The Museum "The House of Icon and Painting named after S. P. Ryabushinsky" is a private museum in Moscow , in the collection of which more than 2000 exhibits of works of ancient icon painting , medieval Western European painting and encaustic are presented [1] [2] . Since June 2013, the building has been closed for reconstruction, the museum itself has been conducting cultural, educational and research activities [3] .
| Museum "House of Icon and Painting named after S. P. Ryabushinsky " | |
|---|---|
 Museum during the exhibition "Russian Modern" | |
| Established | year 2009 |
| Founder | Igor Vladimirovich Vozyakov |
| Director | Nadezhda Vladimirovna Gubina |
| Site | rmuseum.org |
History
The Museum "Icon House" was opened on September 18, 2009 [1] in a mansion at 4 Spiridonovka at the initiative of collector Igor Vozyakov [4] . The museum’s collection was based on its extensive collection of paintings and icons, among which were bought from an unknown owner for allegedly $ 20 million [4] [5] and personal relics of Emperor Nicholas II [5] returned from Holland : banners with images of the “ Kazan Mother of God ” and “ Of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky ”, created at the beginning of the XX century [5] [6] . Previously, the icons made up the decoration of Theodore Cathedral in Tsarskoye Selo , closed in the 1930s, after which they were probably sold abroad through the All-Union organization "Antiques" [1] [5] [6] .
Initially, the museum was called the "Icon House". He became the second in Russia after the Private Museum of the Russian Icon of Mikhail Abramov, a private collection of icons that was constantly open to the public [2] . In 2012, the museum changed its name to "The House of Icon and Painting named after S. P. Ryabushinsky." One of the issues of the Russian Icon magazine in 1914 reported [7] that the owner of the mansion on Malaya Nikitskaya , entrepreneur and philanthropist Stepan Pavlovich Ryabushinsky plans to open an icon museum in his house. War and revolution prevented Ryabushinsky from opening a museum - in 1917 he emigrated to Italy, from where he never returned. His collection of icons has been nationalized and divided between state museums. In 2012, the great-grandson of Stepan Ryabushinsky, Stefano Ryjoff, who lives in the Italian commune of Mujo , agreed to use the name of his great-grandfather in the name of the new museum [7] .
Collection
The collection of icons includes works of the 15th - beginning of the 20th century. The collection contains the works of various icon-painting centers of Russia and famous art workshops, signature images with the names of masters. Among the works of old masters of Italy, Spain and Flanders, art historians distinguish several works [1] .
The image "The Holy Family with the Baby John the Baptist", performed around 1516-1517 by the Italian artist Sebastiano del Piombo . The canvas “Madonna and Child” of the 1630s by artists Gerard Zegers and Jan Brueghel the Younger is a repetition of the plot of the painting by Rubens and his workshop [1] .
Among the works of the XVII-XVIII centuries, the collection is dominated by icons created on the territory of the Russian North - Obonezhye , Kargopol , Pomerania , the Northern Dvina basin ( Veliky Ustyug , Arkhangelsk ) [1] .
The painting "The Holy Family with the Baby John the Baptist." Around 1516-1517. Italy. Sebastiano del Piombo .
Icon "St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker (Court)". The first third of the XVIII century, Novgorod.
Icon "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker." The end of the XVI century, Vologda.
Fayumsky portrait of an unknown. The end of II - the beginning of the IV century.
Another group of icons is a painting of the Volga region, mainly Yaroslavl and Kostroma lands. The art of the leading icon-painting cooperatives working in this region in the third quarter of the 17th century is adjoined by the image “Saint John Chrysostom , with the Trinity of the New Testament and 15 hallmarks of life”, including a detailed life cycle from Christmas to the burial of the saint [1] .
Art historians mark the icon "St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Dvorishchensky), with the upcoming noble princes Mstislav and Anna Novgorod and 12 hallmarks of the Tale" of the first quarter of the XVIII century. Images with such a detailed cycle illustrating the Legend of finding the miraculous icon - the main shrine of the St. Nicholas and Dvorishchensky Cathedral in Novgorod , were still not known [1] .
Projects and Exhibitions
The museum is experimenting with unusual formats: from involving famous actors and public figures in the exhibition (the “House Icon of Stars” exhibition) [8] [9] [10] to arranging expositions for blind and visually impaired visitors , when all exhibits, including a relief icon XVII century "Virgin of Vladimir ", visitors could touch, and materials for exhibits were duplicated in Braille [11] [12] [13] .
The museum organizes thematic exhibitions, for example, dedicated to the Romanov family [14] , Russian Art Nouveau [15] , fakes of icon painting and painting [16] [17] [18] , as well as illuminating the activities of the Anti-Religious Commission (ARC) in Soviet Russia [19] [ 20] [21] .
Most of the projects are implemented within the walls of the mansion on Spiridonovka, but large-scale visiting exhibitions have been organized three times: at the Belgorod Art Museum [22] and twice in Serbia [23] .
