Works from the City Museum of Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza, from the collection of "Intesa Sanpaolo" — Gallery Italy, Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Vicenza and the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin in Moscow

the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin,
24 July — on October 14 2018
Main building, Moscow, Volkhonka, 12

the exhibition presents 57 works, including 23 works from the Palazzo Chiericati, 25 works from the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, 9 works from the Galleries of Italy — Palazzo Leoni Montanari. The exhibition is held under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Moscow.

the Work of these congregations, has long won international fame for the first time shown together in a single space that allows viewers to get a better idea of the variety of Venetian painting and the Rococo. In the exhibition one can see works by such important Italian artists as Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Pittoni, Luke Carlevaris, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Piazzetta, Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Pietro Longhi.

exhibition Curators: Victoria Markova, chief researcher of the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin, curator of Italian painting; Giovanni C. F. Villa, the honorary Director of the civic museums of Vicenza.

the Venetian school of painting in the Renaissance gave the world of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, in the XVIII century, is experiencing a new period of brilliant prosperity. Venice became an important center of European artistic life, which is especially evident in painting, marked with bright colorful, decorative and diverse genres.

a True expression of the spirit of Venice is considered to be Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) — largest Italian painter of the eighteenth century, largely continued the tradition of Paolo Veronese, the last representative of the Baroque in European art. His paintings and murals are characterized by emotional emotion, dynamic compositions and bright colors.

In the eighteenth century in Venice there is a special type of the urban landscape, called "Veduta". It originates in the works little known to our audience bows Carlevaris (1663-1730), whose compositions can be seen at the exhibition. Its true heyday of this genre have survived in the work of Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768), depicting a unique image and atmosphere of Venice, her everyday life and holidays. Unlike Canaletto, Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) saw their city differently. Not aiming for precision image, he created a poetic and picturesque imagination, arbitrarily linking the real motives and fiction. This type of landscape is called "Caprice."

life of the Venetians of the eighteenth century has depicted in his works the master of genre painting Pietro Longhi (1702-1785): sketches from the life of — secret meetings, games, fun street scenes,the depiction of everyday events — were the main topics of his works.

Craftsmen, who glorified the Venetian school, not always lived and worked in the capital: the talent, the artists often implemented in small towns. Special attention deserves Vicenza — "city of Palladio", so called in honor of the famous Italian architect Andrea Palladio. He was born in Padua, but a significant part of the architectural heritage left in Vicenza. One of the masterpieces of Palladio — Chiericati Palazzo which today houses the City Museum, Vicenza, presented the works to the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum. Of A. S. Pushkin. Viewers can also see the exposition of the work of Palazzo Leoni Montanari (Galleries of Italy) in Vicenza who are familiar with Venetian painting of the XVIII century from the collection of "Intesa Sanpaolo".

the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin's works by Italian artists from different collections complement each other: the famous painting of Canaletto "Return of Bucintoro to the Mall at the Palazzo Ducale" and two other works of this master belonging to the Pushkin Museum, serve as a decoration of the exhibition in Vicenza, where the works of this eminent painter do not exist (in Venice you can find only a few works). In Vicenza there and paintings by Bernardo Bellotto, nephew of Canaletto, which is rich in the collection of Moscow Museum. At the same time in Russia the works of Giambattista Piazzetta, one of the best of whose works, "the Ecstasy of St. Francis", is on display at the exhibition. Little known to the Russian viewer and the work by Pietro Longhi, painter, devoted himself to genre painting. Its a small fun pictures, filled with subtle humor, reveal the viewer the lives of an aristocratic Venetian society. The exhibition shows the work of Giambattista Tiepolo, one of the greatest masters of European painting of XVIII century, which is rightly proud of the museums of Moscow and Vicenza. Thus, the exhibition of his work appears in a wide thematic range and variety of genres, from plafond compositions of the allegorical theme of "Time revealing Truth" (Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza) until written to churches, the altar images, and small easel paintings for private clients, among which craftsmanship is the "Death of Didon" (Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin). Chronologically, the exposition ends with a group of landscapes-каприччо Francesco Guardi, who left to posterity a unique full of poetry image of Venice — amazing city on the lagoon.

Marina Loshak, Director, Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin: "the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin for many years, working closely with the museums of Italy, which has the possibility to organize exhibitions of Italian art of the highest level. Inspired by the high level of the paintings of the Italian school, is stored in the Pushkin Museum, Art Museum Director, Vicenza Professor Giovanni Villa offered a joint exhibition that combines works from Italian and Russian collections. The exhibition will be an important step in the development of partnerships between Italian and Russian museums and will take place in two stages: the first will be shown in Moscow, and then — in Vicenza".

Source: pushkinmuseum.art