Ukraine to show Pіnzel sculptures in the Louvre Museum
The religious community of the the church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Buchach, preserving works of 18th century Ukrainian sculptor John George Pinzel, agreed to loan them for an exhibition at the Louvre. File photos.
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The religious community of the the church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Buchach, preserving works of 18th century Ukrainian sculptor John George Pinzel, agreed to loan them for an exhibition at the Louvre. File photos.
Conflict over the provision for the exhibition of the individual works of XVIII century Ukrainian sculptor John George Pinzel stored in the Church of the Holy Intercession in Buchach(Ternopil region)in the Louvre, are exhausted. Minister of Culture had to go to town to reach a compromise with local residents.
Ukrainian Minister of Culture personally ensured that Pinzel reliefs "Annunciation" and "Guardian Angel", which are stored in the church of the Holy Intercession in Buchach, will be transferred to the exhibition in France inpresence of Louvre Museum representatives, and after the show come back to church.
It should be noted that the religious community of Buchach for decades trying to defend the right to ensure that the sacred works of Pinzel were stored in the church of the Holy Intercession, for which both were made. However Buchach sculptures and reliefs of the great master of the "wander" around the world since the Soviet times, when the Church of the Intercession were closed, the iconostasis was dismantled and taken to a museums in Lviv and Ternopil. The fate of some of the exhibits, including the King's Gate Church of the Holy Veil, is still unknown.
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