(September 2, 2016) “Raphael and the poetry of the face” – from September 12 to December 11 at the Museum of Fine Arts A.S. Pushkin in Moscow – is the first exhibition of works by Raphael of such magnitude ever built in Russia. The Pushkin Museum will host paintings and drawings on loan from Italian museums, mostly from the Uffizi Gallery and the Palatine Gallery (Palazzo Pitti). The exhibition is organized under the patronage of the Italian Embassy and the Ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini. Under the scientific direction of the Director of the Uffizi Gallery, Eike Schmidt, the exhibition is curated by Marzia Faietti (curator of the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi Galleries) for the Italian side, and Viktoria Markova (curator of Painting Italian the Pushkin Museum) on the Russian one. (Red)
