The Ukrainian portrait of the Baroque period allows us to see the panorama of the era, because its heroes were magnates, Kozak officers, shliakhta (gentry), and clergy. Many portraits of that time have been preserved in museum collections, and even several family galleries or parts of them have survived-the princes Vyshnevetsky, the Kozak families Halahan, Darahan, and Razumovs’kyi -but in general, galleries in Ukraine were massively destroyed. The existence of a gallery of portraits of Kyiv metropolitans and archimandrites of the Kyiv Cave Monastery is perceived as a miracle.
Hundreds of portrait painters who learned their skills in monastery paint shops, craft workshops, at the courts of patrons, and in foreign academies left a mostly anonymous artistic legacy. As the end of the period approaches, the number of known artists increases, and it ends with the brilliant work of portrait painters associated with the Academies of Arts – Ostap Bilyavskyi, Volodymyr Borovykovskyi, and Dmytro Levytskyi.
At the lecture, we will discuss the evolution and richness of the portrait genre in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
🔸 Lecturer: Halyna Belikova, Head of the Department of Ancient Art at NAMU. Halyna Oleksiivna has been working in our museum for over 30 years, researching monuments from the Kyiv Rus period to the 18th century. The results of her scientific research formed the basis of dozens of professional publications and exhibition projects. For example, in 2004, NAMU hosted an exhibition of portraiture of the 16th and 18th centuries, which brought together 300 monuments from all over Ukraine. In 2018, the project “Apparition” was held, which presented all the monuments of the Brotherhood Monastery in the museum space for the first time ever since its destruction.
🔸November 10th (Friday) at 16:00
🔸 Price: full ticket – 180 UAH, discounted ticket (schoolchildren, students, pensioners) – 90 UAH.
🔸Register here.
📌 Unfortunately, for technical reasons, the museum is temporarily unable to accept card payments on the spot. At the moment, you can pay in cash or by card transfer.
📌 In the event of an air raid alert, we ask all visitors to immediately proceed to a shelter. The nearest shelters are located at Khreshchatyk Street, 4 (underground passage near the Dnipro Hotel) and at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti subway station.
📌 If less than 60 minutes of the event have passed at the time of the air raid alert, we will continue the lecture after the air raid is over or continue on another day. If the event lasted 60 minutes or more, it is considered to have taken place.
You can get to the museum through the service entrance located at the back of the building.
🖼 A fragment of a portrait of Metropolitan Demetrius of Rostov (Tuptal) is used on the cover. The second half of the eighteenth century. NAMU collection.
