The illustrated book exhibition “The eternal Renaissance” runs in the Fine arts reading room (306), from 15 November to 14 December.
The Renaissance is the most important period in human history, a time of bold experiments, world tours and great geographical discoveries, the highest flowering of science and art, and the universality of the human person advocated by humanistic philosophy. The eminent art historian B. Whipper believed that "the Renaissance, one of the most interesting and valuable epochs in the history of mankind, is a synonymous with personal freedom, perfection in art, beauty in life, harmony of physical and spiritual qualities."
Freeing the creative powers of mankind, the era gave the world greatest painters, sculptors and architects, such as Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, the titans of the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, representatives of the Venetian school Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, as well as the brightest creators of the Northern Renaissance Dürer, Bosch, Breughel, Holbein and brothers van Eyck. The work of these great masters was the true source of the further development of civilization.
The exhibition presents all the most important periods of the epoch – Protorenessans, Early, High and Late Renaissance. Exhibited Albums of reproductions dedicated to the Italian and Northern Renaissance with the descriptions of the era in a broader historical context are presented.
The exposition features numerous reproductions by painters, sculptors and architects of the epoch, including Brunelleschi’s majestic dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Giotto’s frescoes in the Chapel del Arena in Padua, The Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael’s Madonna, and Michelangelo’s sublime, full of humanity and forgiveness painting of the Sistine Chapel...
The exhibition also presents biographies of the representatives of the Renaissance, including The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times by Giorgio Vasari, the founder of the history of art.
More than 50 documents are on display: albums of reproductions, books and cards.
Contact: (+375 17) 293 27 53.
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