Society and Church: The exhibition "Sacred History and the earthly life of the Church in the works of Western European Art" in St. Petersburg

The exhibition "Sacred History and the earthly life of the Church in the works of Western European Art" is opened on December 29, 2016 at the State Museum of the History of Religion (St. Petersburg).

An inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists from all over the Christian world for the third millennium serves the history and characters of the Holy Scriptures. From the Middle Ages to the early modern Catholic Church has great influence on the formation of religious art, requiring precise repetition of artists not only sacred texts and canons, rigidly consolidated the figurative motifs and compositional schemes.

The works of painting, drawing, arts and crafts, presented at the exhibition, are diverse in religious themes and symbols. Created by masters of different schools of thought over the centuries, these sites will allow users to not only discover previously unknown artistic treasures, but also to get in touch with them imprinted in the history of Christianity and the Catholic Church. Art of the late Renaissance, the era of the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque present the names of famous Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome and northern artists - Francesco and Girolamo Bassano, Carletto Cagliari, Pietro Damini, Volterrano and others.

The exhibition will run till February 12, 2017.