The National Museum (Serbian: Народни музеј/Narodni Muzej) in Belgrade, Serbia was founded in 1844. It is on Republic Square. Since it was founded, its collections have grown drastically. Today, the museum has a collection of over 400,000 objects including many foreign masterpieces. Currently, the museum is closed for renovation costing an estimated 26 million euros. It will get a new exterior and interior. One of the features of the exterior will be the introduction of a glass dome as the roof of the museum, which will allow a controlled amount of sunlight to enter the museum.
The collections
The Collection of Drawings and Prints of International Artists has 2,446 items and the Yugoslav Art Collection has more than 6,000 items, including 1,700 paintings of Serbian authors from 18th to 19th century and 3,000 paintings from 20th century. This does not include the Serbian Medieval Art Collection
The French masters collections are the National Museum’s biggest pride. Comprising extremely rare pieces from Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, Rouault, Degas, Cézanne and others.Most paintings were collected and donated by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Erih Slomovic was a young Belgrader, born at the turn of the 20th century. Slomovic, even though very young, has been the protégé of the world’s biggest art merchant, Ambroise Vollard. Thanks to this relation, he developed his own collection, comprising a total of 600 pieces around 1941. The Slomovic Collection is the largest and richest collection of French art in the Balkans, as well as one of the most beautiful in the world.
Numismatics
The Numismatic Collection has more than 300,000 items (coins, medals, rings, seals…). The collection is divided into ten smaller assemblies from 5-6th century B.C., and includes a collection of coins issued by Philip II of Macedonian (359 – 336 B.C.) and Alexander the Great (336 – 323 B.C.).
Art Collections
The French Art Collection
Renoir’s Nude
‘Bust man with soft hat’, by Degas
‘Tahitian Girl’, by Gauguin
The French Art Collection consists of more than 250 paintings, from the 16th to early 20th century. It includes Gauguin (2 paintings, 2 prints and 1 water-color), created between 1889 and 1899, Renoir (22 paintings and 50 graphic works), Hubert Robert, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Matisse, Monet, Cezanne, Degas (15 works), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Paul Signac, Maurice Utrillo, Vollard, Sébastien Bourdon, Auguste Rodin, Eugène Boudin, Georges Rouault, Pierre Bonnard, Pissarro, Callot, Odilon Redon, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Moreau, Honoré Daumier, Charles-François Daubigny, Eugène Carrière, Maurice de Vlaminck, Édouard Vuillard, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Valadon, Eugène Fromentin, Émile Bernard, Forain, Jean Cocteau, Rosa Bonheur, Marie Laurencin, Eugène Carrière, Georges Dufrénoy etc.
* Nude by Renoir, c.1910
* ‘Two Women with Umbrellas’, by Renoir 1879. Pastel on paper
* ‘Girl with umbrella’, by Renoir
* ‘Small boy’, by Renoir
* ‘Two girls’, by Renoir
* ‘Guitar Players’, by Renoir
* ‘Rouen Cathedral’by Monet
* ‘Fin d’après-midi’by Monet
* ‘Courtesans’by Degas
* ‘Ballerinas and Women at Toilet’, by Degas
* ‘Monotype’, by Degas
* ‘The bath’, by Degas
* ‘Bust man in soft hat’, by Degas
* ‘Study of a Dancer in Tights’by Edgar Degas, ca. 1900, black crayon, 235/8
* ‘Nature morte aux fleurs’, by Georges Dufrénoy
* ‘Tahitian girl’, by Gauguin, dimensions 2m x 3m
* ‘Dead nature’, by Gauguin,
* ‘Liqueur bottle Benedikt’by Gauguin
* ‘Joys of Bretagne’, (1889) zincograph by Gauguin
* ‘Small Bathers ‘, by Cezanne
* ‘Market at Pontoise’, by Pissarro
* ‘A view of Tivoli, by Hubert Robert
* ‘Ifigenia sacrificing’, by Sébastien Bourdon,
* ‘Self-portrait’, by Jean Cocteau
* ‘Meadow by the Swamp’by Corot
* ‘Satirical Scenes’, by Forain
* ‘Life of Saint Monica’, by Vollard
* ‘Place du Theatre Francais-Sun effect’by Pissarro, oil on canvas, 1898
* ‘Head of a Woman’, by Matisse
* ‘Beside the window’, by Matisse
* ‘L’Olivier’, by Matisse
* ‘Monmatre under snow’, by Maurice Utrillo
* ‘Parisian Street’, by Maurice Utrillo
* ‘Sailing Boat’by the French 19th-century painter Félix Ziem,
* ‘Woman drink a tea’, by Paul Signac
* ‘Female Nude’, by Auguste Rodin
* ‘La Chimere’by Redon
* ‘Eyes’by Redon
* ‘A Head of a Gnome’by Redon
* ‘Pere Ubu’by Bernard
* ‘Fields’, by Maurice de Vlaminck 1904
* ‘The snow’by Maurice de Vlaminck
The Italian Art Collection
‘Adoration’by Lorenzo di Credi
Madonna and Child with Donor by Tintoretto
‘Nativite’, by Lorenzo Veneciano,c. 1300
Holy Pilgrim and St.Sebastien by Vittore Carpaccio
The Italian Art Collection, consisting of more than 230 works of art, is famous for the creative production of individual masters and artistic workshops starting from the 14th to the 18th century. Titian, Tintoretto, Domenico Veneziano, Paolo Veronese, Palma il Vecchio, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Alessandro Magnasco, Vittore Carpaccio, Francesco Solimena, Lorenzo di Credi, Spinello Aretino, Luca Cambiasi, Francesco Guardi, Bernardo Strozzi, Francesco Bassano the Younger, Piranesi, Giovanni di Paolo, Giulio Carpioni, Girolamo Muziano, Amedeo Modigliani, etc.
