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On May 1st, the "Renaissance" cinema house hosted a media event titled "Architectural Epigraphy of Uzbekistan: Light from the Depths of Centuries". During…

In Varypayeva’s collection there are three carpets, two plain-woven and one with pile. Both plain-woven carpets are composite, i.e. made from pre-woven…

Architect, art and architecture historian, I. A. Bartenev, corresponding member of the Academy of Arts (1975), Honoured Artist of the RSFSR, Doctor of…

There is another treasure in Todaiji Temple in Nara City (Japan). This is a silver dish with gold-plated images of a deer and flower-leaf pattern around…

The State Hermitage in Saint Petersburg preserves the largest collection of artifacts of cultural, historical and artistic value in the world. Two famous…

Today, the archaeological collection of the State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitskiy has more than nine thousand items (9,134…

Trousers are ishton, chalvar, cholvir, and cholbir were also made of homespun cotton calico, their cut – two separate trousers were beveled downward and…

Jewelry was mainly made of silver, small beads, carnelian, coral and pearls. Most of the adornments of the women of the valley were imported (from Bukhara),…

The photo collection housed in the State Museum-Preserve "Ichan-Kala" includes over three thousand photographs and around a thousand glass negatives. Its…

The influence of Alisher Navoi in the Ottoman Empire reached its peak during his lifetime. Ottoman sultans sent him gifts, and Ottoman poets wrote naziras…

The painting that is now in the Louvre Museum and was donated by Georges Marteau was originally faced, probably in an album (muraqqa‘) in an Iranian collection,…

Thirty-five meters to the east of the remains of the entrance portal of Hazrat-I Imam architectural complex, the main monument of the Dar us-Sadat architectural…

The Saxonian State Collections of Ethnography (SES) were formed in 2004 from the three ethnological museums in Saxony – Leipzig, Dresden and Herrnhut. All…

Peculiar kinds of memorial and architectural monuments of the era of Amir Temur and his descendants are found in the “Dar ut-tilovat” complex in the city…

The earliest dated items from Central Asia were donated by Natalya Petrovna (surname unknown) before 1863 and by František Kratky. However, they only ended…

The Uzbek collection of artifacts forms a part of the Central Asian collection of the Náprstek Museum. Almost half of the items consist of works of applied…

Written references related to the history of Uzbekistan can be found in the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague. This primarily concerns two…

The uniqueness of the Turkestan avantgarde was the fact that it got acquired the experience and achievements of the Russian avantgarde (and the Russian…

The richness and diversity of traditional Uzbek costumes was memorialised in the journals of European merchants visiting oasis cities in the 19th century…

The al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan was founded in 1943 on the basis of the Oriental Department…

The al-Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan was founded in 1943 on the basis of the Oriental Department…

The art of making silk fabric flourished in the cities-oasesis, located on the routes of the Great Silk Road. First of all, there should be mentioned…

Since the middle 1530s Bukhara became the residence of the supreme ruler of the Shibanids. Herati calligraphy masters worked at the court of ‘Abd al-Aziz…

One of the popular images in abr fabrics in the Reisbord collection is the tree motif. Brought to Central Asia from Persia, the tall and narrow evergreen…