CRAFTSMANSHIP AND FASHION IN VENICE IN THE 13th - 18th CENTURIES

27 june 2005—31 july 2005

The Russian Museum shows the renewed exposition that was exhibited in Correr Museum in Venice and then had a success in the largest museums of the world. The formatting of the exhibition represents fair trades on San Marco square in Venice of the 13th — 18th centuries. More than three hundred exhibits of the exhibition tell about the fashion evolution in the Venice Republic in the 13th — 18th centuries. There are cloths, suits, shoes, instruments and equipment, lace and precious stones, hats and glasses. The exhibition illustrates more than fifty crafts and allows to learn about the history of every shop flloor where highly skilled masters used to work. There are major shop floors — shoe manufacturers, tailors, silk, wool, cotton and flax manufacturers; different haberdashers: glovers, hose manufacturers, button-makers, lace-makers, dyers, tanners and leather workers. Objects in the exposition are accompanied by historic documents and pictures and give a broad view on the history of Italian fashion.

Exhibitions

Leonid Sherwood (1871–1954)

13 april—3 july 2023

Initiated to coincide with 152 years since the artist’s birth, this exhibition follows extensive research undertaken to elaborate on certain aspects of Leonid Sherwood’s artistic biography and reconstruct the history and destinies of many of his works.

Nikolai Suetin. Ilya Chashnik

2 march—19 june 2023

This exhibition spotlights the work of Malevich’s closest pupils and associates Ilya Chashnik (1902–1929) and Nikolai Suetin (1897–1954), and follows on the heels of the first two exhibitions of works from the Leporskaya archive, which featured previously unknown drawings by Kazimir Malevich and works by Leporskaya herself. It represents the final stage in the processing and study of the Russian Museum’s Leporskaya Archive.

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