The Style of Zar
19 September 2009 - January 10, 2010 Arts & Fashion between Italy and Russia from the fourteenth to eighteenth century
A Prato, a major European capital
textile production, a large exhibition tells the fascinating link between art, textiles and fashion in Russia and Italy from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.
dresses, paintings, textiles, drawings and valuables
make the exhibition a fascinating collection of more than hundred and thirty works from the largest Russian museums - the State Hermitage Museum, State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin Museum in Moscow -
and important Italian institutions - Galleria degli Uffizi, Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice and the Palazzo Madama in Turin. Through
the sumptuous embroidery in gold and silver tissue created by artists and craft shops and Italian masterpieces by painters such as Titian, Paris Bordone, Tintoretto and Cigoli, winds, through the charming rooms of the Textile Museum in Prato, l ' interweaving of cultural, artistic and commercial links between the courts of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and the Czar of Russia since the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century. A bond that continues today.
INFORMATION
at the Textile Museum
Via Santa Chiara 24, Prato
Information and reservations
www.lostiledellozar.it
Cali Center 800 714 049 from abroad +39 0492010067 info@lostiledellozar.it
Hours: Daily
1o.oo-19.oo (Ticket office closes at 18.00)
On reservation only
2oo9 Closed December 25, January 1, 2010
Tickets
Full € 9.00 Reduced
€ 7.00 for visitors-more than 65 years, between 18 and 25 years
Free
children under the age of 6 years
disabled
