Tonight in TG (Lavrushinsky, 12) will vernissage of the exhibition, bringing together about 100 paintings and drawings from the Russian and Italian museums and private collections

TG, Corps of Engineers, December 9, 2011 - March 11, 2012
Moscow, Lavrushinsky Lane, 12,

The State Tretyakov Gallery (Corps of Engineers, Lavrushinsky lane 12) will be held today vernissage of the exhibition «O Dolce Napoli. Naples eyes of Italian and Russian artists of XVIII - early XIX centuries ».

KATEL Franz Grotto. Amalfi. 1818-1824 Oil on canvas. 35 x 49. Franz Ludwig Foundation Katelya Source: Press TG release

ALEXANDER BRYULLOV Portrait of Countess Vorontsov EA and Princess Galitzine EM 1825 Watercolours and pencil. 43 x 34. TG Source: Press Release TG

exhibition, taking place in the cross of the Year Italy - Russia, is devoted to Naples - the city that became a symbol of earthly bliss. Geographical context combines paintings and drawings by Russian and Italian artists who were inspired by the genius of the place - Naples.

Lines traditional Neapolitan songs became the title of the exhibition is not accidental. They - the quintessence of a special relationship to this southern, not unlike any other city in Italy. Naples differed from the "academic" in Rome, Florence and classic carnival of Venice to its location, a mild coastal climate and unique atmosphere dolce far niente - «blissful doing nothing».

Sylvester Shchedrin View of Naples. (Riviera di Chiaia.) 1826 Oil on canvas. 45,7 x 67. TG Source: Press Release TG

Sylvester Shchedrin large harbor on the island of Capri. 1827 Oil on canvas. 43 x 60. TG Source: Press Release TG

Diplomatic relations between the Russian Empire and Naples kingdom was established in 1777. Connection between the two countries were very strong and friendly during the first half of the XIX century, until 1861, since the accession to the combined Naples Italian kingdom. Genuine flowering of Russian-Neapolitan political, economic and cultural ties reached during the reign of Emperor Nicholas I. At various times in Naples came Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Tyutchev, and VA Zhukovsky, Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Pogodin historians and SP Shevyrev. Together with his brother - architect of S. Ivanov has lived and worked in the vicinity of Naples, the great painter AA Ivanov .

Sylvester Shchedrin View of Amalfi. 1827-1828 Oil on canvas. 44 x 61,5. TG Source: TG press release

Sylvester Shchedrin View Vico between Castellammare and Sorrento. 1828 Option paintings in 1828, located in the Novgorod historical and architectural museum-reserve. Do not over Oil on canvas. 61 x 87. TG Source: Press Release TG

genuine picturesque town became a mecca for landscape (1791-1830), who was perhaps the most famous Russian "Neapolitan." A graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts S. Shchedrin, arrived in Italy in 1818, lived and worked there until the end of his life (he is buried in Sorrento). In one of the earliest works of Neapolitan period - "Naples. On the waterfront (Riviera di Chiaia) ", 1819 (TG) - the artist has depicted himself among the many figures of the foreground. This landscape, as well as other, later on a similar subject - "View of Naples (Riviera di Chiaia)", 1826 (TG) - the first time after restoration for a long time became available to the public.

The exhibition presents a series of gouaches executed by Italian artists, amateurs (GIM). According to the purpose of these graphic works were the forerunners of commemorative postcards, which played the most popular and scenic spots of Naples: a panorama of the city from the hill Posillipo, the Royal Palace of Capodimonte, views of Mount Vesuvius, is often depicted with a smoking top or at the time of the eruption, the island and the coast Bay of Naples.

Orest Kiprensky Readers of newspapers in Naples. 1831 Oil on canvas. 64,5 x 78,3. TG Source: TG press release

Fyodor Tolstoy Naples. Scenes and styles. 1845 paper, sepia, watercolor, ink. 42 x 53.5. TG Source: Press Release TG

an important role in the Neapolitan painting had played so called "school Pozillippo" (named after the hill on the outskirts of Naples), which includes the work of Giacinto Gigante "View of Naples" (1845, Pushkin Museum), "View of the coast Pozilippo" (c. 1844, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) presented at the exhibition. "School Pozilippo" arose as a reaction to Italian classicism, reflected in the landscape in conventionally decorative transformation of the real nature.

important place among the paintings devoted to Naples, take the image of its inhabitants: the young Neapolitan with tambourines, cowherd boys, and fishermen. Sketches of Franz Katelya ("Pifferari" from the Institute of Katelya) and Filippo Palitstsi ("Peasant with a boy playing the flute Pissarro" at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) with images of wandering musicians - pifferari reflect the poetic perception of close nature of commoners. Truthful picture of life Neapolitans can be found in the works of Russian painters VK Shtemberga , Sorokin .

special group at the exhibition are portraits of Russian travelers wealthy customers and artists against the backdrop of Mount Vesuvius. They are full of remarkable Russian artists - Briullov , VATropinin , P. N. Orlov .

discovery will work K. P . Bryullov «Portrait of the painter F. Katelya and his wife" (1830), never before are leaving the Institute Katelya.

< div class = "imgcenter"> PIMENOV ORLOV Self-Portrait. 1851 Oil on canvas. 45 x 38. TG Source: Press Release TG

Alexander Ivanov On the shore of the Bay of Naples in Castellammare. 1843-1859 Watercolour and pencil. 24 x 37.6. TG Source: Press Release TG

Mapping works of Russian artists with works by Italian contemporaries reveals the features of national identity and the perception of an art school in each country.

Paintings and sketches, colorful gouache and subtle watercolors, drawings in the travel albums allow the viewer to see the wonderful city atmosphere, in respect of which born became a winged phrase - "See Naples and die» (vedi Napoli e poi muori - Italian .).

Evgraf SOROKIN Rendezvous. 1858 Oil on canvas. 138 x 100,5. TG Source: Press Release TG < /td>

exhibition brings together about 100 paintings and drawings from the Russian and Italian museums - the Tretyakov Gallery, Historical Museum, Pushkin Museum. A. Pushkin Museum of Tropinin, National Gallery of Modern Art (Rome) and the Institute Katelya (Rome), as well as private collections.

The exhibition is an album-directory pictorial material which slightly exceeds the exposure on the number of pieces. Relations between travelers and the city and its inhabitants is described in chapter "Historical news: people and events».

Source : TG press release

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