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Treasury of the World. Jewelled
Art of India in the Age of the Mughals
7 August 2009, in the Concert Hall of the Winter Palace (Room N 190)
the exhibition, organized by the Collection of Al-Sabah, Dar Al-Asar Al-Islamia,
the National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature of the State of Kuwait
and the National Museum of Kuwait together with the State Hermitage,
was opened. The exhibition takes place in the Hermitage under the patronage
of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait.
This grand event in the cultural life of St Petersburg shall become an important
milestone on the way of further cooperation of both countries.
The exhibition includes more than four hundred pieces of jewellery of the Mughals
epoch coming from the private collection of Sheikh Nasser
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and his spouse Sheikha Hussah Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah.
This remarkable collection is a result of profound infatuation of the Al-Sabah
couple for the Islamic art: in 1983 it was given for preservation
to the National Museum of Kuwait.
Thirteen sections of the Treasury of the World. Jewelled Art of India
in the Age of the Mughals exhibition do not only give an idea about those
amazing and at times unique monuments of jewellery but also get acquainted
with different ways of stone and metal bracing and working.
Various illustrated material posted not only on the walls of the room
but also in the display-cases introduces the presented exhibits into real
context of its time, supplementing and expanding immediate impressions
of the viewers.
The exhibition curator is Olga Deshpande, the head of the Far
East Sector of the State Hermitage.
The exhibition is accompanied by academic illustrated catalogue
and booklet (the author of the text is Olga Deshpande).
Booklet of the exhibition |
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Catalogue of the exhibition |
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Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage
He Shaikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Minister of Amiri
Divan Affairs of Kuwait
Shaikha Hussah Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
Andrei Busygin, Deputy Culture Minister of the Russian Federation
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