In the new visible storage space on the ground floor of Kadriorg Palace, visitors can explore the museum’s Western European and Russian sculpture collection, comprised of over 250 artworks dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
This exhibition explores the numerous art purchases of the Baltic German nobleman Wilhelm von Blanckenhagen (1761–1840) and his relations with the international art community of Rome, one of the most important art centres in Europe. Among the artworks he brought to Livonia were those by leading artists of the German Romantic movement.
This exhibition presents furniture and decorative art from the collections of Estonian museums, focusing on the characteristic elements of décor and forms associated with each style and period, from Baroque to Historicism.
Dr Nico Van Hout, Head of Collection Research and Curator of Seventeenth Century Paintings at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp will give an English-language lecture titled “Nurturing Art in Flanders: Antwerp, Painters, Commerce and Politics”.