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Willamo Icon Collection

Icon Network — 2009-03-05T02:25:19Z

The Katri and Harri Willamo Icon Collection was introduced to the public for first time in 1989 at the Amos Andersson Art Museum in an exhibition entitled "Ikoneja - Ikoner, Katri ja Harri Willamon kokoelma." The history and contents of the collection were described in an exhibition catalogue published under the same name. In connection with this exhibition, Katri and Harri donated their collection to the Valamo Foundation, and in 2008 the collection was moved to the New Valamo Monastery (...) - 2. Icon Collections

Berghem Collection

Icon Network — 2009-03-05T02:16:58Z

By Juhani Berghem. Introduction and acknowledgements:
The journalist and cultural figure Hilkka Kuusela-Berghem was born in Impilahti on 18th November 1932 and her husband Juhani Berghem, a personnel manager, in Helsinki on 3rd April 1947. They met at New Valamo, having both retired from their work, and after their marriage in 1991 settled to live not far from the monastery, in the district of Heinävesi. As both were in poor health, however, they moved to Joensuu the following year. On (...) - 2. Icon Collections

Palazzo Leoni Montanari

Icon Network — 2009-03-05T02:13:04Z

The whole of the upper floor of Palazzo Leoni Montanari is reserved for the display of a selection of Russian icons from the rich collection built up in the 1990s by the Ambroveneto, now part of the Banca Intesa. The initial nucleus of this collection came with the purchase en bloc of the considerable number of paintings once owned by a collector in the Veneto region. It was subsequently enriched with shrewd purchases on the international market designed above all to document the earliest (...) - 2. Icon Collections