The Pozhalostin Ryazan Regional and State Art Museum (russian: Рязанский государственный областной художественный музей имени И. П. Пожалостина) is one of the oldest
art museums in Russia. It houses about 12,000 items of
Russian and
Western Art, mainly paintings, graphics, sculptures, traditional arts and crafts, dating from the late 15th to the late 20th centuries. Its Western collection includes some works of the painters of the
Flemish, French, and
Italian schools, as well as porcelain items from English, German, and
French
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** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
manufacturers. A number of paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including several ancient
icons, represent the museum's Russian Art collection. The works of Ryazan artists (including traditional clothing, glass, clay toys, etc.)
occupy an important part of the ''exposition''.
History
The museum was found in 1913 as ''Prof. Ivan Pozhalostin Art and History Museum Society''. Among the members of the above-mentioned society were prominent local artists and other Ryazan
intellectuals. The endowment from some
Moscow painters as well as the items of Prof. Pozhalostin's private collection
formed the basis of the future museum.
The museum became municipal property in January 1915 and opened to the public on 23 March 1915. Its first catalogue included 72 items, in particular, approximately fifty notable works of Russian artists dating from the early 20th century. The museum occupied three rooms in the building of ''Romanov college'' (24 Seminarskaya street; currently that two-story redbrick building became a part of
Ryazan State University
The Ryazan State University named for S. A. Yesenin (russian: Рязанский государственный университет имени С. А. Есенина) is a university in Ryazan, Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It was founded in 1915. It ...
). In 1918, it was incorporated into the
Ryazan Governorate local history museum
A local museum or local history museum is a type of museum that shows the historical development of a place/region (local history) using exhibits. These museums usually maintain a collection of historic three-dimensional objects which are exh ...
. Twenty years later, the Department of Arts of the above-mentioned institution obtained its present name. As a part of the local museum – and later, as a separate organization – it occupied the two-story stone building of the Ryazan Consistory, inside the
Ryazan Kremlin. Since 1980, the museum resides in the former ''Ryumin mansion'' (belonged to the merchant and millionaire Ryumin in the 1st half of the 19th cent.).
Collections
Ancient Russian Art
The collection has been formed as a result of the expeditionary work of the museum's staff in the 1960s – 1970s.
A number of unique exhibits came from the Ryazan Diocesan Archives and the Ryazan Scientific Archive Commission Museum. Most of such items demanded some
restoration
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* Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage
** Audio restoration
** Film restoration
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...
.
The collection includes the Russian icons dating from the late of the 15th century; a few of them represent the local Ryazan school (e.g., those are two unique depictions of
Archangel Michael).
Most of the works, e.g., the collection of the wooden carved
Royal doors, date from the 17th to the 19th cent.
Russian painting, graphics, sculpture (XVII–XX cent.)
The largest and the most prominent collection of the museum. It began with the first exhibits donated by the Moscow painters. For the following decades, the collection expanded through the State museum fund, private collections,
acquisitions from contemporary artists. It represents the development of Russian visual arts, their stylistic mainstreams,
artistic movement
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s and personalities.
The museum owns a number of paintings by
Vladimir Borovikovsky,
Alexey Venetsianov,
Vasily Tropinin,
Alexei Savrasov
Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (russian: Алексе́й Кондра́тьевич Савра́сов) (May 24, 1830 – September 26, 1897) was a Russian landscape painting, landscape painter and creator of the ''lyrical landscape'' style ...
,
Vasily Surikov,
Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (russian: Илья Ефимович Репин, translit=Il'ya Yefimovich Repin, p=ˈrʲepʲɪn); fi, Ilja Jefimovitš Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine. He became one of the ...
,
Konstantin Korovin, as well as by
Abram Arkhipov,
Filipp Malyavin, whose life and work were influenced by Ryazan. Its collection includes some drawings by
Aleksander Orłowski,
Pyotr Sokolov,
Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.
Biography
Shishkin was born to a Russian me ...
,
Fyodor Vasilyev
Fyodor Alexandrovich Vasilyev (russian: Фёдор Александрович Васильев, 1850 – 1873) was a Russian Imperial landscape painter who introduced the lyrical landscape style in Russian art.
