Ukrainian portrait of the 17th-20th centuries.

About the exhibition

“Ukrainian Portrait of the 17th–20th Centuries” is a virtual reconstruction of the landmark exhibition of 1925, organized by Danylo Shcherbakivskyi and Fedor Ernst. It became the first large-scale review of Ukrainian portrait art and laid the foundations for its scientific study.

Today, thanks to modern technologies and many years of research by specialists of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, this exhibition has been recreated in digital space. It unites hundreds of works whose fate at different times was scattered between the museums of Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv. The virtual exhibition opens up to the general public the unique heritage of Ukrainian portraiture through the centuries.

This project would not have been possible without the collaboration of a wide range of museum institutions:

The National Museum of the History of Ukraine;
The National Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Folk Art;
The Taras Shevchenko National Museum;
The National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery";
The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts;
The Kharkiv Art Museum;
The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv;
The National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve.

We extend our special thanks to our colleagues for their support in the identification of artworks:

Yuliia Shylenko, Alla Illing, Olena Zhivkova, Olena Ivanova, Inna Ivakina, Olena Marinina, Anatolii Sinila, Andrii Boiarov.