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The Russian Hermitage comes to the Prado Museum

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

On the occasion of Spain-Russia Dual Year 2011, the city of St. Petersburg hosted from February until May, the exhibition “Prado at the Hermitage”. A total of sixty-six paintings, Spanish, Italian and Flemish schools, gave proof of the importance of the Spanish museum in the incomparable setting of the Hermitage, one of the largest and most spectacular museums in the world. And now, continuing with this unprecedented exchange of collections, Prado Museum is honored to receive the State Hermitage Museum from St. Petersburg. This exhibition, opens on the 8th of November and will be open until the 25th of March, 2012 and is curated by Mikhail Piotrovsky which is also the director of the Russian Museum. Visitors will enjoy the one hundred and seventy works from the Hermitage including paintings, sculptures, decorative art objects and antiquities, among others, dating from the century V a. C. until the twentieth century. A variety of art collections gathered in one place, the Prado Museum in Madrid. Thus, ´Eternal Spring´ by Rodin (sculpture), ´Seated Woman´ by Picasso (oil painting), ´The Month of Mary´, Gauguin (oil painting), ´Conversation´ by Matisse (oil painting) and ´The lute player ´by Caravaggio (oil painting) are some of the works to be exhibited at the exhibition. Among the objects of decorative art is a sword that in the eighteenth century gave the Indian ambassador to the Tsar, a magnificent decorated with rubies, diamonds and silver, as well as the ´Glass Flowers´, by Carl Faberge, made in glass rock, diamonds and gold. The Madrid museum is named after the street where it is located, which the Paseo del Prado. This... read more