Ryabushinsky Museum of Icons and Paintings
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| Established | 2009 |
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| Location | Moscow, Russia |
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| Type | Art museum |
| Website | rmuseum.org |
The Rybushinsky Museum of Icons and Paintings is a private museum with a collection of more than 2,000 items, comprising Medieval West European paintings and encaustics.[1]
The museum started from an exhibition in Amersfoort, Netherlands organised by Igor Vozyakov, a Russian entrepreneur and collector, maecenas, who donated to Ukraine an ancient icon "Protection of the Holy Virgin" (XVI century).[2] The museum opened in 2009 in Moscow[3] with an exhibition entitled "Godlessness". It showed the early days of Communism and displaying photos of desecrated churches and slashed icons.
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Collection
The collection includes portraits by Faum, and icons ranging from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, covering iconography centers of Russia, Italy, Spain, Flemish Belgium and Flanders masters and cultural heritage pieces.[4] It is the world's largest private icon museum.
Exhibitions
The museum held a 2015 exhibition focused on fraud, with the goal of drawing attention to the problem of forgery on the Russian art market.[5]
See also
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