The Radishev State   Art Museum in Saratov

The Radishev State Art Museum in Saratov, one of  the country's oldest museums and the first open-door art exhibition in  provincial   Russia, was founded in 1877 , when a famous landscape painter Aleksei Bogoliubov (1824-1896), a grandchild of Alexander  Radishev, an outstanding  18th-century Russian enlightener and writer, presented his large collection to the town of Saratov.      The erection of the museum  building, designed by a Petersburg  architect I.Schtrom, was sponsored by the municipality of the town.  The stone-laying ceremony took place on May 1, 1883, and the  Radishchev Art Museum was opened to the public on June 29, 1885.  Long before the opening ceremony, the very creation of the  mpetusart museum had given a new  to the artistic life in Saratov.  In 1888 the Society of Fine Arts Admirers was organized with  a studio, where Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Pavel Kuznetsov,  Petr Utkin and Alexander Matveev, would-be well-known artists  of the "Saratov school", acquired their first professional skills.  All these masters were indisputably influenced by the collection  of the Radishchev museum. In 1897 the Bogoliubov  School  of Drawing was opened.    The collection of the museum  started from over 500 objects once belonging to Bogoliubov v.

Неизвестный итальянский художник.    Ангел с ребенком.XVII-XVIII    Unknown Italian Artist. Angel with a Child. !7th-18th  cent.    Неизвестный немецкий скульптор.    Мадонна с младенцем   Христом     и святая Анна.Кон.XIIIв.     Unknown German Sculptor    Madonna with  Infant Christ     and St.Anna.Late 13th     cent.

Неизвестный немецкий скульптор. Страсти  Господни.XVI        Unknown German Sculptor. The Passions of Our Lord.    16th cent.

Before the opening, however, many people showed a keen    interest in the future of the museum.     The works of old masters as well as the objects of    decorative art were turned over from both       the Imperial Hermitage and the Academy of Arts.       The first exhibition numbered about 2000 articles.    Within the next three yearsthe collection had  been enlarged    nearly twofold. It was enriched by paintings and graphic    works by Fedor Bronnikov,  who had given them to the museum.      Dozens of paintings were turned over to the museum by     artists and collectors:A.Kharlamov, A.Zvenigorodsky,         P.Tretiakov, F.Zhuravlev and others.

Выезд на охоту  Даув Симон Иоханнес Ван. Фландрия

Жертвоприношение Авраама   Неизвестный художник. Испания

Матиас Стомер(Стом). Поклонение  младенцу      Mathias Stomer (Stom). Adoration to the Infant Christ  Саратовский    государственный художественный        музей имени А.Н.Радищева

Неизвестный итальянский художник. Мадонна с  ангелами.XV     Unknown Italian Artist. Madonna with Angels. 15th  cent.  Саратовский    государственный художественный                        музей имени А.Н.Радищева

Отто Марсеус ван Скрик. Куст репейника    Otto Marseus van Schrieck. Burr Bush

Якоб Дюк. Игра в карты      Jacob Duck. Playing Cards

Карель Дюжарден. На ферме       Karel Dujardin. On the Farm

"Триумф Вакха" мастерской Дж. Вазари

Жан Батист Камиль Коро.   Замок Пьерфон. 1860-е гг.

Неизвестный итальянский(?) художник. Святое семейство. XV

Неизвестный немецкий художник.Мадонна с младенцем Христом     и святыми.Пятистворчатый складень.XV  . Unknown German  Artist.       Madonna with Infant Christ and Saints.  Five-Piece Folding Icon. 15th cent.

Unknown Flemish master of the 18th century    Саратовский    государственный художественный                                музей имени А.Н.Радищева

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