Ivan Sablin, PhD, personal open lecture: "Giorgione paintings in the Hermitage collection"

On Wednesday, March 9 at 14.00 in White Hall of Russian Institute for Art History, senior research scientist I.D. Sablin, PhD (department of Fine Arts and Architecture, RIAH) will present his personal open lecture: “Giorgione paintings in the Hermitage collection.”

Every largest museum appears as a kind of author’s subjective works selection, which create a platform for the oeuvre study of diversity artists. Such a collection could distort, as well as transform in a positive way the standpoints to their oeuvre, has a place in different sources as follows: scientific books and other publications, lectures on art history, searchable on the Internet – which are no less subjective, but perhaps more complete or variational. Moreover,  in contrast to any other repository of art treasures (which may be a book, website e.t.c.) the museum is attached to the specific place, and consequently, to the circumstances of the life of every man indifferent to art. And it does not matter, if he lives in one or other city, or may be prone to frequent movements in space (then his map is simply be more intensive covered by these significant places – which are museums). The collectors subjective view, reflected as part of a museum collection, becomes its subjective views and attitudes to various events in the history of art. What are the museum specific offerings to our knowledge of a particular artist – for example, the mysterious figure of the High Renaissance Giorgio from Castelfranco, the Venetian painter? How does the number of its works, which are available in almost daily basis within the our main Museum of Western Art, are effects on representation of the specific artist within epoch, all those art in general, which consciously or unconsciously has formed in a mind of contemporary city inhabitant – the every Museum visitor? What can the professional art critic learn from such a Giorgione paintings collection, what kind of polemic with it, he can start, defending his or her own opinion on the work of art? Let us try to answer these questions.

All are invited to attend.