We Invite You to the State Museum of fine arts named after A. S. Pushkin 15.09.2015 to the exhibition "Caravaggio and his followers. Paintings from the collections of the Foundation Longhi in Florence the Pushkin Museum named after A. S. Pushkin
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 15.09.2015 till 10.01.2016 year.
In the Pushkin Museum after named A. S. Pushkin is opened the exhibition "Caravaggio and his followers. Paintings from the collections of the Foundation Longhi in Florence the Pushkin Museum named after A. S. Pushkin". It is sort of a continuation of the first large – scale exhibition of the works of the great Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 – 1610), largely determined the further development of the European paintings, from the museums of Italy, which was held at the Museum in late 2011 – early 2012. At the current exhibition will be presented the famous the wizard "Boy bitten by a lizard" and paintings by leading Western European artists XVII – XVIII centuries, which to a large extent was influenced by Caravaggio. The uniqueness of the exhibition in that it includes works brought from Italy belonging to the Fund Roberto Longhi in Florence and the works in the collection of the State Museum of fine arts named after A. S. Pushkin. In total, displaying more than 50 paintings.
Thirty paintings from the Foundation Longhi positions are part of the rich collection gathered by scholar and critic Roberto Longhi (1890 – 1970), one of the prominent representatives of the world's art criticism. Today, as during the life of Roberto Longhi, this collection is stored on belonged to him Villa (Villa il Tasso) in Florence, which is now a major centre for the study of Italian art of the Renaissance and Baroque. The core of the exhibition is the famous painting "Boy bitten by a lizard" (1594), belonging to the early period of the art of Caravaggio. The exhibition logically continues the work of his first followers, Orazio Borgianni (1578 – 1616) and Carlo Saraceni (1570 – 1620),whose works are not often found outside of Italy.
North caravaggism is presented at the exhibition the song of Dirk van Baburen (1595 – 1624) "The Taking of Christ into custody", as well as two works of an artist,which has long lived in Sicily, Matthias Stomer (1600 – 1650) – "The Archangel Raphael in the house of Tobit" and "Healing of Tobit". In this section of the exposition will be exhibited the masterpiece of Valantin de Boulogne "The Denial of St. Peter" (1591 – 1632) is one of the best examples of the work of this French artist. A significant contribution of the Spanish school in international caravaggesque movement is demonstrated excellent five paintings of the series "The Apostles", recently rightly referred to the work of Jusepe Ribera (1591 – 1652), who worked in Naples.
The viewers will also see the outstanding quality of the picture of Passarotti Bartolomeo (1529 – 1592), who in his work, anticipated the naturalism of Caravaggio, Giovanni Lanfranco (1582 – 1647) and Giacinto brandi (1621 – 1691), reinterpreted the lessons of caravaggism in the spirit of high Baroque Guido Reni (1575 – 1642), made a clear contribution to the interpretation of the classical tradition in the seventeenth century. The exhibition will be shown the works of three "painters of reality" (a term coined by Longhi ) – Giacomo Ceruti (1698 – 1767), Fra Galgario (1655 – 1743) and Gaspare Traversi (1722 – 1770) – which is already in the next, XVIII century continued to draw inspiration from the traditions of naturalism, founded by Caravaggio.
The exhibition, organized in the Pushkin Museum named after A. S. Pushkin, gives us a brilliant opportunity to show 30 works from the collection of the Fund's long positions together with kept in the Museum are the paintings of Caravaggio circle – works by Italian, French, Dutch and Spanish masters. Thus,the visitors will have a unique opportunity to compare the level of performance and individual style of the artists. This is all the more fascinating that we are talking about works of eminent masters, such as Angelo Caroselli, Caracciolo, Valantin de Boulogne, Gerrit van Honthorst. Among the paintings, worthy of special attention, is the "Coronation of thorns" Tommaso Salini (1575 – 1625), artist, not represented in the collection Foundation Longhi positions, as the study of his work was the result of research in recent decades.
The exhibition is also helped to understand and evaluate the personality of a long-collector. The collected works reflect a deep interest in the work of Caravaggio and his circle, which scientists have carried through his whole life, and with excellent knowledge of art history and individual artists manners longs managed to acquire first-rate works of painters whose names have not enjoyed fame. Among them are the masterpiece of Angelo Caroselli (1585 – 1662) "Allegory of impermanence" (C.A. 1608 – 1610), the work of one of Caravaggio's Neapolitan, Battistello Caracciolo (1578 – 1635) "The entombment" and two paintings by Mattia Preti, "The Concert" (1620) and "Susanna and the elders" (1656 – 1659). Its fame Mattia Preti owes much to the works of youthful Roberto Longhi about the artists of the so-called naturalistic direction. The exhibition fully gives an idea of the important role played in scientific biography Longhi research about the work of Caravaggio and his immediate followers, which are called caravaggisti.
A kind of surprise for the visitors of the exhibition will be a large altar arrangement of Giovanni Ballon (1566 – 1643), teachers – Tommaso Salini purchased for the collection of the Pushkin Museum at the end of 2014. Some artworks, in particular painting by Battistello Caracciolo and two works by Jusepe Ribera, specially were restored and for the first time will appear before the public. The idea of the exhibition belongs to Victoria Markova. The curators of the exhibition are Mina Gregori, President of the Roberto Longhi, Maria Cristina Bandera, scientific director of the Foundation, and Victoria Markova, senior research associate, curator of Italian painting of the Pushkin Museum named after A. S. Pushkin.
