Museums of Russia and world culture: Masterpieces of Northern Gothic and Renaissance displayed in Moscow

Rare masterpieces of Gothic art of 15th-17th cc. have been put on display within the framework of “Art of Northern Gothic and Renaissance” exhibition, which has been launched at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

The exhibition showcases almost a hundred of items of Gothic wooden sculpture, furniture and paintings originating from Mikhail Perchenko’s private collection, which have never been displayed before. These masterpieces have been created for one and a half century by German and Dutch masters.

The exposition features 33 paintings, over 60 sculptures and 9 furniture pieces. Incredibly beautiful Gothic sculptures that show saints are represented in two forms: artists preferred to color their works but many of them used natural wood structure.

Among the masterpieces of art it is worth mentioning the painting “Lamentation”, which is one of the earliest replicas of an original, which hasn’t survived by an outstanding Dutch artist Hugo van der Goes. The real pearl of the exhibition is a panoramic “Landscape with the scene of rest of Holy Family on the way to Egypt” by an artist from the circle of Joachim Patinir – the forefather of landscape painting of the Dutch art.

The exposition “Art of Northern Gothic and Renaissance” will run from February 1 until March 31.