Tomorrow, 21 September, in the Year of Holland in Russia at the Pushkin Museum to them. A. C. Pushkin opened a unique exhibition "the Dutch group portrait of the Golden age from the collection of the Amsterdam Museum". Group portraits — one of the characteristic phenomena of the Golden age of Dutch art. It is in this genre that was created in the XVII century, reflected the enduring civic spirit of the nation, proud of the achievements of the new independent Respubliki@

the exhibition will feature portraits of Trustees of charitable institutions (orphanages, almshouses, hospitals), images of the members of the infantry and other corporations. Dressed in a simple black robe Trustees, full of piety and dignity shown during service zanyatiya@

the exhibition will be shown 10 large-format compositions, rarely leaving the walls of the Amsterdam Museum. The size of the monumental canvases (the"Group portrait shooters company of captain Johan Huydecoper and Lieutenant Frans van Waveren" painted by Govert Flinck) up to two and a half meters in height and more than five meters in length. In addition, the exhibition will display the works of such prominent Amsterdam masters as Dirk Jacobs, Nicholas Elias Picanol, bartolomeus the van der Helst and drugih@

Source: artsmuseum.ru