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The Passion of the Christ. Monuments of Russian ecclesiastical art of the XIV - early XX centuries
Mostra 27 gennaio − 11 aprile 2023
The exhibition depicts the last days of Christ's earthly life, when, according to the Gospel, he was betrayed by one of his disciples. The events of Holy Week - the taking into custody, the trial of Christ, the scourging and desecration of Christ, the Crucifixion - are represented in icons and works of arts and crafts, sculpture, book graphics and painting.
Among the exhibits are rare images revered as miraculous in pre-revolutionary Russia. One of them, The Kissing of Judas, was made famous in the Berlyukovskaya Hermitage near Moscow in 1829. The other is a monochrome depiction of Christ wearing a crown of thorns and commonly known as the "White Savior". According to legend, in front of a plaster bas-relief of the image of Christ in the Spaso-Vlakhernsky Monastery two blind girls had their eyes opened, after which the monastery icon workshop began to make picturesque copies in white and gray scale for the pilgrims.
The key subject of the Passion cycle - the Crucifixion of Christ - is represented in the monuments of the XV-XIX centuries. The same theme is devoted to the painting of the famous Russian artist M.V. Nesterov "Holy Week," which is on display at the exhibition, along with a preparatory sketch. Conceiving this canvas immediately after the revolution, the painter completed the work only in 1933. In the sketch the author surrounded the Crucifixion with a huge crowd of people, but in the final version, he left around the Cross only seven characters - Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, three women, one of whom is holding a child's coffin, a priest and a peasant. The painting reflected the artist's spiritual quest, his reflections on Russian history.
Exhibitors include the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Historical Museum, the Ostankino and Kuskovo Museum Reserves, the Moscow Theological Academy Museum "Church and Archaeological Cabinet", the Mikhail Abramov Museum of Russian Icons, and private collectors.
The curators of the exhibition are Chief Curator of the Andrei Rublev Museum O.V. Smirnova and Head of the Department of Registration and Acquisition of Collections S.A. Kiryanova.
Among the exhibits are rare images revered as miraculous in pre-revolutionary Russia. One of them, The Kissing of Judas, was made famous in the Berlyukovskaya Hermitage near Moscow in 1829. The other is a monochrome depiction of Christ wearing a crown of thorns and commonly known as the "White Savior". According to legend, in front of a plaster bas-relief of the image of Christ in the Spaso-Vlakhernsky Monastery two blind girls had their eyes opened, after which the monastery icon workshop began to make picturesque copies in white and gray scale for the pilgrims.
The key subject of the Passion cycle - the Crucifixion of Christ - is represented in the monuments of the XV-XIX centuries. The same theme is devoted to the painting of the famous Russian artist M.V. Nesterov "Holy Week," which is on display at the exhibition, along with a preparatory sketch. Conceiving this canvas immediately after the revolution, the painter completed the work only in 1933. In the sketch the author surrounded the Crucifixion with a huge crowd of people, but in the final version, he left around the Cross only seven characters - Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, three women, one of whom is holding a child's coffin, a priest and a peasant. The painting reflected the artist's spiritual quest, his reflections on Russian history.
Exhibitors include the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Historical Museum, the Ostankino and Kuskovo Museum Reserves, the Moscow Theological Academy Museum "Church and Archaeological Cabinet", the Mikhail Abramov Museum of Russian Icons, and private collectors.
The curators of the exhibition are Chief Curator of the Andrei Rublev Museum O.V. Smirnova and Head of the Department of Registration and Acquisition of Collections S.A. Kiryanova.
