Exhibition of paintings by Raphael opens in Moscow today

Visitors Pushkin Museum for the first time will see eight masterpieces of the great Italian painter Raphael exhibition "Raphael. The poetry of the image", which opened today and runs until 11 December.

The exhibition consists of eight paintings and three graphic drawings, painted by the great master, which are typically stored in a variety of galleries and museums in Italy, mainly in the Uffizi Gallery and the National Art Gallery in Bologna.

Despite the modest number of exhibits (only 11 paintings), the exhibition is rightly called the most ambitious: Rafael earlier works have appeared in Russia, but at the same time to such an extent - never. The curators of the exhibition were the curator of Italian painting in the Pushkin Museum Victoria Markova Cabinet and Head of drawing and engraving the Uffizi Gallery Marcia Fayette.

"The exhibition is very important because it is the first, because it should help to understand Raphael. It is very important that it is for all of us to be reminded that we have to respect, to love, to experience and not to forget their own classics, for which Rafael was a beacon "- Victoria Markov said at the opening ceremony.