National Museum of Serbia

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National Museum of Belgrade
Established May 10, 1844
Location Republic Square, Belgrade, Serbia
Director Tatjana Cvjetićanin
Website www.narodnimuzej.org.yu

The National Museum (Serbian: Народни музеј/Narodni Muzej) in Belgrade, Serbia was founded in 1844. It is on Republic Square. Since it was founded, its collections have grown drastically. Today, the museum has a collection of over 400,000 objects including many foreign masterpieces. Currently, the museum is closed for renovation costing an estimated 26 million euros. It will get a new exterior and interior. One of the features of the exterior will be the introduction of a glass dome as the roof of the museum, which will allow a controlled amount of sunlight to enter the museum.

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[edit] The collections

[edit] Archaeology

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National Museum of Serbia owns a mummy of Egyptian priest from Ptolemaic period named "Nesmin".

[edit] Medieval Art

Miroslav's Gospel at exhibition Temple of Saint Sava
Miroslav's Gospel at exhibition Temple of Saint Sava

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The National Museum of Serbia has a large medieval collection including frescoes, paintings, relics, icons, books, gold jewelry, and ceramic vessels. The most important is Miroslav's Gospel Serbian manuscript from 1180, one of UNESCO's Memory of the World and Memory of the World Register collections.

The most famous frescoes[citation needed] are from Đurđevi stupovi, ca. 1175, Gradac, ca. 1275, Zica, ca. 1309 and others. The most famous icon is Madonna with the Child and the Annunciation, dated ca. 1370.

Two rare and valuable objects from Serbian history in the Collection are lead bullas of Stefan Nemanja and Stefan Stracimir, which testify to the highly developed diplomacy in the medieval Serbian State led by the Nemanjic dynasty.

[edit] Post-medieval and Modern Art

The International Art Collection has more than 1200 Paintings and sculptures. The first ten paintings have an estimated worth of at least 400 million euros, and the Art International Collection as a whole is worth more than 2 billion euros.[citation needed]

The Collection of Drawings and Prints of International Authors has 2,446 items and the Yugoslav Art Collection has more than 6,000 items, including 1,700 paintings of Serbian authors from 18th to 19th century and 3,000 paintings from 20th century. This does not include the Serbian Medieval Art Collection.[citation needed]

The newest acquisition is Amedeo Modigliani's ('Portrait of Man'), donated by an anonymous Serbian collector and valued at 25 million euros. The painting will be in museum's collection after museum's reconstruction.

[edit] Numismatics

The Numismatic Collection has more than 300,000 items (coins, medals, rings, seals...). The collection is divided into ten smaller assemblies from 5-6th century B.C., and includes a collection of coins issued by Philip II of Macedonian (359 – 336 B.C.) and Alexander the Great (336 – 323 B.C.).

[edit] Art Collections

[edit] The French Art Collection

The French Art Collection consists of more than 250 paintings, from the 16th to early 20th century. It includes Gauguin (2 paintings, 2 prints and 1 water-color), created between 1889 and 1899, Renoir (22 paintings and 50 graphic works), Hubert Robert, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Matisse, Monet, Cezanne, Degas (15 works), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Paul Signac, Maurice Utrillo, Vollard, Sébastien Bourdon, Auguste Rodin, Eugène Boudin, Georges Rouault, Pierre Bonnard, Pissarro, Callot, Odilon Redon, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Moreau, Honoré Daumier, Charles-François Daubigny, Eugène Carrière, Maurice de Vlaminck, Édouard Vuillard, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Valadon, Eugène Fromentin, Émile Bernard, Forain, Jean Cocteau, Rosa Bonheur, Marie Laurencin, etc.

'Tahitian Girl', by Gauguin
'Tahitian Girl', by Gauguin
'Bust man with soft hat', by Degas
'Bust man with soft hat', by Degas

[edit] The Italian Art Collection

The Italian Art Collection, consisting of more than 230 works of art, is famous for the creative production of individual masters and artistic workshops starting from the 14th to the 18th century. Titian, Tintoretto, Domenico Veneziano, Paolo Veronese, Palma il Vecchio, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Alessandro Magnasco, Vittore Carpaccio, Francesco Solimena, Lorenzo di Credi, Spinello Aretino, Luca Cambiasi, Francesco Guardi, Bernardo Strozzi, Francesco Bassano the Younger, Piranesi, Giovanni di Paolo, Giulio Carpioni, Girolamo Muziano, Amedeo Modigliani, etc.

'Adoration' by Lorenzo di Credi
'Adoration' by Lorenzo di Credi
Madonna and Child with Donor by Tintoretto
Madonna and Child with Donor by Tintoretto
'Madonna with child' by Domenico Veneziano c. 1445.
'Madonna with child' by Domenico Veneziano c. 1445.
'Nativite', by Lorenzo Veneciano,c. 1300
'Nativite', by Lorenzo Veneciano,c. 1300
Holy Pilgrim and St.Sebastien by Vittore Carpaccio
Holy Pilgrim and St.Sebastien by Vittore Carpaccio

[edit] Dutch and Flemish Collection

'The Music Lesson',by Frans van Mieris, Sr.
'The Music Lesson',by Frans van Mieris, Sr.

