Titian's famous painting" Diana and Acteon, redeemed the National Gallery in London and Edinburgh, will go to this year's tour the United States.

National Gallery of Scotland, which is stored in the collection of this masterpiece, signed with Hai Art Museum in Atlanta, an agreement for a term of four years on the show in the U.S. canvases from Edinburgh. Under this agreement on 16 October this year in Atlanta, will open the first exhibition "Venetian masterpieces from the National Gallery of Scotland. Its main exhibits will be "Diana and Acteon" and "Diana and Callisto" by Titian, never fleeing Britain in 1798. After the exhibition will move to the Atlanta Art Institute of Minneapolis (February 5 - May 1, 2011) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (May 21 - August 14, 2011). Later in the U.S. are also planned and several exhibitions from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland - in 2012, 2013 and possibly in 2014. Details are not disclosed, but it is expected that one of them will be devoted to Scottish art. We also know that all of the exhibition after Atlanta to visit Minneapolis and Houston.

main objective of the upcoming tour - gathering necessary for the National Galleries of Scotland. The museum director John Leighton (John Leighton) explained: "We have a large bill for" Actaeon by Titian, an impressive amount to be collected on the "Callisto", plus another 17.6 million pounds needed to repair in the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. This funding from private sponsors greatly reduced, and we seem to have to tighten their belts ».

Recall that" Diana and Acteon "together with another picture of Titian's" Diana and Callisto "at the center of the scandal, which caused a huge impact not only in British society, but also outside it. The Duke of Sutherland, owner of two works, more than 60 years were kept in the National Gallery of Scotland, said he wanted to put them up for public auction. In order to avoid selling on the open market and to preserve the masterpieces by Titian for the British nation, Duke offered to buy them from him for 100 million pounds. The first 50 million for the Diana and Actaeon "representatives of the National Gallery had to be collected before the end of 2008, with great difficulty, but the managed to do . In the search for 50 million more, Duke gave the museum another four years - until December 2012.

American tour, the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland should certainly help raise the necessary funds. According to Leighton, now lives in the United States 4.8 million people who believe their ancestors to the Scots. It's almost as many lives for the moment in most of Scotland.

consent to the screening of two paintings by Titian in the United States gave the National Gallery in London, the Scottish Executive and even the Duke of Sutherland. He also promised to convey to the exposition, another owned by his great Venetian painting - "The Virgin Mary with baby Jesus and John the Baptist," which is also located in the National Gallery in Edinburgh on the basis of long-term loan.

Now "Diana and Actaeon" is exhibited in the National Gallery in London. From May to September this year, she traveled to Aberdeen, Glasgow and Dundee. Then go to the United States and return to the UK in August 2011. A picture will arrive in London in the summer of 2012, the beginning of the Olympic Games.

Material prepared Ekaterina Guseva, AI

Source: theartnewspaper.com , artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru

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