Exhibition dedicated to the sacred art of the XVII century, features works exclusively from the Russian Museum funds, many of them — for the first time

the state Russian Museum, Benois wing
21 Feb — may 13 2019
St.-Петербург, Griboyedov canal embankment,2

an Extensive collection of books, items of jewelry, pictorial embroidery, icon-painting, monumental painting of the XVII century, gradually formed since the Foundation of the Museum, provides a comprehensive view of the ways and peculiarities of development of art of this time.

For the Russian culture of the XVII century, which began the time of Troubles and ended with the Petrine reforms, characteristic of the growth of individual personality, the appearance in the iconography of the hell of illusionism, the strengthening of the relations between painting and iconography, of great interest to all Western Europe, unprecedented attention to the detailed letter.

viewers will be able to get acquainted with the basic phenomena of the artistic life of the seventeenth century, to learn about the development of various centers. When looking at the lavishly decorated altar gospel, precious, rubies, diamonds and emeralds, icon frames, and untouchable craftsmanship monuments of iconography, it's hard to believe XVII century — is not only unprecedented prosperity, but also the lush sunset medieval culture.

One of the brightest will take the originality of the iconography of the XVII century — is an exceptional abundance of names. From the XVII century until we reached the hundreds of subscription icons and works of decorative-прикладного art. The exhibition presents the icon painted by Simon Ushakov, Procopius Cirina, Nicephorus Savin, Tikhon Filatiev, Kirill Ulanov, Nikita Pavlovets, works of pictorial embroidery, executed in the workshops of Anna Ivanovna Stroganova, Queen Eudoxia of We, the boyar Anna ilinichny Morozova, work jewelers Andrew Blankenstein, Ivan Yurkin and other masters.

In this era traces the rise of conflicts, the increase of polarity of artistic phenomena. Dive into the artistic world of the Fall of the Russian middle ages allows for-новому to see the era of Peter's reforms, to realize that the base and the construction of St. Petersburg, as well as the process of secularization of art in the eighteenth century was an organic consequence of the spiritual quest of a person of the XVII century.

Source: rusmuseum.ru