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Conference on “The Art of Jewellery and Material Culture”
On 5 and 6 March 2019, the State Hermitage held a conference on “The Art of Jewellery and Material Culture”. This is one of the museum’s oldest conferences with roots going back to a seminar with the same title that was established in 1996 by Natalia Alexeyevna Zakharova.
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Latest session of the seminar “Heraldry – an ancillary historical discipline”
On 27 February 2019, the Hermitage hosted the latest session of the seminar “Heraldry – an ancillary historical discipline”.
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Pianissimo Evening Recital
On 26 February 2019, a part of the Pianissimo project, Alexander Malofeev gave a solo concert in the Large Italian Skylight Hall of the New Hermitage.
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Latest Session of the Weaponry Seminar
On 26 February 2019, the latest session of the Weaponry Seminar took place in the State Hermitage. The event was, as usual, attended by weaponry specialists from St Petersburg museums and independent researchers.
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Day of the Culture of the Caucasus in the Hermitage. Daghestan beneath the Eagle’s Wing
On 22 February 2019, the fourth Day of the Culture of the Caucasus was held in the Hermitage. This year the main theme was the art and culture of Daghestan.
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Intellectual Marathon A Passion for Piero della Francesca
On 22 February 2019, the General Staff building was the venue for the Hermitage’s sixth intellectual marathon, devoted this time to Piero della Francesca. The event focussed on classic art and the phenomenon of its present-day popularity.
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Presentation of Mikhail Piotrovsky’s book The Hermitage from the Scythians to Kiefer in the House of Books: 50 Exhibitions over 25 Years in the General Staff building
On 22 February 2019, the Small Atrium of the General Staff building was the venue for the presentation of Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky’s book Ermitazh. Ot skifov do Kifera. 50 vystavok za 25 let [The Hermitage: from the Scythians to Kiefer. 50 Exhibitions over 25 Years] (ARCA publishers, St
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Who Invented the Hermitage Logo? On the 80th Anniversary of the Birth of Askold Kuzminsky
On 16 February 2019, the formal opening of the exhibition “Who Invented the Hermitage Logo? On the 80th Anniversary of the Birth of Askold Kuzminsky” took place in the Foyer of the Hermitage Theatre.
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Seminar in Dallas: “Finding a Way: The Soft Diplomacy of Art Exchanges Between Russia and the United States”
On 13 February 2019, at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, in a hall used to display a huge Murillo canvas that belongs to the Story of Jacob series, of which there are two other paintings in the Hermitage, a seminar was held that had been organized by the American Association of Art Museum Directors and
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Lecture by Silvia Ronchey in the General Staff building
On 15 February, as part of the programme prepared for the opening of Umberto Mariani’s exhibition in the General Staff building, Silvia Ronchey gave a lecture entitled “The Way to Byzantium: the cult and culture of the icon from Plato to abstract art”.
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Abstract Art in Italy. Umberto Mariani
From 13 February 2019, the exhibition Abstract Art in Italy. Umberto Mariani is being held in the General Staff building.
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On 31 January 2019, three visitors made an entry in the comments book for one of the exhibitions being held in the State Hermitage’s General Staff building that contained a threat to steal a painting from the museum.
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Marking the Day of Russian Science. Demonstration of the First North-Western Installation of the Mega-Science Class “Quantologoi” or “Scientists Joking”
On 8 February 2019, the Day of Russian Science, the Forum of the General Staff building was the venue for the demonstration of the operation of the First North-Western Installation of the Megascience Class “Quantologoi” or “Scientists Joking”.
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Lecture by Professor Piergiorgio Odifreddi
On 8 February 2019, the Atrium of the General Staff building was the venue for the third in a cycle of lectures accompanying the exhibition “Piero della Francesca. Monarch of Painting”.
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Readings in Memory of Vladimir Grigoryevich Lukonin
On 23 and 24 January 2019, the State Hermitage held the latest Readings dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Grigoryevich Lukonin (1932–1984), an outstanding Russian specialist on the culture and art of ancient and mediaeval Iran and head of the Hermitage’s Department of the East for more than a quar
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A Delegation from the State Hermitage Visited Piskarevskoye Cemetery
As the 75th anniversary of the complete lifting of the Siege of Leningrad approaches, a delegation from the staff of the State Hermitage headed by the museum’s General Director Mikhail Piotrovsky, his deputies Svetlana Adaksina, Georgy Vilinbakhov and Alexander Prokhorenko and Major General Alexande
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The State Hermitage reminds the public that the day when individuals can visit the museum free of charge has been moved to the third Thursday of the month.
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The State Hermitage informs
On 17 January 2019, in accordance with the plan for the restoration of the railings of the Alexander Column, the eagle that had previous been dismounted by the Hermitage’s specialist services was reinstalled.
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Presentation of the Hermitage–Barcelona Building Design
On 18 January 2019, the State Hermitage’s Council Hall was the setting for a meeting with representatives of the Hermitage–Barcelona Foundation and discussion of the design for the building of the Hermitage-Barcelona Centre.
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Briefing on the Double-Headed Eagle from the Railings of the Alexander Column
On 14 January 2019, Georgy Vadimovich Vilinbakhov, Deputy General Director of the State Hermitage, gave a briefing in the museum devoted to the double-headed eagle removed from the railings of the Alexander Column for restoration.
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