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Indepth Arts News:
"The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and
Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian
Steppes"
2000-10-12 until 2001-02-04
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY,
USA
This exhibition displays spectacular finds of gold and
silver recently excavated at Filippovka in southern
Russia—works that have never been seen in the
United States—along with related Scythian,
Sarmatian, and Siberian splendors from the State
Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Created around
the late 5th to 4th century B.C. by nomads living in
the southern Ural Mountain region of Russia, the
distinctive works from Filippovka include deerlike
creatures of wood overlaid with sheets of gold and
silver, along with other striking objects of precious
metals.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, the State Hermitage
Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, and
the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Center
for Ethnological Studies, Ufa Research Center of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Bashkortostan, Russian
Federation.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council
on the Arts and the Humanities. The exhibition
catalogue is made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for
Publications.
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