and Christ on the Mount of Olives. The results of the research confirm that the two panes date from the mid-14th century and come from the church of Maria Straßengel near the city of Graz in Austria. This church was restored in 1885 and some of the stained glass ended up in private collections – not at auction but mostly bought quietly. It is likely that Bohdan Khanenko acquired his stained glass in Vienna in this way when he visited the Austrian capital in 1885 for the auction of the estate of the famous artist Hans Makart (1840–1884). The total number of panes in the Khanenko collection can be determined from the third document, the museum’s inventory of 1925. Fifteen works are listed there. The description of twelve of them is the same as in the earlier catalogues and is fully consistent with the current one. Three works, together with the aforementioned image of the Archangel Gabriel, are among the museum’s losses. Today, the Khanenko Museum houses the most important collection of world art in Ukraine, with over twenty-five thousand objects. The exhibits represent cultural treasures from all five continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia) and Oceania. The collection spans the period from the end of the 2nd millennium BCE to the beginning of the 21st century CE. It includes works of art from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, Byzantine icons, European paintings and sculptures, drawings and prints, tapestries and furniture, glass, porcelain and faience, art objects made of gold, silver and bronze, Chinese scrolls and decorative arts, Japanese netsuke, tsuba and woodblock prints, Iranian miniatures, ceramics and carpets, and Buddhist artefacts, to name but a few. On the eve of the Russian invasion in 2022, the museum’s permanent exhibition included around a thousand works of art. The rest were stored in the museum’s depot. The exhibition has been dismantled, and all the objects are safely stored. But life goes on in the museum. Inside there are temporary exhibitions of Ukrainian and international art from the 19th to the 21st century, as well as one-day exhibitions from the museum’s collections. There are also various educational events, including excursions, lectures and master classes. The so-called war collection continues to grow as contemporary artists donate their own works to the museum after they have been exhibited in the museum’s halls. Research and the digitisation of objects and archival documents in the collection also continue. Other activities include joint international projects dedicated to the exhibition, research and restoration of works from the museum’s collection. The current exhibition project presents twelve of the Khanenkos’ stained-glass panes together for the first time in many decades. They have been meticulously restored, catalogued and analysed by experienced specialists in accordance with the latest scientific findings. 20
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