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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nOn November 27, 2018, Pope Francis of Rome visited the exhibition of outstanding works of Russian art from the collection of the Tretyakov State Gallery and a number of other museums in Russia. Held under the theme \u2018Pilgrimage of Russian Art: From Dionysius to Malevich\u2019 the exhibition is shown in the Vatican\u2019s Braccio di Carlo Magno in St. Peter\u2019s Square. It has become a response of Russian museums to the Roma Aeterna exhibition of masterpieces of Italian religious art, which was held with great success at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in late 2016-early 2017.<\/p>\n
Presented are 54 masterpieces of Russian art beginning from 15th<\/sup>-century icons to abstract painting of the 20th<\/sup> century. The works of art are arranged in such a way that old icons and 19-century realism masterpieces could \u2018be in dialogue\u2019 with each other on the basis of unexpected but obvious analogies. Thus the exposition shows that Russian art has been marked with the same cultural and spiritual constants through centuries.<\/p>\n A special place is given to \u2018Crucifixion\u2019 a great work of Russian iconography \u2018by Dionysius (c. 1440-1502), a disciple of St. Andrew Rublev. Its exposition in the Vatican has become a sign of the Russian Orthodox Church\u2019s gratitude for the brining of parts of the honorable relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which are kept in Bari, in 2017 to Moscow and St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n According to the Vatican press service, it was a private visit by Pope Francis; it lasted for 40 minutes. The head of the Roman Catholic Church was accompanied by Tretyakov Gallery Director, Zelfira Tregulova and Vatican Museums Director, Barbara Jatta.<\/p>\n Pope Francis evaluated as outstanding the presented Russian icons, especially Dionysius\u2019s \u2018Crucifixion\u2019 and the 15-century icons by Novgorod masters. Among the works of Russian painters, he was most impressed by canvases made on religious topics by Repin, Ge, Ivanov, Kramskoy and others. The pope called the exhibition a unique and spiritually impressive exposition that has become \u2018a phenomenon of world culture\u2019.<\/p>\n It is noted in the Vatican that the Pope\u2019s visit to the art exhibition not only reflects his love for Russian culture but has also become a gesture of friendship towards Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n DECR Communication Service<\/em><\/p>\n Photos from Vatican Press Service<\/em><\/p>\n and Internet sources<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On November 27, 2018, Pope Francis of Rome visited the exhibition of outstanding works of Russian art from the collection of the Tretyakov State Gallery and a number of other museums in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":167318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}