Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts: Rodin to Picasso

From 6 March to 6 April 2017, the Georgian National Museum’s Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts will hold an exhibition called "Masterpieces from Museum of Fine Arts Collection."

The exhibition showcases unique masterpieces of Georgian and world art preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, which include works by: Bernardo Daddi, Lucas Cranach (Elder), Guido Reni, Jan Steen, Jacob Van Ruisdael, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Vassily Kandinski, Robert Falk, Niko Pirosmanashvili, Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze.

For example, there is the Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) painting ‘Love Scene’ and the bronze ‘Eternal Springtime’ sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1849-1917).

There is also ‘Family Feast’ by Steen Jan (1626-79) and Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973) portrait of Georgian artist Niko Pirosmanashvili, sketched during Pirosmani’s time in Paris.

I like the painting ‘Archangel Michael’ by Reni Guido (15-75-1642) and the 17^th century Italian Moiolica ceramics.

There are unique pieces of Georgian art, such as the small triptych of Virgin Mary from Ubisa (14^th century); The Apocalypse - Revelation of John the Divine; and 1^st-3^rd century belt buckles from Tchiatura.

There is a cover-page of a Quran manuscript designer by the Iranian caligrapher Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Tabrizi in 1845-1846, and the leather-bound 1989 Bible used by Bishop Tarasi Kandelaki.

On display are the pieces of 4^th century pottery found in the Sairkhe archaeological site in Georgia.

The exhibition will showcase masterpieces that have not been presented to the general public in one collection before.

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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