Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art

West-Europe XVI-XX Museum's collection is represent the works by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Gerard David, Jan van Seorel, Rubens, Alexander Adriaenssen, Abraham Bluemart, Barbieri, Frans Hals, Pierre Mignard, Alexandro Magnasco and many other.

The museum sculptural exhibits are interesting from the viewpoint that they may be considered as links connecting various stages in the development of European art over a period of three and a half centuries.

The museum exhibition of works of decorative and applied art is of great importance due to the fact that visitors have a possibility to appreciate stylistic principles characteristic of different epochs.

Oriental Art The museum collection of Oriental art contains works by masters spanning several generations from Central and Southern Asia, the Near and Middle East. All the exhibits date from a comparatively recent period — the eighteenth-twentieth centuries. It was also the time when the popularity of Chinese porcelain in the West reached its acme (the museum displays articles dating from the period when a Chinese cup was paid for in gold). A hundred years ago, a passion for Japanese culture seized both Western and Eastern hemispheres. This led to the situation that works of certain kinds of Japanese art, which sold particularly well across the ocean, have now become a rarity in Japan itself (this applies to Utamaro's engravings and Satsuma faience vases, both represented in the museum).