Exhibition «Icon Romanov dynasty era» of the collection of Victor Bondarenko, opens today at the State Tretyakov Gallery

Today at the State Tretyakov Gallery opens exhibition «Icon Romanov dynasty era», in which the icons from the collection of Victor Bondarenko. This exhibition is a new attempt to understand the development of Russian icon painting for three years of the last Russian dynasty - the House of Romanov. The project, bringing together an exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery and the publication of a monograph on the iconography of New Time, enter in the register of national cultural heritage of over two hundred previously unknown works of Russian religious art.

Project «Icon era of the Romanov dynasty» brings to the art of vivid and controversial period in Russian history and culture, which lasted from the end of XVII century and the beginning of XX century. The audience represented the result of many years of work collecting famous Moscow collector Viktor Bondarenko. The significance of the collection gathered by them is that it formed at the highest level, consists of pieces of museum quality and is open for research.

So far, at various exhibitions «Romanovsky» period in the history of Russian icon painting shown fragmentarily. For the first time, separate samples of its tercentenary of development are shown as fully as it could allow private collection. Most demonstrated icons related to the works of «personal piety». Many of them provide an excellent example of preservation of old traditions of Old Russian icon painting, combined with the latest trends in the art of his time. Like a mirror, these icons reflect the spiritual and social changes associated with the departure from the historical arena of the ancient dynasty Ryurikovichey, and with it Moscow Russia and the reign of the Romanov dynasty in 1613.

The most valuable collections represent different variants of the iconography of the image of the Virgin Mary, received in a separate exhibition space. Undoubted masterpiece is the image of Our Lady of Georgia, by painters Armory Kremlin Kirill Ulanova in the 1690's. Basil Ulanova created «Christmas Virgin Mary» (1715).

dominating the exhibition is Kostromskaya icon mid XIX century, «The Virgin Feodorovskaya, with the elected saints with the story and wonders of an icon». Protograf icons - dating from the XIII century miraculous image of Our Lady Feodorovskoy - linked to the election to the kingdom of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov. Since then, esteemed icon in the realm of the House as a family, and it made a lot of lists.

Among the notable images hristologicheskogo cycle composition «The Resurrection of Christ», executed in 1803 a master of the Great Ustyug Prokopiev Sokolov. The icon refers to «flow» in the Russian church art, which, as the samples used Western engraving.

Panel icons fine miniature letter represents an important layer старообрядческого Russian icon-painting. First of all, this icon of XVIII - XIX centuries from the famous village of Palekh. They revealed a very interesting trend is the revival the most revered «Novgorod letters».

Example ikonotvorchestva living in the First World War - the icon «The Appearance of the Virgin Mary Russian soldiers» (1915-1916).

Sample «documentation shrines» ратный an image of «Our Lady of Kazan», M. Malyutina satisfied with the miraculous icon of the Kazan Cathedral in Moscow. As the record on the reverse side of the icon-copy, it was consecrated Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret August 3, 1855 «for the administration of the city of Sevastopol brave Russian soldiers».

One of the best in the series a few repetitions of ancient miraculous image of «Our Lady of Vladimir» is a copy of AI Bryagina in original size. Established by the international exhibition «Russian Icon», held in 1929-1930 in Europe and the United States, it has long been considered lost.

Among a hundred exhibits - the masterpieces of the famous icon Guria Nikitina ( «The Trinity», 1690), Cyril Ulanova ( «The Trinity», 1721), Joseph Chirikova ( «Porfirio Prelate, Bishop Gazsky», end of XIX century) Alexei Tyulina ( «God Almighty», end of XIX century), Basil Guryanov ( «and the Prophets Onufriev Great Peter Athos», 1902), Michael Dikareva ( «John the Baptist and Saint Olympics», end of XIX - beginning of XIX century). Interesting and less well-known artists - Fedor Astrakhantseva, Feodota Protopopova-Ukhtomsky, etc.

The exhibition is a continuation of the project VA Bondarenko, realized in the walls of the Tretyakov Gallery, five years ago under the title «And the fruits of the tree known. Icons XV - XX Centuries from the Collection of Victor Bondarenko ». Published in the current project folio contains a monographic study of iconography of the period and the full catalog of icons XV - XX Centuries, collected by VA Bondarenko in the last ten years. According to the collector is one of the first anniversary of projects on the 400 th anniversary of the election and wedding king Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov.

Source: tretyakovgallery.ru