The exhibition with Rafael and Caravaggio from Vatican will open at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

The exhibition "Roma Aeterna. Masterpieces of the Vatican Pinakothek", where you can see works by Raphael and Caravaggio will open at the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane on 25 November. This at a press conference in Moscow, said Tuesday the director of the museum Zelfira Tregulova.

"This is a unique situation where the Vatican museums offer 40 works of the exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery when that Russian curators have played a very active role in shaping the concept of this exhibition and its staff", - she said. Tregulova stressed that the Vatican Museums previously not given this level of work and in such amount for a single exhibition.

Paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, Bellini, Guercino, Pietro Perugino and Guido Reni very rarely leave the Vatican, so they display in the Tretyakov Gallery will be one of the most significant events in a series of European exhibitions. In response, the Tretyakov Gallery in 2017 was sent to the Vatican paintings by Russian artists of XIX - early XX century, connected with the evangelical and biblical scenes.

"Tretyakov Gallery held earlier exhibitions from foreign museums, but more than ever, it did not take such a representative collection of foreign museum This is an unprecedented event and a case where a number of masterpieces, to see that people are coming to Rome, leaving the halls of the Vatican Museums.", - said director museum.

At the same time in March, the project is under threat due to lack of funding, has helped its implementation fund Alisher Usmanov "Art, Science, and Sports", with the support of which previously held the exhibition "William Turner" and "Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde" in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin.

Tregulova told that on Tuesday received in the online sale of tickets for the exhibition, visiting sessions will be every 30 minutes. "We can not, given the incredible value of the works that will come to us at this exhibition chasing giant attendance We will be dispensed to let viewers." - He concluded Tregulova and encouraged to buy tickets in advance.

November 25, 2016 - February 19, 2017