Today in the Department of Private Collections Pushkin Museum. Pushkin presents "The Return" of St. Luke. " Western European paintings VI - XVIII centuries from nine museums in Ukraine

Pushkin Museum Pushkin continues the series of exhibitions, "In the Shadow of amicable music ...", within which is a significant art collections of the CIS countries . The Museum has been displaying works of Western art XVI - XX centuries from the Museum of Foreign Art in Riga, as well as masterpieces of Armenian and Russian painting of XVIII - XX centuries from the museums of Armenia. The new project will introduce the audience to the Museum of Western part of museum collections in Ukraine. Thanks to the initiative of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin first time in one exhibition space will be presented 100 works of Western masters VI - XVIII centuries, performed in different genres and styles, from nine museums in Ukraine.

in the title of the exhibition is no accident was the title of the film "The Return" St. Luke ", popular in the 1970s and 80s of millions of Soviet people. The basis for the films that became classics of the detective genre, was the dramatic story of the 1960s associated with the canvas, "Luke" by Frans Hals. Legendary pictures of famous Dutch masters of the XVII century, depicting the Evangelists Luke and Matthew, from the collections of the Museum of Odessa has twice exhibited at the Pushkin Museum Pushkin Museum and today guests will meet again with them.

The origins of the exhibition of treasures exhibited in many ways typical of the regional collections formed in the Russian Empire during XVIII - beginning of XX century. For Ukraine, in particular, is characterized, on the one hand, focus on the tastes of the aristocracy of St. Petersburg and Moscow, in the left bank of the provinces - the proximity to Vienna, Lviv - to Warsaw, on the other hand, at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries were formed major collections belonging to the representatives of the Russian intelligentsia and the national bourgeoisie in Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov. This kind of collection became the basis of collections of Ukrainian art museums, which over the years of the Soviet Union also actively replenished with monuments of the central museum stores in Moscow and Leningrad. As a result, there is a fairly extensive network of museums in Ukraine. Virtually all of them have different levels of quality and quantitative composition of the collection, which includes some interesting and in some cases, outstanding works of old masters of Western, worthy expositions of the largest museums in the world. But only brought together under this exhibition project, they acquired the status display, full as aesthetically and in terms of representation of the leading Western European schools of painting and the main stages of their development.

Chronologically, the exhibition opened two extremely rare Byzantine icons VI century, closely associated with the traditions of early Christian art of the National Museum of Art named after Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko (Kiev).

Particularly noteworthy works masters of the early Italian Renaissance, of which occupy the central place of Paolo Veneziano yes, Jacopo del Sellayo, Gentile Bellini, also owned by the Kiev museum. Western European art of the XVI century is represented by the works of Marco Bazaiti and Sophonisba Angisholy from the collection of the Museum of Lviv , Paris Bordone ( Zhitomir ), and Girolamo Makketti ( Kyiv ). Of particular value and interest to the viewer are the product of Italian and Netherlandish karavadzhistov - followers of the great reformer of European painting by Michelangelo da Caravaggio - Bartolomeo Manfredi ( Kharkiv and Lviv ), Tommaso Salini ( Sevastopol ), Hendrik Terbryuggena ( Chernigov ), Gerrit van Honthorsta and Matthias Stoma (Zhitomir ). Among the other paintings by Italian masters should be made of Bernardo Strozzi ( Odessa ), Luca Giordano and Giovanni Paolo Panini (Zhitomir ), Alessandro Magnasco and Giambattista Tiepolo ( Kiev ), Jacopo Amigoni (Donetsk).

to the undisputed masterpieces displayed at the exhibition include the still-life painter of the Spanish Juan de Zurbaran (Kiev ) , which is sort of a standard in the works of this great master of Seville .

Among the works of the French school should pay particular attention to the work of artists such as Michel de Bouillon, Jean-Baptiste Martin, Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and Jean-Baptiste Regnault ( Kyiv ).

Among the works of German and Austrian Schools deserve special attention paintings by Wolfgang Krodel Senior and Franz Anton Maulbercha ( Lions ), Henry Gottlieb Heuser ( Chernigov ), Philip Ferdinand de Hamilton, John Adalbert Angermayera and Johann Friedrich Tishbeyna (Kiev ).

The display of early Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch schools make up the wonderful works of such masters as Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Sebastian Vranks, Martin Pepeyn, Dennis van Alslot, Geysbreht Leytens, the so-called Master Hanenkovskogo "The Adoration of the Magi," de Kerstian Keynink, Leonart Bramer, Nicholas Knyupfer, Jan Veniks from the collection of the Kiev Museum , and Frans Hals, Hendrick Mommers, Peter Bull, Cornelis Lelienberg of Odessa Museum , and Jan van Skorel, Jan van Goyen, Willem Deyster, Simon de Vliger, Ferdinand Bol of the Kharkiv museum. In addition, the exhibition will feature original works Gillis Mostaert, Jacques de Bakker, Jan van Kessel of Lviv Museum, of Karel Slabbarta of this museum, Clara Peters Museum of Poltava and Nicholas Elias Pikenoya, Francois Reykhalsa from the collection of the Museum of Sevastopol .

Among the exhibits - paintings by famous masters like: "Behold Man, "by Bernardo Strozzi," The Holy Family with John the Baptist on his way to Egypt, "Paris Bordone," God of the river Scheldt, the goddess Cybele and the city of Antwerp, "Rubens," Cupid and Sleeping Nymphs "Jordaens," Concert "Terbryuggena," The Evangelist Matthew, "and "Luke" by Frans Hals, and works of lesser-known artists of a wide audience, from a heritage of which survived for only a few pictures. This, for example, "Shepherd, who plays with the cat and mouse" Tommaso Salini, "The Lady in the room after returning from church," Karel Slabbarta, "Still Life with a bat a bird" ("Hunting Trophies"), Christian Van Hale.

first time 100 works of Western European painting of the nine museums of Ukraine gathered in one exhibition - exhibition is unique for Russia, and Ukraine. Many of the shows for the first time since they were kept in museums in the vaults, a number of paintings in the preparation of the exhibition was returned for the lost century authorship. Through effective collaboration and professionalism of the two countries were able to prepare an exhibition that reflects the modern, brand new and fruitful phase of cooperation of Ukraine and the Russian museum workers.

exhibition is accompanied by a detailed scientific catalog, compiled by the combined labors of specialists GMII them. Pushkin V. E. Markova and VA Sadkov and employees of museums in Ukraine.

participate in the exhibition: The National Museum of Art named after Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko (Kiev); Lviv National Gallery of Art, Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art; Poltava Art Museum (Art Gallery) to them. Nicholas Yaroshenko, Sevastopol Art Museum. MP Kroshitskogo, Donetsk Regional Art Museum, Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Art, Kharkiv Regional Art Museum, Chernihiv Regional Museum of Art.