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In Palaces and Tents. The Islamic World from China to Europe: The exhibition is dedicated to the contacts between the Islamic World with the neighbouring cultures of Europe and China....more
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D'ESTE CASTLE, FERRARA, ITALY
5 April 2008 - 6 July 2008
The State Hermitage Museum presents the first exhibition, organized in association with the Hermitage-Italia Foundation: Garofalo - the painter at Ferrara of D'Este. The Foundation is an Italian branch of the State Hermitage Museum, established in Ferrara on 20 October 2007. It is an important Italian-Russian research centre.
The exhibition is dedicated to Benvenuto Tisi, called Garofalo, one of the leading artists of the 16th-century figurative art in Ferrara.
The State Hermitage Museum has an important collection of Garofalo?s paintings. The exhibition, displayed in the splendid rooms of the D?Este Castle from 5April until 6 July 2008, aims to recreate the artist?s career, proving that his works were influenced by the main trends of the 16th century art. The show also evokes Ferrara?s vibrant artistic climate of the beginning of the 16th century, displaying the works by Domenico Panetti, Boccaccio Boccaccino, Dosso Dossi and Francesco Francia
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THE HERMITAGE-KAZAN EXHIBITION CENTRE, TATARSTAN
18 October 2007 - 2 August 2008
The exhibition at the Hermitage-Kazan Exhibition Centre, part of the Kazan Kremlin State Historical and Architectural Museum and Park, includes approximately 200 paintings, prints, sculptures and pieces of decorative applied art. Such a large exhibition of Russian art of the above period from the State Hermitage Museum collection has never been on public display before. Many artworks are shown for the first time and are little known not only to the general public but also to the specialists.
The desire to choose the very best examples from tens of thousands of paintings, sketches, watercolours, prints and sculptures by Russian masters determined the selection of items for the Kazan show.
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THE 'HERMITAGE AMSTERDAM' EXHIBITION COMPLEX, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
7 June 2008 - 24 August 2008
The exhibition ?Images of St Petersburg?, which includes over 100 photographs from the Hermitage collection, provides a unique opportunity to see life in St Petersburg in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the city was still the capital and lively centre of the Russian empire. Visitors to St Petersburg will discover that in spite of revolution and war the centre of the city and the Hermitage were very well preserved, as can be seen in the historic photographs offering pleasantly familiar views in this 9th exhibition in the Hermitage Amsterdam.
Russia was one of the first countries in the middle of the 19th century to take up the new invention of photography. It soon had a rapidly growing number of practitioners, both professional and amateur. As the technique became ever simpler and more accessible, its potential began to be fully exploited and photographs came to be part of everyday life in many layers of society. By the late nineteenth century a family without at least one cherished family portrait would have been rare.
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THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST. PETERSBURG
14 February 2008 - 7 September 2008
The exhibition is dedicated to the contacts between the Islamic World with the neighbouring cultures of Europe and China. It is aimed at demonstrating that the Islamic World has never been isolated from world culture but, on the contrary, has always remained as a deeply integrated part of it.
The exhibition includes more than 300 pieces coming and consists of four sections. The first section is devoted to Islamic art from the origin of Islam in the 7th century to the Mongol invasion (13th century). The second section illustrates the subsequent development of Islamic art from the Mongol invasion well up to the 16th century. The third section jointly displays works of art dating from 16th-19th centuries and originating from various Islamic countries. The fourth section deals with political (both diplomatic and military) contacts between Russia and the Islamic World.
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THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST. PETERSBURG
16 May 2008 - 14 September 2008
The exhibition is a continuation of sorts relating to an earlier show titled Italian Kinetic Movement, organized at the State Hermitage Museum in 2006. Displayed are 40 works by GRAV artists (from the French Group de Recherche d?Art Visual ? Group of Visual Arts Research), collected from museum and private collections and encompassing half a century of creativity.
The GRAV group was formed in France in 1960 when the dominant, mainstream trends in the visual arts were pop-art and op-art (?optical-art?), both considered reactions to contemporary, technological, omnipresent advertisement and mass-culture.
GRAV?s members experimented mainly in the field of optical and kinesthetic art. Their manifesto, Enough Mystification (1961), proclaimed: ?There shall never be works of art intended to be perceived solely by the cultured eye, by the sensitive eye, by the intellectual eye, by the aesthete eye or the amateur eye. It is the human eye that shall be our reference point?.
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ST PETERSBURG
20 JUNE 2008
The State Hermitage Museum will hold its annual gala banquet on 20 June 2008, a luxurious evening of entertainment in the magnificent halls of the Winter Palace. The paintings galleries will be open for guests to wander at their will; there will be a performance by ballet stars of the Mariinsky Company in the Neo-Classical Hermitage Theatre built by Catherine the Great while opera stars will provide a musical interlude during the banquet in the Jordan gallery. There will be a reconstruction of an imperial ball in the Armorial Hall. At the end of the evening there will be a farewell ceremony under the famous Atlante statues that have guarded the entrance to the New Hermitage since 1852.
The purpose of the evening is to raise funds for the conversion of the western wing of the General Staff Building into Russias first museum of 19th and 20th century art. The reconstruction of the General Staff Building and the establishment of this unique museum will be the Hermitages most important development project of the next decade. We hope to celebrate its completion for the 250th anniversary of the museums foundation in 2014.
June is the most popular time to visit Russias old imperial capital. The famous White Nights around the summer solstice, mean that the sun hardly sets over the city. It is the perfect time to visit the country palaces built by the imperial family for summer life and to see the elaborate parks that surround them, with their pavilions and lakes. The historic city with its 300 palaces, its rivers and canals and its lofty cathedrals sparkles in the summer sunlight.
Guests who would like to stay in St. Petersburg for a few days are invited to join the very special sightseeing tour that we will organize for them. The itinerary will be included in the banquet booklet. The Mariinsky Theatre will be holding its annual ball on 21 June, the day following the banquet, and some people may like to combine the two events.
We expect to welcome some 300 guests. The standard ticket price will be 1,000 euro, with a special guest section at 2,000 euro and a top table section at 3,000 euro.
For further information please contact Geraldine Norman, Joint Executive Director, Friends of the Hermitage, 5 Seaford Court, 220 Great Portland St., LONDON W1W 5QR
tel 44 (0) 207 387 6067 / fax 44 (0)207 383 3470 / normangeraldine@hotmail.com.
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