Exhibition: The exposition, dedicated to artists of Elizabethan time, in St. Petersburg

The exhibition "Georg Christoph Groot and Elizabeth's time", takes place in the Mikhailovsky Castle (the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg) on December 2, 2016 - March 31, 2017.

Time of Elizabeth - a period in the history of Russian art that has been getting mixed by reviews. However, this is the era associated with a brilliant flowering of Russian culture, when it got the development of different types and genres - architecture, painting, drawing, and collecting works of art, which was initiated by Peter the Great and continued by his daughter, Empress Elizabeth. The exhibition has collected more than 150 works of different artists who worked in the era of her reign. The basis of the exhibition consists of works by Georg Christoph Groot (1716-1749) - one of the most prominent representatives of "Rossica" (works of foreign artists who worked in Russia in the XVIII century), the 300th anniversary of whose birth is celebrated in 2016.

Groot actually became the founder of Russian portrait school of modern times. He had a significant influence on the work of leading Russian painters of the XVIII century – A. P. Antropov, D. G. Levitsky, F. S. Rokotoff. The exposition features about 150 works from the collection of the State Russian Museum and other museums in Russia - 40 paintings of domestic and foreign artists, more than 50 graphic works and 60 works of applied art - exhibits, each of which was clear evidence of the cultural life of Russia in 1740 - the beginning 1760s.