Exhibitions: Exposition: “Unknown Artist. Painting and sculpture of the XVII-XIX centuries from the collection of the Russian Museum” in Saint-Petersburg

August 22, 2012 an exhibition "Unknown Artist. Painting and sculpture of the XVII - XIX centuries from the collection of the Russian Museum" is opened on August 22, 2012 in the Benois Wing of the State Russian Museum (Saint-Petersburg).

The exhibition features over two hundred paintings and several sculptures, which remain anonymous up to the present day. Most of these works belong to the XVIII - first half of the XIX century. This fact has its own substantiation. The further the time of creation of the canvas is far from the date of its arrival to the museum fund, so usually, more owners and middlemen and antiquarians - is between it and today's audience, and it is more likely that the documents and evidence of its authorship will be hidden and lost in the annals of history.

The exhibition is made thematically: "Parsuna and a portrait of Peter's time", "Imperial portraits", "Uniform portraits", "Child's Portrait", "Merchant's portrait", "Portraits of the clergy", "Portraits and self-portraits of artists", "Genre paintings, interiors, still life», «Historical painting", "Allegorical paintings", "Urban Landscape".

The displayed material, almost never exposed, is able to expand understanding of the stages of development of the national culture. It goes long stay painting at the exhibition that attracts the attention of scholars and specialists, and apparently stimulates new research and attribution of ideas, which is especially important when it comes to paintings, the name of authors which was lost in the centuries.