The Dawn of European Landscape Painting
The exhibition of Western European painting from the 17th–18th centuries is a continuation of a large-scale project dedicated to the development of the landscape genre in world art.
The exhibition brings together 30 works from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, created by masters from Italy, France, Holland, Flanders, and Germany. This was a time when landscape painting was finally established as an independent genre, and artists opened up the world of nature and architecture to viewers in new ways.
Visitors will see works by recognized European masters: the French Hubert Robert and Claude Lorrain, the Italians Gianantonio Guardi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, the Dutchman Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, the German Jakob Philipp Hackert, and others. Each work demonstrates not only artistic mastery but also national characteristics of landscape perception, allowing for a comparison of different traditions and styles.
The exhibition provides an opportunity to trace how the language of European landscape painting was formed and what forms it took at the dawn of its independent development.
