World culture: The exhibition “Inspired by Rome. To the 400th anniversary of Salvator Rosa and Gaspard Dughet”

November 28, 2015 in the fund IN ARTIBUS (Moscow) was opened the exhibition "Inspired by Rome. To the 400th anniversary of Salvator Rosa and Gaspard Dughet". The exhibition will be accompanied by a scientific conference, organized with the support of the State Institute of Art (December 1, 2015).

In the halls of the Fund in Moscow for the first time you can see about fifty works of two prominent European artists of the XVII century, united by the theme of the Eternal City, a total interest in the great heritage of ancient culture and a love of beautiful scenery of the ancient Latium and the Roman Campagna.

The exhibition, prepared in collaboration with major museums and private collections in Russia and Italy, includes paintings, drawings and prints from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Russian State Library, the Palazzo Costa and etc.

The exposition also presents "Landscape with angler" by Gaspard Dughet, leading his story from the collection of Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of King George I and George II. And first coming to Russian painting of Salvator Rosa, including the composition on the theme of the life of St. Anthony of Padua preaching to the fishes of the medieval collection of folk tales.

Canvases and graphics by Rosa and Dughet are complementary with etchings made by their works in the XVIII century and evidence of continuing interest of collectors and artists to the work of the masters of the Baroque period.