"European Dimension" - works of old European masters in Kiev

A huge number of spectators came to the opening of the exhibition "European Dimension", which began its work in the Kiev National Museum of Art. The exposition of the exhibition was made up of the best works of old European masters, who provided nine Ukrainian museums from their collections for this exhibition. Many of these paintings are shown to the general public for the first time.

Specialists in art say that such a number of Western European masterpieces are collected in the framework of one project for the first time. In preparation for the exhibition, many canvases were restored, found new frames, and some works, previously anonymous, found the authors. For example, the authorship of the canvas with the image of a shepherd playing with a mouse and a cat was established. The author was an artist from Italy Tommaso Salini. The elegant lady in the room turned out to be written by the Danish Karel Slabbert.

One of the paintings, the authorship of which was previously unknown, after careful research received not only the name of the author, but also the name of the customer. The previously unknown boy was the son of the famous hero Austerlitz Repnin-Volkonsky, and its author was the famous French painter Jean-Baptiste Reno, whose paintings occupy a worthy place in the Louvre.

In preparation for the exhibition, the funds of all the museums of Ukraine were carefully studied, History ordered in such a way that the private collections lovingly collected by collectors in the pre-revolutionary years were partially lost, and what was left of them was distributed to various museums of the country. Thanks to the efforts of museum workers, art lovers have gained the opportunity to see these masterpieces of painting until October 11 at the Kiev Museum of Art. The future plans of the organizers of the exhibition show its exposure in Europe.

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