58 works goes to the Pushkin Museum from April 28th
Artworks of the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo on display in Moscow
Sandro Botticelli, Storia di Virginia Romana, c.1498
E. Bramati
23/03/2014
Bergamo - The Russia-Italy Bilateral Year of Tourism in 2013-2014 aims at promoting mutually the cultural and landscape beauties of these two countries.
On this occasion, museums and cultural institutions have organized many events. Russian ones, in particular, set up an increasing number of exhibition dedicated to Italian masters.
After the success of the works by Guercino and Caravaggio, displayed at the Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg in 2013, also Moscow presented paintings by Mantegna at the Kremlin and by Titian at the Pushkin Museum.
The latter will open to the public with the exhibition "Italian paintings from the collection of the Accademia Carrara", with works from the Bergamo Art Gallery.
Among the 58 masterpieces that are headed to Russia, where they will stay from April 29th to June 27th, 2014, there are the "Story of Virginia Romana" by Botticelli and the "Portrait of Leonello of Este" by Pisanello, but also Bellini, Carpaccio and many other big names.
The renovation works of the Accademia Carrara, which began in 2008, required the collection to be moved to the temporary location of Palazzo della Ragione. Instead of being kept in storage, many other paintings have been traveling all around the world and were displayed in Stockholm, Canberra and New York.
On this occasion, museums and cultural institutions have organized many events. Russian ones, in particular, set up an increasing number of exhibition dedicated to Italian masters.
After the success of the works by Guercino and Caravaggio, displayed at the Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg in 2013, also Moscow presented paintings by Mantegna at the Kremlin and by Titian at the Pushkin Museum.
The latter will open to the public with the exhibition "Italian paintings from the collection of the Accademia Carrara", with works from the Bergamo Art Gallery.
Among the 58 masterpieces that are headed to Russia, where they will stay from April 29th to June 27th, 2014, there are the "Story of Virginia Romana" by Botticelli and the "Portrait of Leonello of Este" by Pisanello, but also Bellini, Carpaccio and many other big names.
The renovation works of the Accademia Carrara, which began in 2008, required the collection to be moved to the temporary location of Palazzo della Ragione. Instead of being kept in storage, many other paintings have been traveling all around the world and were displayed in Stockholm, Canberra and New York.
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