Italian Prime Minister visits the Pushkin Museum

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte visited the exhibition of Venetian painting "From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi", which runs in the Pushkin Museum until November 5.

During the visit, the Italian Prime Minister was accompanied by Mayor of Vicenza Francesco Rukko, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alla Manilova, Director of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin Marina Loshak, curator of the exhibition, chief researcher of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin, curator of Italian painting Victoria Markova.

The Pushkin Museum has been working closely with museums in Italy for many years, which makes it possible to organize exhibitions of Italian art of the highest level. The exhibition “From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi” combined works from Russian and Italian collections and became an important stage in the development of partnerships between Italian and Russian museums. The exhibition takes place in two stages: first in Moscow, and then in Vicenza.

Future exhibition plans of the Pushkin Museum to them. A.S. Pushkin is also closely associated with Italian art. In 2019, in Venice, together with the Stella Art Foundation, the museum will present the exhibition “Based on Tintoretto”. In 2020, masterpieces from the collection of the Capodimonte Museum (Naples) and a large-scale retrospective of the works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo will be shown in Moscow.

Marina Loshak, Director of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin: “The visit of the Italian Prime Minister to the Pushkin Museum is a confirmation of our great friendship with Italian art. Every year we make several important Italian projects that attract people from all over the world. The exhibition “From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi” aroused Mr. Conte’s interest also because it was the first experience of combining collections from two friendly museums - from the Vicenza museum and our collection. We are moving towards even more dense, meaningful and diverse cooperation - not only with exhibitions, but also in science, education and other fields. ”