Great painters of the Renaissance, Carrara Academy in Bergamo
ARTinvestment.RU   28 апреля 2014

in tourism Year of Italy in Russia Pushkin Museum. Pushkin is unique in its level exhibition from the collection of the Academy of Carrara in Bergamo, one of the famous and distinctive museums in Italy . The first time in Russia before the public appear bright panorama of artistic achievements of the Renaissance. Due to the level and completeness of this exhibition surpasses all still carried out in our country. The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow .

The exhibition will feature 58 paintings of the Renaissance masters , including works by Pisanello , Jacopo and Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Perugino , Bartolomeo Vivarini , Carpaccio , Vincenzo Foppa , Lorenzo Lotto , Giovanni Moroni , and many other masters , which will allow the viewer to trace the development of art in Italy, one of the most interesting and important moments in history . Chronologically, the exhibition covers the XV and XVI centuries , the period of formation of a new art based on the principles of humanism, to the masterpieces created by the masters , became famous for his time .

most famous of the exhibited paintings - written in 1441 " Portrait of Duke Lionello d'Este " Antonio Pisanello , an outstanding painter, draftsman , stood at the origins of European medal art . There are less than ten world-renowned works of the artist , and they are no domestic museums .

Deserved fame worldwide enjoys creativity worked in Florence Sandro Botticelli and Pietro Perugino , who had a studio also native Perugia. The exhibition includes works such as "The History of the Life of St. . Virginia " (1500-1510) ," Portrait of Giuliano de 'Medici " (1478-1480) , " Blessed Savior " (1495-1500) Botticelli ; " Adoration of the Shepherds " ( 1504 ) by Pietro Perugino .

with special fullness at the exhibition will be shown paintings of northern Italy , is experiencing a rapid flowering of Renaissance art centers across this vast region : in Venice and Ferrara , Bergamo, Milan and Turin . Real discovery for the audience will be familiar with two world-famous paintings by Giovanni Bellini , depicting the Madonna and Child. The name of this great painter associated with the formation and flourishing of the Early Renaissance in Venice. In meetings Russian works of Giovanni Bellini absent .

special place in the exhibition belongs to the works of Lorenzo Lotto , familiar to our viewers at the exhibition held in recent years in the Pushkin Museum . Presented four track masters belong to the time of his work in Bergamo . Among them the famous " Mystic Marriage of St.. Catherine "( 1523 ).

real discovery for visitors to the Museum will be familiar with the works of the Milanese painters Foppa Vincenzo ( Calvary , 1450 ) and Ambrogio Bergonone ( two sash polyptych Madonna della Rosa , 1515 ) Ferrara artist Cosimo Tours ( Madonna and Child , 1460-1465)

exhibition concludes with works by Venetian masters of the XVI century , who were contemporaries of Titian, worked with him and were often compete with him . This group of compositions on religious and secular themes , as well as portraits : "Madonna and Child with Saints " (1510-1515) by Jacopo Palma the Elder ; "Musician" (c. 1520 ) Giovanni Karjane ; "Madonna and Child with Saints " (c. 1520 ) by Andrea Previtali ; " Semi portraits Bernardo Spini and Pace Rivoli back" ( 1573 ), " Portrait of a Young Venetian " ( 1567 ), " Portrait of the girl from the family Redetti " ( 1570 ) Giovanni Battista Moroni, one of the first great portrait painters of Europe .

Source : artsmuseum.ru