![]() The diligence and thoroughness that artists applied while working on their compositions reflected the attitude of the Dutch to their home interiors. And interiors here become an important part of the story. In their genre scenes, artists convey numerous stories about various members of the Dutch society, sometimes filling them with humor, or lyrical mood, or a shade of morality, turning the routine into sacral acts full of the sense of significance. Regardless of formal compositional similarities, each painting demonstrates a vibrant artistic individuality of its creator: peculiarities of style and of means of working with the space, differences in placing semantic accents and subtly disguised meanings. The works presented at the exhibition mainly date from the same period and perfectly illustrate not only the interest for depicting elegant burgher interiors but also the painters’ achievements in creating convincing perspective effects and optical illusions, as well as in communicating light and air environment and materials texture. During the 17th century, the interior scenes genre went through an artistic evolution, reaching its heyday in the beginning of the second half of the century. This exhibition represents a dialogue between the paintings created by such renowned masters as Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, Nicolaes Maes, Frans van Mieris I The Elder, Cornelis de Man and others, and arts and crafts objects widely used by the Dutch in everyday life. The exhibition includes works from the collection of the Pushkin Museum and other Russian museums and private collections, as well as paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest and Museum of Dordrecht. The concept is based on the idea of creating the image of the house, which was very important for the art of the Netherlands of the XVII century. ![]() Dutch Burgher House Interiors in the Age of Prosperity, which brings together in exhibition space great paintings and objects of decorative art. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents exhibition The Art of Living.
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