The exhibition "Western European art of the XV – XIX centuries in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan"

The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan after completing a magnificent exhibition of works by Russian impressionist painter Konstantin Korovin from the collections of the Russian Museum provides an opportunity for lovers of fine art to see the masterpieces of Western European painting and graphic art from their own collection.

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The works of artists of the XV – XIX centuries of Western European schools (Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish, Dutch, French) are an adornment of the museum collection. Some of the works that can be seen at the opening exhibition are already familiar to Kazan connoisseurs of fine art and are loved by them: “Madonna and Child” by Puligo, “Portrait of a Young Man” by Domenikino (Domenico Zampieri), “Portrait of a Girl with a Dog” by the artist of the Svanenburkh circle, as well as rarely exhibited works by Mariotto di Nardo, the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jan Livens (contemporary of Rembrandt), Jean Marc Nattier and others.

The section “New arrivals of the Pushkin Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. "Western European engraving of the XVI – XVIII centuries. ".

A significant event of 2014 - the Year of Culture in the Russian Federation - for our museum was the acquisition of part of the collection of the famous Moscow collector and expert in engraving, author of articles on art, works on philosophical, literary and political topics - Alexander Nikitich Sevastyanov. The collection, numbering 71 sheets, came through the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. It includes works by the largest masters of classical European engraving of the 16th – 18th centuries of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Holland, Flanders, France and England and makes it possible to present each of the existing schools with first-row names, and often with well-known sheets.

New arrivals supplemented the section of a rare early engraving of the 16th century. Among them are works by the so-called “small-format masters”: Etienne Delon, Enea Vico, Hans-Zebald Beham; original etching of famous painters of the 17th – 18th centuries: the Dutch Adrian Ostade, Karel Dujardin, Jan Botha, rarely seen in Russian collections by Italian Benedetto Castiglione and others; etching fantasies of outstanding masters of the 17th century engraving: Frenchman Jacques Callot and Stefano della Bella.

Engravings from the famous suite of Antonis Van Dyck’s “Iconography” demonstrate the innovation of the portrait genre in the art of the 17th century Flanders, the traditional representative portrait is presented in the works of the leading French masters of the 18th century incisor engraving - Gerard Edelink, members of the Dreve family.

Engravings by Francois Boucher, Laurent Kars, Nicol Les Lesueur and other French masters from the famous 18th-century drapes reproducing the largest European collections recall the era of the heyday of collecting and art.

Allegories, biblical and mythological subjects, landscape (urban, rural, sea and plain), portrait and household genre (images of travelers, wandering musicians, brutal scenes in courgettes or secular) - all these works performed by execution will enable the visitor to get a true aesthetic the pleasure of communicating with the art of Italy, Holland, Flanders, France, Germany and Austria for five centuries.

The exhibition "Western European art of the XV – XIX centuries in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan" will run until April 30, 2017.