The Dutch and Flemish collection consisting of more than 120 paintings of art : From atelier of Hieronymus Bosch to Vincent van Gogh, Jan van Goyen, Rembrandt, Rubens, Frans van Mieris, Sr., Joachim Wtewael, Willem van Aelst, Jan Toorop,Aelbert Cuyp, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Adriaen van Utrecht, Joos van Cleve, Johan Jongkind, Carel Willink, Kees van Dongen, Allart van Everdingen etc.

[edit] Japanese Art Colection

View of Edo, by Hirosige
View of Edo, by Hirosige

Japanese Art Collection has 82 works including 36 graphics and paintings (All the graphics belong to the Ukiyo-e genre, which developed in Japan from the 17th to 19th century. One of the most frequent motives was the city of Edo itself).In collection are also Kunisada, Toyokuni, Keisai Eisen, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Ginko Adaci, Sosai Ikei, Jamamoto Souna, Sadahida Giokuran,...

Geishas, by Kunisada
Geishas, by Kunisada

[edit] Russian, Austrian and German Art Collections

Portrait of Karageorge by Vladimir Borovikovsky
Portrait of Karageorge by Vladimir Borovikovsky

Other Art Collections include Wassily Kandinsky, Albrecht Dürer, Mary Cassatt, Charles Conder, Alfred Sisley, Gustav Klimt, El Lissitzky, Marc Chagall, Aegidius Sadeler, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Burne Hogarth etc.

[edit] Cubist Art Collection

Robert Delaunay 'Runners'
Robert Delaunay 'Runners'

Cubist Art Collection include Picasso, Cezanne, Piet Mondrian, Alexander Archipenko, Marie Laurencin, Robert Delaunay, etc.

[edit] The Yugoslav(Serbian) Art Collection

The Yugoslav Art Collection consisting of more 6000 pieces created between 17th and 20th century. Some of them are : Paja Jovanović, Stojan Aralica, Petar Lubarda, Milan Konjović, Uroš Predić, Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Nadežda Petrović, Petar Dobrović, Mića Popović, Sava Šumanović etc. There is also Croatian Art Collection which has 156 works dated from 1850 to 1969 [1].

The Wedding of Emperor Dusan
The Wedding of Emperor Dusan
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Museums with major collections of Western European & American Paintings Paintings (mid-13th century to 20C)
  1. State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
    16,783 paintings [2]
  2. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
    11,900 paintings [1]
  3. Royal Collection, London, UK
    7,000 paintings [3]
  4. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
    6,000 paintings [4]
  5. National Museum of Serbia , Belgrade , Serbia
    5,600 paintings and around 8,400 drawings and prints [5]
  6. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    5,500 paintings [6]
  7. Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
    5,033 paintings [7]
  8. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
    4,800 paintings [8]
  9. Tate Collection, London, UK
    4,442 paintings [9]
  10. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
    4,000 paintings [10]
  11. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
    3,200 paintings [11]
  12. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
    3,000 paintings [12]
  13. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
    3,000 paintings [13]
  14. Das Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
    2,700 paintings [14]
  15. National Gallery, London, UK
    2,300 paintings [15]
  16. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
    2,200 paintings [16]
  17. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
    2,000 paintings [17]
  18. Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
    1,900 paintings [18]
  19. Accademia Carrara di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
    1,800 paintings [19]
  1. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
    1697 paintings (inc. 200 paintings from Christ Church Picture Gallery) [20] [21]
  2. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
    1,600 paintings [22]
  3. Gräflich Lambergsche Gemählde-Gallerie, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria
    1,600 paintings [23]
  4. Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria
    1,500 paintings [24]
  5. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
    1,400 paintings [25]
  6. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
    1,200 paintings [26]
  7. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
    1,181 paintings [27]
  8. Fogg Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
    1,100 paintings [28]
  9. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
    1,011 paintings [29]
  10. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
    1,000 paintings [30]
  11. Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
    1,000 paintings [31]
  12. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, USA
    900 paintings [32]
  13. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
    900 paintings [33]
  14. Le Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
    850 paintings [34]
  15. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
    800 paintings [35]
  16. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
    800 paintings [36]
  1. Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome, Italy
    800 paintings [37]
  2. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
    800 paintings [38]
  3. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
    750 paintings [39]
  4. Wallace Collection, London, UK
    650 paintings [40]
  5. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
    644 paintings [41]
  6. Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
    530 paintings [42]
  7. Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
    500 paintings [43]
  8. Vatican Museums, Vatican City
    460 Paintings (ex. Raphael Stanze, Sistine Chapel) [44]
  9. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
    450 paintings [45]
  10. Musée National Picass, Paris, France
    250 paintings (small selection of work by other artists) [46]
  11. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    200 paintings [47]
  12. Notable Exceptions (lack of information):
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
    The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA
    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
    Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
    Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France
    Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris, France
    Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Germany
    Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
    Palazzo Spada, Rome, Italy
    Gallerie dell'Accadenia, Venice, Italy
    Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
    Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
    Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
    Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
    Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
    Museo Civico di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy
    Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino, Italy
    Galleria nazionale di Parma, Parma, Italy
    Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, Italy
    Museo nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa, Italy
    São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil
    n.b. it should be noted that this list is controversial, in so far as it contains only quantitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.

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