national gallery of Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
30 July @8 November. 2015

In the National gallery of Victoria held a unique exhibition "Masterpieces from the Hermitage: the legacy of Catherine the great". The exhibition was prepared three years the State Hermitage Museum and the National gallery of Victoria, together with the state fair Fund Avstralii@

Kim writes Guseva (Melbourne, unification.com.au), the exhibition, opened in the main gallery of Melbourne, dedicated to Catherine the great, as her Hermitage owes its appearance. In 1764 Catherine II acquired a large collection of paintings from the Berlin financier and entrepreneur Johann Ernst gotzkowsky. He was sent to St. Petersburg two hundred twenty-five paintings, first intended for the Prussian king Frederick II, the passionate collector, who because of financial constraints caused by the Seven years war with Russia, was unable to redeem them. This year is considered the year of Foundation of the Hermitage Museum. Catherine the Great died in 1796, but by that time, the collection had already been formed. Subsequent Russian emperors continued to replenish the Museum's collection. But only during the reign of Nicholas I had the idea to make the collection accessible to the public. And only in 1852, after nearly 100 years after its founding, the Hermitage has opened doors for everyone who wanted to see him Sobranie@

Australia is not the first time reveals the treasures of the Hermitage. In the 2012/2013 year in Sydney with the successful exhibition from St. Petersburg, dedicated to Alexander the great. This year the Melbourne takes the most famous exhibits of the treasures of the Hermitage. This 90 paintings and objects of applied art, including gold toilet set of 32 items, figured mirror with 400 diamonds and extravagant Golden-голубой set with cameos Sevres porcelain of the eighteenth century. Among the paintings was exhibited paintings of Rembrandt, Velazquez, Rubens and Titian. From millions of exhibits about 400 unique pieces of art arrived on the Green continent@

Mikhail Olegovich Dedinkin, Deputy head of the Department of Western European art of the State Hermitage Museum, told how Catherine the Great acquired the art: "Catherine understood the importance of acquisition of objects of art and bought their large collections. But with all this she was very zealous hostess of money is not allowed and each had its price explanation. Each of the acquired collection was discussed with the specialists, involved the best experts, to whom the Empress trusted. Involved local dealers in art who knew the situation on the market. And only when this large group all discussed, and then the decision to purchase".

the Hermitage Today is a @ & mdash; this is the largest Treasury of foreign art in Russia and one of the world's largest art and cultural-исторический Museum. A Museum that has already 250 years of collecting and preserving unique historical treasures, on inspection of the entire collection on the Neva river will take several let@

And it is difficult to disagree with the words of the Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews (Daniel Andrews), "the exhibition gives visitors a chance that once in a lifetime, to witness the personal collection of Catherine the great".

Источник: unification.com.au