December 13-18 at the Moscow World Fine Art Christie's will top lots of the auction "Renaissance" (30 January 2013). Apart from Botticelli to Moscow will bring work by Bartolomeo Veneto, Scipione Pultsone and Giovanni Paolo Panini

Sandro Botticelli The Virgin with the infant Christ and St.. John the Baptist Wood, oil, tempera and gold. 46,3 x 36,8 Source: Press Release Christie's

Christie's will hold its pre-show brush paintings by Italian Renaissance at the Moscow World Fine Art Fair from 13 to 18 December.

Visitors will have the works of art created by the leading artists of the Florentine and Venetian schools of painting, exhibited for the first time in Russia. After the Moscow exhibition paintings will go to New York and will be auctioned under the name "Renaissance", which will be held January 30, 2013 during the week of the Old Masters. Total estimated cost of the picture that will be shown in the Russian capital, is about $ 30 million.

favorite Moscow show is undoubtedly the work of Alessandro Filipepi known as Sandro Botticelli (1444/45- 1510, Florence) "The Virgin with the infant Christ and St.. John the Baptist. " Botticelli's work as outstanding provenance: in 1930 the Baron Dyuvina it was acquired by John D. Rockefeller, whose family she was for 50 years, so that even had the name "Madonna Rockefeller." Recently, the picture was kept in a private collection in New York.

In his 1989 monograph on the works of well-known expert Botticelli Ronald Laytbaun writes about film: "The film takes place on an open balcony, surrounded by decorated with gold relief parapet. The subtle nuances of carved ornament parapet show reverence to the ancient sculpture, the test Botticelli, as well as most of his contemporaries. Transmitted from a bird's eye view, shown in the background, bathed in sunlight, typical for this stage of the artist's work and emphasizes the character of the unfolding before the eyes of the viewer scene ».

Earlier work by Sandro Botticelli" The Virgin with the Infant Christ and St. John the Baptist "repeatedly exhibited in exhibitions devoted to the artist, including held in 2004 in the Florentine Palazzo Strozzi exhibition" Botticelli and Filippino: the passion and grace of Florentine painting XV century. " A series of pre-auction exhibition in December 2012 - January 2013 will be the first public display of the last decade, but in Russia it will see for the first time in history.

Alex Ashot, a specialist of the International Department of the Old Masters and Art XIX century: "This painting is a rare and outstanding example of mature work by Botticelli. Today, it takes its rightful place among the recognized masterpieces, backed authority experts like Ronald Laytbaun, Larry Canter (Yale University) and Everett Fahey (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art) ».

Bartolomeo VENETO The Virgin and Child. 1502 Source: Press Release Christie's

Scipione PULTSONE Portrait of Jacopo Bonkompani three quarters in the armor. 1574 Source: Press Release Christie's

Giovanni Paolo Panini Capitol, Rome. 1750 Source: Press Release Christie's

addition, the visitors will be presented work by Bartolomeo Veneto "Virgin and Child" (1502) and Scipione Pultsone "Portrait of Jacopo Bonkompani three quarters in the Shell" (1574), and a pair of unusual types of Rome brush great vedutista XVIII century by Giovanni Paolo Panini.

Source : Press Release Christie's