Exhibitions: The Andrei Rublev Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art hosts an exposition dedicated to Russian tiles of the XVI-XIX centuries

July 3, 2017 in the Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art named will be open an exhibition dedicated to Russian tiles of the XVI-XIX centuries. In the exposition - 44 exhibits, which give a holistic and vivid idea of ​​the development of valued art in Russia. Some of them have recently entered the museum collection, some belong to private collectors.

The production of tiles ("valued business") has become widespread in Russian art since the XVI century. Initially, these were small ceramic tiles designed to decorate the facades of buildings and did not have coloring. In the first half of the XVII century, there appeared "glazed" tiles covered with green glaze. Distribution of multicolor tiles in Russia is associated with the activities of Patriarch Nikon, who invited Belarusian masters in 1654 to decorate the buildings that he built, primarily the New Jerusalem Monastery. The usual subjects for the tiles of the XVII century - images of horsemen, battle scenes, birds, garlands of fruits and flowers, decorative cartouches and other Western European ornamental motifs.

Since the Petrine era, tiles have been used primarily for facing furnaces. The relief was replaced by smooth tiles, decorated in Dutch manner with entertaining subjects and executed in one or several colors. Since the XVII century, along with Moscow, regional tile production centers, such as Yaroslavl and Veliky Ustyug, have been known, where both façade and stove tiles were manufactured.

The exhibition will run from July 4 to September 12, 2017.