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 survey of Ukrainian portrait art and laid the foundations for its scholarly study.

Today, thanks to digital technologies and many years of research by specialists of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, this exhibition has been recreated in a digital format. It brings together hundreds of works that, at different times, were dispersed among museums in Kyiv, Lviv, and Kharkiv. The virtual exhibition makes the unique heritage of Ukrainian portraiture through the centuries accessible to the public.

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 Decorative Arts of Ukraine;
• The Taras Shevchenko National Museum;
• Kyiv National Art Gallery;
• The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art;
• The Kharkiv Art Museum;
• The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv;
• The National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”.

We extend our special thanks to our colleagues for their assistance in identifying the artworks:

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