- “Atheists.” Was there Christ? ” October 28 - November 08, 2009 The exhibition on the activities of the Anti-Religious Commission (ARC) in Soviet Russia collected evidence of anti-religious propaganda in Soviet Russia in the 1920s: mutilated icons, anti-religious leaflets and posters, newspapers “Was there Christ?”, Magazines of the “Union of Militant Atheists ” and other exhibits [ 19] [20] [21] .
- "House icon of the stars." December 16 - 23, 2009 Famous actors and public figures provided for the temporary exposition the icons most dear to them. The exhibition was attended by: E. S. Radzinsky , V. V. Glagolev , Spouses of the Karachentsov: N. P. Karachentsov and L. A. Porgina , A. Babenko , Y. Poplavskaya and others [8] [9] [10] .
- “Forgotten Masterpieces” June 02 - 28, 2010 Photo exhibition of the destroyed masterpieces of architecture of the Russian province of the 16th – 19th centuries [24] [25] .
- “Russia in lacquer miniature” July 01 - September 05, 2010. Exhibition of masterpieces of lacquer miniatures of all 4 Russian schools - Palekh , Kholuy , Mstora , Fedoskino [26] [27] .
- “Spiridon of Trimyphuntus. Icons - Byzantium, Greece, Athos from church, museum and private collections . " September 18 - December 25, 2010 Exhibits for participation in the exhibition provided: The Church and Archaeological Office of the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy, the Great Ascension Temple at Nikitsky Gate, Danilov Stauropegic Monastery , the largest Russian collectors [28] .
- "Miraculous images of Our Lady of Patroness of the Russian Land." February 18 - 28, 2011 Visiting exhibition of the museum in the Royal Palace in Belgrade at the invitation of the royal family of Serbia.
- Exposition for the blind and visually impaired visitors . September 18, 2011 - May 15, 2013 "Touching is allowed." For the first time in Russia, the museum opened a permanent tactile exhibition “The Road to the Icon” for blind and visually impaired visitors [11] [12] [13] .
- "Legacy of Rev. Nile . " October 23 - November 13, 2011 Exhibition of shrines of the Nile Desert and exhibits from the museum "Heritage of the Rev. Nile" [29] .
- Restoration of a wooden sculpture of the Rev. Nile Stolobensky . November 2011 - June 2012. Under the auspices of the museum, a sculpture was restored of the Rev. Nile Stolobensky, the 18th century from the Nilo-Stolobensky desert [30] .
- "Masterpieces of fake or N. Kh." . April 18, 2012 - June 10, 2012 Museum staff collected paintings and icons that turned out to be qualitatively fabricated fakes. In the early 90s of the XX century, paintings were bought with expert opinions confirming their authenticity and authorship of famous artists of the late XIX - early XX centuries: I.K. Aivazovsky , N.K. Roerich , B.M. Kustodiev , K.A. Korovin , A.P. Bogolyubov , L.F. Lagorio , G.I.Semiradsky . Twenty years later, new examinations showed that the canvases were fake. Many were created at the end of the 20th century [16] [17] [18] .
- “Romanovs. The Fall of the Dynasty . ” December 12, 2012 - May 15, 2013. Exhibition dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. Most of the items were exhibited for the first time. The exposition presented personal items of members of the Imperial family. Archival documents, works of suppliers of the Imperial and Grand Ducal courts. For the first time, lifetime portraits of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, a painting by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova , the chair of Tsarevich Alexei , jewelry from the Winter Palace and other rare exhibits were exhibited [14] .
- "The Power of FAITH . " January 25 - February 20, 2012 Exhibition of paintings by Maria Vishnyak and the Orthodox sculpture of Alexander Smirnov.
- Russian Modern . December 12, 2012 - May 15, 2013. A large-scale exhibition of works of art of the era of Russian Art Nouveau. The exposition included: icon painting, painting, jewelry, sculpture, interior and household items, costume. Among the exhibits were the works of V. Vasnetsov , M. Nesterov , M. Vrubel , V. Kotarbinsky and their followers, jewelry from workshops-suppliers of the Imperial Court [15] .
- “From the dimensional icon to the Last Judgment. An icon in the life of an Orthodox person . ” May 25 - July 31, 2013 Sombor , Serbia . Municipal City Museum. The museum has provided 70 rare icons for the exhibition, dating from the 16th to the beginning of the 20th centuries [23] .
- “The Russian Icon of the 17th - Early 20th Centuries” September 10, 2013 - November 11, 2013 Belgorod Art Museum . An exhibition of folk type icons created in the workshops of rural artisans of various regions of Russia until the beginning of the 20th century. 129 exhibits from the museum funds took part in the exhibition [22] .
- “From the Monk Sergius of Radonezh to the Monk Seraphim of Sarov. Monastic traditions in Russian art ” July 9, 2013 - October 9, 2014 Two icons from the museum’s collection are presented at the exhibition of the Central Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art named after Andrei Rublev [31] .
