World Culture: Italian painting and sculpture of 17th-18th centuries go on display at “Hermitage-Vyborg” Center

Within the framework of the Year of Italy in Russia the “Hermitage-Vyborg” Center in Leningrad Region has opened “Italian painting and sculpture of Baroque period from collections of the State Hermitage” exhibition. On show go 25 paintings and 34 sculptures from the museum’s collection, some of which have never been displayed before.

The Roman school, which set the tone in Baroque sculpture, is represented by such masters as Bernini and Matteo Ponzone.

Two first-class paintings of Florentine school are Francesco Furini’s “Andromeda” and Carlo Dolci’s “Saint Catherine of Alexandria”.

The exposition features works by famous artists of that epoch – Allessandro Algardi, Domenico Guidi, Ercole Ferrata, Peirano Genovese, Luca Carlevaris.

Works of sculpture, created in Rome between 1600 and 1750, make the core of the exhibition in Vyborg.

In 1919 the major part of models by modern history masters was donated to the Hermitage, since then the sole competitor of the Hermitage judging by richness of the collections of such kind – has remained only the collection of the Palazzo di Venezia in Rome.