In the estate “Arkhangelsk” will open the first festival of Italian culture
MOSCOW, 5 Mar — RIA Novosti. The first festival of Italian culture “Tiepolo-fest” opens in the Museum-estate “Arkhangelsk” on Sunday, reported the press service of the festival.
“In 2017, the Museum-estate “Arkhangelsk” and the Italian Institute of culture has established a new festival as an acknowledgement of the unique significance of the works of Italian architects, painters, sculptors, writers, collected in the Archangel Prince Nikolay Borisovich Yusupov and his descendants”, — stated in the message.
The festival will open on the day of birth the largest of the Italian Rococo artist Giovanni Tiepolo, whose works are represented in the Museum collection.
In the festival will be the showing of the paintings of Tiepolo “the Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra and Banquet of Cleopatra”, the presentation of editions of Torquato tasso’s poem “Jerusalem delivered” from the library of Prince Yusupov, concerts the outstanding Italian violinist Domenico Nordio and well-known Russian musicians Iraida Yusupova, Alisa Gitsba, Philip Chizhevsky, the ensemble “Soloists of Baroque”, “La Stravaganza”.
Also the audience will be able to see an exhibition of landscapes by young artists “Opus Practicum. Inspired By Tuscany”. Public lectures on Italian art read Mariam Nikoghosyan, Evgenia Shidlovskaya, Constantine, Bolenko and Hope Dozorova.
The Arkhangelskoye estate has gained prominence in the early nineteenth century, when the Russian nobleman, statesman and art collector Prince Nikolay Borisovich Yusupov (1751-1831) purchased in the vicinity of Moscow estate with the architectural-Park ensemble in the style of Le nôtre and posted here is a collection of Western European painting, sculpture, rich library, made a theater.
The Yusupov collection was formed over several decades from the beginning of the 1770’s to the late 1820’s, the Prince enjoyed the confidence of Empress Catherine II and her job has acquired numerous works of art for the Royal collection. So, it was he who brought to Russia the drawings of Italian masters on the basis of which the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg was created copies of the Vatican’s Raphael loggias.
The festival will take place from March 4 to 12.