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Italy through the Eyes of Zinaida Volkonskaya
Exhibition August 5 − October 17, 2021
The State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno presents an exhibition "Italy Through the Eyes of Zinaida Volkonskaya.
The exhibition is dedicated to Rome and Zinaida Volkonskaya, the owner of the literary salon in Palazzo Poli, writer, poet, singer, composer and "queen of muses and beauty", as Alexander Pushkin called her, who lived in the Eternal City for the best years of her life. The lithographs on the drawings of Italian masters of the XVIII-XIX centuries by Antonio Lazzarini and Domenico Amici, the French artist Philippe Benois, engravings and books in the exhibition are provided by the Museum and Cultural Center "Integration" named after N. A. Ostrovsky. Printed graphic sheets, which can be seen at the exhibition, will help to mentally travel back in time and see Rome as it was in the middle of the XIX century and as it was seen by Zinaida Volkonskaya and her contemporaries.
The exhibition features a portrait of Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya (a reproduction of a drawing by Danse Romilly and Amelie Romilly from 1831, showing lines from a poem dedicated to the princess by Alexander Pushkin, the same one in which he calls her "the queen of muses and beauty"), lithographs Rome. Campo Vaccino" by Louis-Julien Jacotte (from the original by Philippe Benoit) from the 1830s, an illustration from Camille Bonnard's book "Costumes of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, fragments of the most authentic monuments of painting and sculpture, with historical and descriptive text", published in Paris in 1829, a portrait of Princess Volkonskaia, based on the original by Karl Brullov (a reproduction of the lithograph made in the 1830s) and much more.
Prepared according to the materials of the official website State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno.
The exhibition is dedicated to Rome and Zinaida Volkonskaya, the owner of the literary salon in Palazzo Poli, writer, poet, singer, composer and "queen of muses and beauty", as Alexander Pushkin called her, who lived in the Eternal City for the best years of her life. The lithographs on the drawings of Italian masters of the XVIII-XIX centuries by Antonio Lazzarini and Domenico Amici, the French artist Philippe Benois, engravings and books in the exhibition are provided by the Museum and Cultural Center "Integration" named after N. A. Ostrovsky. Printed graphic sheets, which can be seen at the exhibition, will help to mentally travel back in time and see Rome as it was in the middle of the XIX century and as it was seen by Zinaida Volkonskaya and her contemporaries.
The exhibition features a portrait of Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya (a reproduction of a drawing by Danse Romilly and Amelie Romilly from 1831, showing lines from a poem dedicated to the princess by Alexander Pushkin, the same one in which he calls her "the queen of muses and beauty"), lithographs Rome. Campo Vaccino" by Louis-Julien Jacotte (from the original by Philippe Benoit) from the 1830s, an illustration from Camille Bonnard's book "Costumes of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, fragments of the most authentic monuments of painting and sculpture, with historical and descriptive text", published in Paris in 1829, a portrait of Princess Volkonskaia, based on the original by Karl Brullov (a reproduction of the lithograph made in the 1830s) and much more.
Prepared according to the materials of the official website State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno.
