVI - early XVII century. Wood, gesso; tempera. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple. Engraving on wood. From the Anthologion issued by Kiev Pechersk Lavra Printing House. 1745. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple. Last quarter of the XVII century. Wood, gesso; tempera. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Holiday chants written down in the Old Russian ‘hook’ notation. Guslitsy, 1830s. From an Old Believers’ praying house in Pechatniki village (now a Moscow quarter). Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Simeon Matveev. Crucifixion and Passions of Christ. Wood, gesso; tempera. 1729. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Anthologion. Kiev Pechersk Lavra Printing House. 1745. Originates from St. Nicholas Monastery of Ugresha. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Ustyug Icon of Annunciation. Late XVI - early XVII century. Wood, gesso; tempera. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple. Engraving on wood. From the Anthologion issued by Kiev Pechersk Lavra Printing House. 1745. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple. Last quarter of the XVII century. Wood, gesso; tempera. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Holiday chants written down in the Old Russian ‘hook’ notation. Guslitsy, 1830s. From an Old Believers’ praying house in Pechatniki village (now a Moscow quarter). Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Simeon Matveev. Crucifixion and Passions of Christ. Wood, gesso; tempera. 1729. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Anthologion. Kiev Pechersk Lavra Printing House. 1745. Originates from St. Nicholas Monastery of Ugresha. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Ustyug Icon of Annunciation. Late XVI - early XVII century. Wood, gesso; tempera. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple. Engraving on wood. From the Anthologion issued by Kiev Pechersk Lavra Printing House. 1745. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple. Last quarter of the XVII century. Wood, gesso; tempera. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Holiday chants written down in the Old Russian ‘hook’ notation. Guslitsy, 1830s. From an Old Believers’ praying house in Pechatniki village (now a Moscow quarter). Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
Simeon Matveev. Crucifixion and Passions of Christ. Wood, gesso; tempera. 1729. Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve collection.
The exhibition will be the second one in the series dedicated to religious holidays. The series´ title, “Year of Grace’, alludes to a novel trilogy by the late XIX – early XX century Russian writer Ivan Shmelyov. The novel’s title, in its turn, goes back to Verse 2, Chapter 61 of the biblical Book of Isaiah. The novel is autobiographic and illustrates the common Russian citizen’s life as seen through the liturgical year of holidays. The first exhibition of the series, which also had an allusion to Shmelyov’s novel, focused on the Nativity of Christ.