(4 Mar 2010) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Paris, France, 3 March 2010
1. Wide of exterior of the the Louvre museum, with its pyramid
2. Wide of Saint Boris and Saint Gleb icon from Novgorod, (mid-fourteenth century)
3. Tilt up on the icon
4. Close of the icon
5. Wide of the exhibition
6. Mid of the Sakkos (robe) of the Rostov''s Metropolitan
7. Close of the embroidery on robe of Rostov''s Metropolitan
8. Wide of the exhibition
9. Mid of Jannic Durand, exhibition curator, walking in the museum
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jannic Durand, Exhibition curator, Department of Decorative Arts, The Louvre
"It is the first time that more than 24, 26 museums of Russia are gathering together all the items to try to reconstruct the past of Russian art since the Conversion at the end of the tenth century until to the great movement which changes the rule, the reigning time of Peter the Great."
11. Mid of the two handled chalice from Novgorod (eleventh century)
12. Close of a detail of the chalice
13. Mid of the Golden gate of the Nativity cathedral of the Virgin in Souzdal (early thirteenth century)
14. Close of a detail of the gate (Lazarus'' resurrection scene)
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Jannic Durand, Exhibition curator, Department of Decorative Arts, The Louvre
"The re-enactment of Rublev''s works is extremely difficult. The only thing we can say is that there is painting before Rublev, and painting after him. There is something new in the painting after Rublev. There are new dimensions, simultaneous softness and strength, that make Rublev''s role essential, even if the complete re-enactment of his career and his life''s work is extremely hard."
16. Mid of the Virgin of Vladimir, attributed to Andrei Rublev
17. Close of the icon
18. Tilt up on the Saint John the Baptist icon (around 1408), attributed to Andrei Roublev
19. Close of the icon
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Jannic Durand, Exhibition curator, Department of Decorative Arts, The Louvre
"The essential component is obviously Byzantine art, and everything that comes from this Byzantine civilisation, because Russia was converted (to Christianity) in 988 by Byzantine (monks). The model for the Church, for the clerical organisation, for religious buildings, liturgical instruments, the dogmatic range, all these elements come from the Byzantine Empire."
21. Mid of the Charter of the synod of Constantinople confirming the creation of Moscow''s patriarchy (May, 1590)
22. Close of the Charter
23. Wide of the Processional cross from Novgorod (twelfth-fourteenth century)
24. Close of the cross
25. Mid of golden medallion necklaces from Riazan (twelfth-thirteenth century)
26. Close of the medallion
27. Mid of a map of Moscovia from the Theatrum urbis terrarum, by Abraham Ortelius from Anvers (1574)
28. Mid of the Oklad (a metal cover protecting an icon) of Andrei Roublev Trinity made from gold, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, among other precious metals and stones (around 1600)
29. Tilt up of the Oklad
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Jannic Durand, Exhibition curator, Department of Decorative Arts, The Louvre
"It''s not Byzantine art, it''s not Western art, it''s not oriental art, it''s Russian art. This is the ''heartly point" (the heart of the matter), I think, of the exhibition"
31. Mid of Helmet with the name of Ivan the Terrible (probably Moscow, 1533-1547)
32. Wide of the model of Smolny''s Cathedral in St Petersburg (1750-1756)
33. Close of the model
34. Zoom out of the model
LEADIN
A major exhibition of Russian religious art has opened in Paris.
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