Titian's exhibition at the Pushkin Museum: an overview

In the summer of this year, at the end of June, Titian's exhibition opened in the Pushkin Museum. Her work was planned to be completed at the end of September, but because of the extreme excitement of visitors and giant queues that began to accumulate at the entrance, they decided to extend it until early October. What exactly did art historians demonstrate to Muscovites and visitors to the city? In total, eleven paintings of one of the most amazing and mysterious Renaissance painters were exhibited. But each of them is unique not only because it belongs to the brush of Titian. From different cities of Italy , these paintings were brought in before they got to the Pushkin Museum. An exhibition similar to this one can be said to have never existed before.

More than four hundred thousand people looked in Moscow pictures, for which it would have to go round museums almost all of Italy. Almost all these works are in small towns - one by one. Before appearing in Moscow, these paintings were shown in Rome in the famous Quirinal Palace. However, statistics show that they caused less interest than in Russia. Titian's exhibition at the Pushkin Museum opens with the work "Madonna and Child" from the Bergamo Museum, created in 1507. This is one of the earliest works of the painter. It is said that the image of the Mother of God with the divine child (which is also called by the name of Count Lochis) was written by him at the age of eighteen when he was still influenced by the style of Giorgione.

The mysterious painting "The Baptism of Christ" is also a landmark for the artist. Titian's exhibition at the Pushkin Museum allows the viewer to see a strange man in black robes, who is watching the main stage. On his hand - two wedding rings, one of which is a sign of data given to them in secret vows. Perhaps this is the customer of the canvas. Whatever it was, but this work already has all the characteristics characteristic of Titian, including the so-called "sfumato" effect.

The image of a young girl, already experienced in passion, combining innocence and sensuality, you can admire the painting "Flora." Already here we see a typical "Titian" woman - strange and attractive. Such images became muse for artists of the next generation, for example Rembrandt. Titian's exhibition at the Pushkin Museum opens another such face for us. "Beauty" - in this later picture we see the same golden-haired type of an unknown lady in rich blue robes. In addition, the exhibition presents three more portraits, in which the gift of the artist embodied the unique transfer of the structure of the fabric, facial features and at the same time - deep psychologism.

Since the artist loved the fashionable themes in the Renaissance related to the mythology of antiquity, Titian's exhibition in Moscow provided the audience with two canvases of this kind - "Danae" and "Venus, which ties Amura eyes". On the first topic, the artist wrote several variations, one of which is in the Hermitage. The picture exhibited in Moscow was created by the order of the Spanish king. The second picture - playful and at the same time pacified, written with an inimitable sense of color and light with large strokes - is considered one of the tops of the artist's work. And, finally, Titian's exhibition in Moscow ends with two works of religious themes - "Annunciation" and "Crucifixion". The last work is a part of the altar made for the Dominican church in Ancona. The tragic spectacle of suffering and hope is conveyed here by the play of color, shadow and light. And the connection of times is expressed in the figure of St. Dominic, who fell to the crucifixion. Previously, the picture outside Italy was not exhibited.