Ryabushinsky Museum of Icons and Paintings

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]

Ryabushinsky Museum of Icons and Paintings
Location within Moscow
Established2009
LocationMoscow, Russia
Coordinates55.7587°N 37.5958°E / 55.7587; 37.5958
TypeArt museum
Websitermuseum.org

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" (16th 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.

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 2012 exhibition focused on fraud, with the goal of drawing attention to the problem of forgery on the Russian art market.[5]

See also
  • The Private Museum of Russian Icon

References
  1. Nikolskaya, Olga. "Icon House on Spiridonovka Street and its collection". http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/. External link in |website= (help)
  2. "Впервые «Человеком года-2011» на Украине стал российский меценат". http://www.sdelanounas.ru/. External link in |website= (help)
  3. "Ольга Никольская, Яна Зеленина. Дом Иконы на Спиридоновке и его коллекция". www.nasledie-rus.ru. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  4. "Ольга Никольская, Яна Зеленина. Дом Иконы на Спиридоновке и его коллекция". www.nasledie-rus.ru. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  5. "'My precious fakes': Russian businessman shows off forged art". RT English. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
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