The Moscow Kremlin Museums collections come to London

1. The Moscow Kremlin Museums present
Byzantine Antiquities
Works of Art from the Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries
in the Collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums
Catalogue

2. Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin:
cathedrals and royal palaces

3. The Annunciation Cathedral of the 16th century and palaces of the 16th and 19th century

4. The Oratory of the Kremlin Terem Palace. Photograph of the 1870-s.

5. The legendary
“Cross of Philotheus” of the
Russian tsars.
Byzantine staurotheke,
the 11th-12th century

6. Icons of the state
treasury:
St Demetrius
of Thessalonica.
Steatite icon,
the 13th-14th century
Pantocrator enthroned.
Sapphire cameo,
15th century

7. Royal pectoral icons and crosses
from the Armoury Chamber.
Photo of the 19th century

8. Detail of the scene of the Dormition
on the Kremlin cameo and fresco of the Sopochani Monastery (1265-1270)

9. • Christ holding the soul of the Virgin Mary
• detail of the Kremlin cameo, fresco of Sopochani (1265-70)
• and mosaics of the Chora Monastery (1315-21)

10. Agate cameo
10th century

11. Michael the Archangel. Jasper cameo of the 13th century
The Nativity. Glass paste cameo of the 13th century

12. Ceremonial Helmet
Belonged to a Russian grand prince
and served both as an armour and as an insignia.
Comes from the Great Treasury of the tsars.
Moscow, Greek and Russian makers,
second half of the 14th century
Seal of Alexius I
of Trebizond, 13th century

13. The Annunciation Cathedral of the 16th century, home church of grand princes and tsars

14. The iconostasis of the Annunciation Cathedral
The Deisis Row of the 14th century

17. The Eleousa of Vladimir
Moscow, Greek painter
late 14th – early 15th century

18. Mother of God Hodegetria
Icon and cover
Constantinople (?),
first third of the 14th century

19. Star on the headdress
Western Europe,
2nd half of the 15th c.,
Pendilia
Balkany 15th c.

20. Descent into Hell. Reliquary
Constantinople,
late 12th century.
Belonged to Tsar Ivan the Terrible

21. Cameo
11th century
The gold setting
with the dynastic
double-headed eagle
of the Palaeologoi
13th-14th century

22. St John the Baptist
Steatite icon with gilt silver frame with the monogram of Thomas Palaeologos, Despot of the Morea
14th-15th century

23. Christ Pantocrator
Constantinople, 11th –12th centuries
Mount: Rus’, 13th – first third of the 14th century

25. Stone cup
Jasper with agate inclusions
Byzantium (?) before 1329; chalice: Novgorod, 1329

26. Carved icon
Front: The Presentation,
the Entry into Jerusalem,
the Crucifixion,
the Descent into Hell,
second half of the 12th – early 13th
century
Back: The Seven Sleepers
of Ephesus, 13th –14th century
Frame: Moscow,
second half of the 16th century

27. The Dormition Cathedral
is the main church of Russia housing many ancient icons

28. Icon of Christ Pantocrator
Fragments of the silver cover. Greek makers.
First third of the 14thcentury

29. The Praises of
the Mother of
God with the
Acathist
Moscow, Greek
master,
third quarter of the
14th century.
Detail

30. The Crucifixion
Mistra (?)
first third of the 15th c.

31. Gold cover of the Dormition Cathedral’s Gospels
Moscow, Greek craftsmen
1410–30. Detail

32. Cover of the Icon
of the Virgin
of Vladimir
Moscow, Greek and
Russian craftsmen,
1410–1431
Details

33. Processional cross
From the Dormition Cathedral, 1570
The Archangel Michael.
Ivory relief, first third of the 15th century

34. Reliquary of St Demetrius of Thessalonica from the Cathedral of the Dormition
The military saints Nestor and Lupus. Constantinople, 1059–1067

35. Gold icon with 12th century
Byzantine sapphire cameo
depicting the Virgin
and Child enthroned
Belonged to Tsar Ivan,
brother of Peter the Great

36. Byzantine enamel
medallion
on the Ryazan’ “Armills” from
the hoard found in 1822

37. Staurotheke (detail)
Crucifixion with attendant figures; SS Constantine and Helena
End of the 10th – early 11th century

38. The Transfiguration
Cameo on two-banded onyx:
Constantinople,
last third of the 13th century
Mount:
Russia, 19th century

39. Cup and spoon
The Procession of Dionysus; Heracles
Eastern Mediterranean (?),
late 4th – early 5th century

40. Banqueting cup
Centaur musician
Asia Minor (?),
12th–13th century

41. The Major Sakkos of Metropolitan Photius.
Moscow (?), Greek craftsmen, 1414–1417