Biography
Fyodor Vasilyev ...
,
Valentin Serov,
Mikhail Vrubel,
Wassili Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; rus, Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter a ...
, other members of ''
Mir iskusstva'', of ''the
Blue Rose''. The museum holds a few works of such Soviet artists as
Ivan Shadr
Ivan Shadr (russian: Иван Шадр), pseudonym of Ivan Dmitriyevich Ivanov (russian: Ива́н Дми́триевич Ивано́в; — 3 April 1941) was a Russian/Soviet sculptor and medalist who took his pseudonym after his hometow ...
,
Alexander Kibalnikov Alexander Pavlovich Kibalnikov (; 22 August 1912 – 5 September 1987) was a Soviet sculptor.
Early life
Alexander Kibalnikov was born in Orekhovo, a settlement in the Don Host Oblast (now Volgograd Oblast).
Kibalnikov was a small child when his ...
,
Yevgeny Vuchetich.
Western painting and drawing (XVI–XIX cent.)
The collection, based on the receipts from the former
noble estates located in Ryazan Governorate (e.g. ones of the
Gagarin family
The House of Gagarin (russian: Гага́рин) is the name of a Russian princely family descending from sovereign rulers of Starodub-on-the-Klyazma.
Origins
The descendant of the Great Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, the Christianizer of Ru ...
), includes
some works of the painters of the
Flemish, French,
Italian, and other Western schools. The museum owns one of the two
easel works by
Giovanni Battista Crosato
Giovanni Battista Crosato (1686 – July 15, 1758) was an Italian painter of quadratura, active in the 18th century in Piedmont.
He was born in Venice, where he had likely his first training. By 1733 he had moved to Turin, where he was recruited ...
on public view in Russia, ''The Sacrifice of
Polyxena''. It holds several paintings by
Vincenzo Catena,
Francesco Guardi
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (; 5 October 1712 – 1 January 1793) was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of ...
,
Adriaen van Ostade,
Justus van Huysum
Justus van Huysum, also spelled Huijsum, (July 8, 1659 in Amsterdam – April 23, 1716 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Justus Van Huysum is the son of the decorative painter Jan van Huysum the Elder, who moved to Ams ...
,
Simon Vouet,
Philippe de Champaigne.
A few of watercolours by
Giacinto Gigante, and other artists represent Western drawing.
Applied arts
The collection includes examples of furniture, artistic porcelain, glass,
ceramic of Russian and Western manufacturers, such as
Imperial Porcelain Factory (Saint Petersburg), private
companies of ,
Prince Yusupov. There are several samples of artistic glass made by the leading manufacturers from Russia (18th – 20th cent.).
Sèvres and
Meissen
Meissen (in German orthography: ''Meißen'', ) is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrecht ...
porcelain production became the core of the Western part of the collection.
The museum holds only a few pieces of handmade furniture; the most noteworthy items are a Dutch carved
sideboard (17th cent.) and a Russian
bureau (the 1st third of the 19th cent.).
Ryazan traditional arts and crafts
Ryazan land is one of the ancient centers of Russian traditional
folk arts. The collection was created mainly after the expeditionary work of the museum's staff in the 1960s – 1970s. The collected items of the traditional folk costume, a complex artistic ''ensemble'', represent different types and techniques of patterned
weaving and
embroidery.
The museum holds a lot of works made by contemporary artisans, including the samples of
Mikhailov coloured embroidery,
Skopin ceramic, traditional clay toy.
Structure
Branches
Pozhalostin's House
Pozhalostin's House is a
house museum, located in Solotcha,
Ryazan, which was formerly home of
engraver,
academician . Opened in 1992, it holds many works of the artist and a lot of photographs dedicated to his life.
Viktor Ivanov and Ryazan Land Art Gallery
The gallery at 14 Pervomaysky avenue, Ryazan, opened before the 80th
anniversary
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of the Russian artist and academician, . Its collection includes over 600 of his works, in particular, the landscapes, portraits, drawings, related to the Ryazan period of his life.
Notes
External links
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