* ‘Portrait of Queen Christina of Denmark’, by Titian, Oil on canvas- 110 x 83 cm
* ‘Nativité’, by Lorenzo Veneziano, Tempera – 76,3 x 54,8 cm
* ‘Jesus and Madonna’, by Paolo Veneziano Tempera – 28 x 26,1 cm
* ‘Christ born’, by Paolo Veneziano tempera, 1320
* ‘Saint Paulus’, by Paolo Veneziano, tempera 59,7 x 22,5 cm – 1307
* ‘Adoration, by Lorenzo di Credi, d:96 cm – tempera c:1400
* ‘Madona and Christ at Throne’, by Giovanni Di Paolo, tempera 48 x 45 cm – 1427
* ‘Madona and Christ’, by Spinello Aretino tempera, 112 x 63,5 cm, 1375
* ‘Madonna and Child’, by Domenico Veneziano, ca 1435
* ‘God and Three Angels’, by Giovanni di Paolo, tempera 54 x 27 cm
* ‘Christ au Jardin des oliviers’, by Francesco Bassano,oil on canvas 90 x 74 cm, c. 1500
* ‘Madona and Christ’, by Bartolomeo Ramenghi, oil on canvas – 1504
* ‘Holy Pilgrim’, attributed to Vittore Carpaccio,c. 1495
* ‘St. Sebastian’, attributed to Vittore Carpaccio, c.1495
* ‘Dead Christ with Angels’, by Zagnelli,1510
* ‘Madonna and Child with Donor’, by Tintoretto, oil on canvas, Diameter : 158 cm, 1524
* ‘Madona and child’, by Luca Cambiasi, oil on canvas d:97,5 x 77,5 cm , 1555
* ‘La multiplicaione del pane’, by Venetian School, 146 x 179 cm, oil on canvas 1575
* ‘The Saint Cecile’, by Bernardo Strozzi, 58 x 46 cm,oil on canvas
* ‘Bacco and Venera’, by Zanchi, oil on canvas – 112 x 121 cm
* ‘Saint Jeronim’, by Giovan Battista Langetti, oil on canvas – 84 x 76 cm, c:1658
* ‘Artemisia’, by Alessandro Varotari, oil on canvas – 80 x 111 cm
* ‘Mercure hold a Bat’, by Giulio Carpioni, oil on canvas 71 x 58 cm,1660-1670
* ‘Christ and Samartian Girl’, by Jacopo Amigoni, oil on canvas – 96 x 73 cm,
* ‘Angel’by Leandro Bassano
* ‘Moses Miracle over Spring’by Leandro Bassano oil on canvas – 77 x 108 cm
* ‘Musicians’, attributed to Caravaggio
* ‘Landscape with Saint John’, by Alessandro Magnasco, oil on canvas – 126 x 110 cm
* ‘Collecting Mana’, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, oil on canvas
* ‘A view of the Grand Canal’, attributed to Canaletto, oil on canvas 60 x 95 cm
* ‘A view of San Marco’, attributed to Francesco Guardi, oil on canvas 75 x 99 cm -1765
* ‘Santa Maria de la Salute’by Michele Marieschi, oil on canvas
* ‘Madonna and Child with Angels’attributed to the School of Ferrara 16th c.
* ‘The Christ Death’, by School of Ferrara 16th. c.
* ‘Dance Around the Golden Calf’, attributed to the Giuseppe Gambarini,oil on canvas – 150 x 231 cm
* ‘Crossifing’, by Alessandro Tiarini, oil on canvas – 162 x 98 cm
* ‘Crossifing of Saint Peter’, by School of Ferrara, oil on canvas – 162 x 130 cm
* ‘Crossifing of Saint Andreus’, by School of Ferrara, oil on canvas 162 x 130 cm
* ‘Judita with Halofen’s head’by Donato Creti, oil on canvas – 115 x 91 cm
* ‘Madona in Pain with Angel’, by Francesco Solimena oil on canvas – 76 x 63 cm
* ‘David with Goliat’s head’, by Nicolas Regnier, oil on canvas – 98 x 123 cm
