Event description
The works in this exhibition belong to the masters of the two schools of painting, Florence and Venice. Admiration for Antiquity, the plasticity of colour, the depiction of people with idealised beauty - these are the characteristics of the work of perhaps the most famous Florentine painter and innovator Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, 1445-1510). They are clearly visible in the work "Our Lady with the Child and the Angels". The masters of the Venetian School were renowned for their colour contrasts, dynamism and realistic depiction of people. It was the Venetian School paintings that were the most popular and coveted works of art in the courts of rulers and nobles in the 15th and 16th centuries, and for which monarchs from Portugal to Poland, Lithuania and Sweden competed. The exhibition features works by the most prominent painters of the Venetian School in Middle Eastern Europe: Titian (Tiziano, Tiziano Vecellio, 1488/1490-1576) and his workshop's Allegory of Love, the workshop's Our Lady and Child, St. The painting of the Child with the Mother of God, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Baptist. The canvases include "Diana and Callista" by Paris Paschalinus Bordone (1500-1571), "Diana and Callista" by Paris Paschalinus Bordone (1500-1571), and "Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar" by Palma the Younger (Palma il Giovane, real name: Jacopo Negretti, 1548-1628). The exhibition will be open at the Palace of the Grand Dukes (Cathedral a. 4, Vilnius) until 23 February 2025.