Museums: West-European paintings of the 6th -18th cc. from Ukrainian museums on display in Moscow

July 16, 2012 the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts launches "The Return" of St. Luke." West European paintings of the 6th – 18th centuries from museums of Ukraine."

The Pushkin Museum continues the series of exhibitions, "In the shadow of amicable muses...", featuring significant art collections of the near abroad. The Museum has been displaying works of West European art of the 16th – 20th centuries from the Museum of Foreign Art in Riga, as well as masterpieces of Armenian and Russian painting of the 18th – 20th centuries from the museums of Armenia. The new project will introduce the audience to the West European part of Ukraine museum collections. Thanks to the initiative of the Pushkin Museum, for the first time in one exhibition space will be brought together 100 works of West European masters of the 6th – 18th centuries, performed in different genres and styles, from nine museums of Ukraine.

The core of the display will be represented by first-class works from the B. and V. Khanenko National Art Museum of Kyiv, the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa, the Art Museum in Kharkov. The paintings of outstanding artistic level are also provided by the museums of Lviv, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Sevastopol, and Chernigov.