Description of the attraction
In 1950, the Art Museum was established in Cetinje. Initially, the city library of Cetinje served as its location. Today it is located in the building of the former Government House along with the Historical Museum.
According to the latest data, the museum contains about three thousand exhibits, most of which ended up in its repositories at the end of the last century. These include old paintings and sculptures, as well as works by contemporary masters. Many of these masterpieces, including a collection of icons and paintings donated by the museum from Svetozar Tempo and his wife, are on permanent display at the museum.
The most valuable specimen of the Art Museum is the icon of the Filermskaya Theotokos, which was painted by the Dmitrievich-Rafailovich family of painters, belonging to the Boka-Kotor school of icon painting. According to ancient tradition, the apostle Luke was also directly related to the appearance of this icon. According to the Orthodox community, the icon of the Filermskaya Theotokos is miraculous.
For some time the icon was owned by the orders of knights, the royal house of the Romanovs (about 120 years, during which the icon frame was changed from silver to gold), the Ostrog monastery, and only in 1950 it became an exhibit of the Cetinje Art Museum and is now in its blue hall. …
In addition to the works of Montenegrin, Serbian and Croatian sculptors and artists, performed in various techniques and styles, the museum halls also showcase some of the masterpieces of Picasso, Chagall, Dali, Renoir, etc.
