Monumental-decorative painting of museum purposes

In the monumental and decorative painting of museum purposes, scientific and artistic is closely intertwined, it is a kind of artistic and documentary creativity, remaining today the least studied sphere of artistic culture of the 30s and 90s. XIX century. The programs of the picturesque design of the three largest museums in Russia of the XIX century- the new Hermitage (1840-1852) in St. Petersburg, the Historical Museum (1872-1883) and the Museum of Elegant Arts (1898-1912) in Moscow are considered in historical sequence, from the point of view of evolution principles of picturesque design, from stage to stage in connection with changes in the prevailing views both in the field of art and the humanities, which makes it possible to identify continuity and interconnection between them, replenishes to some extent the gap in the study of the artistic problems of the era of eclecticism, as well as Allows you to trace the contribution of the best artistic forces of the country: P.M. Shamshina, P.V. Vasina, I.K. Aivazovsky, G.I. Semiradsky, V.M. Vasnetsova, V.D. Polenova, V.A. Serova, A.Ya. Golovin and many others in the development of the style of monumental-decorative painting of the museum purpose of the era eclectic and partially modern.
The study is based primarily on archival documents, correspondence, sketches of unfulfilled projects