overview : The Odessa State Museum of Art opened its doors to the public in 1920 along with many other art museums set up in the Soviet Union in that year. Later, based on this museum's collection of foreign art, the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art was established. The collection of Italian art is the most representative in the section on West-European art. It includes paintings, sculptures and works of decorative and applied art dating from the Renaissance period (15th century) up to the twentieth century.

topics : european art