- “Faces of Russia: from an icon to painting” January 25, 2016 - January 29, 2016 Nineteen exhibits from the museum’s collection took center stage in the exhibition “Faces of Russia” in the State Duma of the Russian Federation [32] .
See also
- Museum of Russian Icon
- Central Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art named after A. Rublev
- State Museum of the History of Religion
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Olga Nikolskaya, Yana Zelenina. Icon House on Spiridonovka and its collection . Our Heritage Magazine (2011). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Tatyana Markina. Four floors of spirituality . Kommersant (September 21, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ About the House of Icon Museum (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment December 8, 2014. Archived on August 31, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 An unknown person paid $ 20 million For the banners of the last Russian emperor . NEWSru.com (August 20, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 George Stepanov. Unique shrines of the Romanovs brought to Russia . BBC (September 4, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Banners of the Romanov family returned to Russia . REGIONS.RU/first news of the FEDERATION ”(September 7, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 History of Stepan Pavlovich Ryabushinsky (Unavailable link) . Museum of the Icon Ryabushinsky. Date of treatment December 8, 2014. Archived December 9, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 House icons of stars . Komsomolskaya Pravda (December 17, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Icons of Nikolai Karachentsov were given to the exhibition . LifeNews (December 17, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 An exhibition of icons from the collections of Russian celebrities held in Moscow . Interfax (December 17, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 House of the Icon . Mosoblpress.ru. Date of treatment October 27, 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 In Moscow, an exposition of icons for the blind opened . Vatican Radio (September 20, 2011). Date of treatment October 27, 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 It is allowed to touch exhibits with hands; photo report about the exhibition for blind visitors . Orthodoxy.Ru . Date of treatment October 27, 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 The newspaper "Century": The Tsar is crying - all Russia will cry
- ↑ 1 2 Exhibitions "The Fall of the Dynasty" and "Russian Modern" opened in the capital's museum "House of Icons" (video report) . TV channel "Culture" (December 27, 2012). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Tatyana Markina. The exhibition "Masterpieces of fake" will open in the "House of Icons" . Kommersant (April 12, 2012). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Julia Aleksashina. Van Gogh as brand new . The newspaper Trud (July 27, 2012). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Masterpiece fakes (video report) . Russia TV Channel (July 3, 2012). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 An exhibition of “wounded” icons opened in Moscow (inaccessible link) . Evening Moscow (October 29, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014. Archived December 20, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 An exhibition of desecrated icons Opened in Moscow . Metro International (October 30, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 In Moscow, an exhibition of anti-religious posters of the Soviet era and desecrated icons Opens . Interfax (October 28, 2009). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Anna Violin. An exhibition of ancient icons open in the Belgorod Museum . Russian newspaper (September 6, 2013). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 A unique exhibition of Russian icons be held in Serbia . The magazine "Thomas" (May 7, 2013). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Recent evidence of unique architectural monuments . TV channel "Culture" (June 17, 2010). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ On June 2, a photo exhibition of unknown architectural monuments of the Russian province of the 16th – 19th centuries, “Forgotten Masterpieces” , Will open . The magazine "Thomas" (June 1, 2010). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ A unique exhibition has opened in Moscow . Komsomolskaya Pravda (July 1, 2010). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ "Lacquer piece" of domestic history . TV channel "Culture" (July 2, 2010). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Spiridon of Trimyphuntus at Spiridonovka . Vashdosug.ru. Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Nilo-Stolobenskaya deserts brought to Moscow their collection (Inaccessible link) . Theologian. Ru. Date of treatment October 31, 2011. Archived March 5, 2016.
- ↑ Restoration of a wooden sculpture by Nile Stoloben (video report) . TV channel "Union" (June 17, 2012). Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Opening of the exhibition “From Rev. Sergius of Radonezh to Rev. Seraphim of Sarov. Monastic traditions in Russian art ” (Inaccessible link) . The Central Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art named after Andrei Rublev (July 9, 2014). Date of treatment December 8, 2014. Archived December 21, 2014.
- ↑ Museum exhibition in the State Duma (Unavailable link) . Museum "House of Icon and Painting named after SP Ryabushinsky" (February 1, 2016). Date of treatment February 14, 2016. Archived on February 8, 2016.
Literature
- Russian icon of the 15th-20th centuries: Russian icons of the 15th-20th centuries: from the collection of Igor Vozyakov. M .; SPb. , 2009.
- Russische Iconen: Russian Icons: Collectie Vozyakov. Amersfoort, 2007.
- Nikolskaya O., Zelenina Y. House of the Icon on Spiridonovka and its collection. // Our Heritage No. 97/2011. - S. 144.
- Materials of the conference "Russian Modern". M. , 2014.
- “From the dimensional icon to the Last Judgment. An icon in the life of an Orthodox person. ” Exhibition catalog. Sombor. 2013.
- Ponomareva S. From Ryabushinsky to Vozyakov. // Own. Magazine of Nikita Mikhalkov No. 60/2013.