What is a Pinakothek? Tickets for the Vatican's Pinakothek in the Tretyakov Gallery

The Tretyakov Gallery hosted an exhibition entitled "Masterpieces of the Pinakothek of the Vatican". The time of its passage from February 19, 2016 to February 19, 2017. What is the Pinakothek, what is its significance for the inhabitants of Russia, you can learn from the article.

Meaning of the word

Pinakothek is a term that arose from the fusion of two Greek words. The first part of the term means "board", that is "picture", and the second - "storage". It's easy to guess what a Pinakothek is. In ancient Greece, the so-called room in which pictorial images were stored was called. Gradually, the meaning of the term changed somewhat.

What is the Pinakothek in the past and present?

In the Athenian Acropolis there was a building in the left wing of which were stored the paintings brought to the goddess Athena as a gift. They were located in several six-columned rooms. The collection consisted of various works with paintings. It was available for viewing by their citizens of Athens. The first catalog, which began the systematization of the repository, was created by Polemon of Ilios in the third - second century BC. E. There were pinnacles on the island of Samos, in Herion (the temple of Hera).

Citizens of Ancient Rome used the term to refer to a hall in which works of art were kept.

In the Renaissance, the term was used to designate collections of paintings that were open to visitors.

What is the Pinakothek today? The term is called art galleries. A good example is one of the most famous pinakothek world.

The Vatican's Vineyard

A collection of paintings by the Vatican appeared a couple of hundred years ago. Its founder is Pope Pius Six. After several decades, in 1797, most of the paintings were sent to Paris. The order for this was given to Napoleon. By 1815 the collection had returned to the Vatican. The decision to return the values was made at the Vienna Congress, which was held after the Napoleonic wars.

Works of painting did not have a permanent place of dislocation. They were transferred from one room to another, until they were placed in the wing of the Belvedere Palace. The public was able to see the Pinakothek only in 1908.

Twenty-four years later, a special building was built for the collection. The customer of the construction was Pius Pius the Eleventh, and architect L. Beltrami.

The collection consists of approximately 460 paintings, which are placed in eighteen rooms in chronological order. It contains works on religious themes. Basically it is the work of Italian masters.

Examples of halls:

• The first room shows the works of medieval schools of such masters as Nico Giovanni.
• The eighth room contains the works of Raphael Santi, including tapestries made according to his sketches.
• The tenth hall is represented by Raphael's school and Venetian painting.
• The twelfth room consists of Baroque paintings: the works of Nicolas Poussin, Caravaggio, Guido Reni.
• The eighteenth hall contains icons and mosaics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

You can visit the Pinakothek by purchasing a single ticket to enter the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums. The cost was 166 euros in 2016.

Since November 2016, the Vatican Pinakothek in the Tretyakov Gallery. What is represented in the brought collection and what is its significance for residents and guests of Moscow?

Masterpieces of the Vatican Pinakothek in the Tretyakov Gallery

The exhibition (the Vatican's Pinakothek) consists of forty paintings. These are the works of Giovanni Belini, Caravaggio, Raphael and other masters of the twelfth-eighteenth century. It will last until February 19, 2017.

Tickets to the Vatican's Pinakotheque will cost five hundred rubles per person. The exhibition visit is thirty minutes. You can buy tickets at any time on the personal website of the Tretyakov Gallery.

According to curator of the exhibition, Arkady Ippolitov, the exhibition is a kind of explanation of the idea "Moscow is the third Rome". In the Pinakothek the history of the Papal State is concentrated for seven centuries. The institution of the papacy, he said, is the link between European civilization and the ancient world.

The exhibition begins with the earliest icon of Rome, "Christ the Blessing," which dates back to the twelfth century. It was written under the influence of Byzantium. The icon contains in itself memories of a single church, showing a single root from which the art of Italy and Russia developed.