Infant Jesus Christ
Western European Engravings of the 15th to 18th Century from the State Hermitage Collection

The cult of the Infant Jesus became the most important embodiment of Christian Love, Softness and Tenderness. The idea of the exhibition is on the one hand to demonstrate the very essence of the religious feeling towards the Infant which is most vividly expressed in the art of printed graphics, and on the other hand to follow the development of iconography and artistic treatment of the subject in the works of art of the 15th to 18th century masters.
The more than 100 prints featured at the exhibition include works of such artists as Albrecht Duerer, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Martin Schonhauer, Francesco Parmigianino, Hendrick Goltsius, Jacques Charles Bellange, Jacques Callot, Agostino, Annibale and Lodovico Carracci, Pietro Testa, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and others.

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Director of the Hermitage at the opening ceremony of the exhibition

First visitors