Unique Renaissance exhibition opened in Moscow Automatic translate
A unique exhibition of paintings of the Renaissance opened in the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin. The exhibition, entitled “The Great Renaissance Painters from the Carrara Academy in Bergamo,” consists of 58 works and is unique in that within the framework of a single exhibition, the viewer is offered a journey through all three Renaissance periods - the emergence, unusual flowering and slow fading.
The collection of the Carrara Museum is one of the most famous in Europe; its collection includes about 2000 paintings donated at different times by private Italian collectors. The museum was founded at the end of the 18th century and for a long time its wealth was inaccessible to a wide audience. According to Giovanni Valagus, director of the museum from Bergamo, their collection of paintings by great masters is one of the best in the world.
Several iconic paintings flew to Moscow from Italy: “Portrait of the Duke of Lionello d’Este” by Antonio Pisanello, “The Mystical Betrothal of St. Catherine” by Lorenzo Lotto, “Nativity of Christ” by Pietro Perugino, “Stories of St. Virginia”Alessandro Botticelli etc. As a rule, speaking of the Italian Renaissance, we recall the names of Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other widely known artists. But the Italian school, like no other, is rich in great masters, and this is fully demonstrated by the exhibition at the Pushkin Museum.
One of the central paintings of the exhibition will be "Portrait of the Duke of Lionello d’Este" by Antonio Pisanello, painted in 1441. The artist became famous for reviving the medal art, which was very popular in antiquity, but almost completely forgotten in medieval Europe. The medals cast by him in the middle of the 15th century for the first time receive the status of monuments of art, not crafts. With a light hand Pisanello, medal art is being revived in Europe and is widespread. The best examples of the late Renaissance, presented at an exhibition in Moscow, it is necessary to recognize the portraits of Giovanni Battista Moroni, filled with psychologism. In a special style of the artist, the trends of Catholic reforms in art are already read, which actually put an end to the beautiful Renaissance.
The exhibition "The Great Painters of the Renaissance from the Carrara Academy in Bergamo" will run until July 27, 2014, tickets for the exhibition can be purchased at the box office of the museum and the city. View the same exhibition for free can those who like working as a cashier or museum keeper. You can find out about current vacancies in Moscow on the websites of employment agencies or in the special press.
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