Museum of Art of Georgia ( Georgian საქართველოს ხელოვნებიმუზეუმ ,ი, Sak'art'velos helnebis museumi) officially known as the "Museum of Fine Arts named after Shalva Amiranashvili ”( Georgian შალვა ამირანაშვილის სახელობის ხელოვნების მუზეუმი , Shalva Amiranashvili sahelobis helnebis museumi) is one of the most important museums in Georgia. It is located on Lado Gudiashvili Street 1, near Freedom Square ( Tavisuplebis Moedani ) in Tbilisi, in a collection of about 140,000 pieces of artwork from Georgian, Eastern, Russian and European art.
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History
The predecessor of the Museum of Art’s modern museum, the National Art Gallery , was created thanks to the efforts of educated young Georgian artists in Tbilisi on February 1, 1920 . The Central Museum of Fine Arts, which was opened in August 1923, grew out of this project. Additional exhibits were obtained from various small collections. At the end of 1932, the museum was moved to the XIII church in the Metekhi district.
In 1945, after a special agreement between the Soviet and French governments, numerous works of art that make up the national treasure of Georgia - manuscripts , metal products , jewelry , enamels , paintings - evacuated by the Georgian government in exile after the invasion of the Red Army in 1921 and preserved in emigration Equity Takaishvili - were returned to Tbilisi and added to the museum collection.
A prominent Georgian art critic Shalva Amiranashvili (after whom the museum is named) was the head of the museum for over thirty years and played an important role in the formation of the collection.
In 1950, the museum became officially called the Museum of Art of Georgia. Then he moved to the building, which is still occupied today - the building of the Tiflis Theological Seminary , built in 1838 in the classical style .
At the end of 2004, the Georgian Art Museum became part of a unified management system along with a number of other museums that formed the Georgian National Museum .
Collection
The spacious halls of the museum became the home for a permanent collection consisting of collections of Georgian, Eastern, Russian and European art.
The most important and large part of the museum’s collection is the collection of Georgian art, illustrating the development of national art culture over the centuries from ancient times to the present day. The second largest collection is the eastern, its most significant part is the collection of artworks of the Qajar period . It includes several miniatures of Persian court artists - portraits of beauties, shahs and nobles.
The museum often holds temporary exhibitions in other museums in Georgia and abroad.
Literature
Art Museum of Georgia Tbilisi, compiled and introduced by Tamaz Sanikidze (1985), Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad.