From 12 to 19 July 2018, a Week of Dutch Art is being held in the Hermitage. It is timed to mark Rembrandt’s birthday.
The Hermitage’s collection of Dutch paintings is one of the largest in the world and the most significant outside of the Netherlands.
During the week, episodes from Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky’s personal series on the Russia-K cultural TV channel devoted to Holland and Dutch art will be shown in the museum’s halls.
On 16 July, as part of the Hermitage Online project, there will be a live broadcast on the VKontakte social network. The guide to the world of Rembrandt and other Dutch artists will be Irina Sokolova, Doctor of Culturology, who is chief researcher in the Department of Western European Fine Art and Keeper of Dutch Paintings. The broadcast begins at 2 pm Moscow Time (11 am GMT).
On 18 and 27 July, the Department for Scientific and Educational Work will be offering a programme in the Artist of the Month cycle entitled “Learn above all to follow rich nature. Rembrandt in the Hermitage”. The conversation in the display will be conducted by Irina Voitsekhovskaya, a member of the department’s staff. The meeting begins at 7 pm. Tickets are available at the ticket offices of the Main Museum Complex on the day.
On the social networks we will be telling about masterpieces in the Hermitage’s collection of Dutch art, Rembrandt’s legacy of prints, the stylistic characteristics of his work and remarkable facts in his biography. Visitors will be offered the Virtual Academy programme “Rembrandt in the Hermitage” devoted to the history of the collection, the fate of Danaë and the different periods in the artist’s oeuvre. Additionally, our subscribers will be able to acquaint themselves with videos from the In Focus project about Rembrandt and Dutch paintings.
The Week of Dutch Art in the Hermitage is being held in the run-up to the exhibition “The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer. Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection” that will be working in the Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace from 5 September. One of the most famous private collections of 17th-century Dutch art, owned by Thomas Kaplan of the USA, will present 83 works by outstanding painters of Holland’s Golden Age – Rembrandt and his pupils, Frans Hals, Johannes Vermeer…
