Treasures of the Hermitage: Inauguration of Eighteen Episode Video Series

Speakers: Andrei Boudnik and Dimitry Chelyshev
Discussant: Girish Shahane

February 27, 1998 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, is the home of countless masterpieces from every school of Western art represented by Rembrandt, Raphael, Da Vinci, Rubens, Van Dyck, El Greco, Goya and Renoir. The museum houses Europe’s largest collection of Picasso’s Cubist paintings and large galleries of Matisse and Gauguin. In addition, displays of sculpture, decorative arts and the architecture of the buildings themselves are on view in over 400 rooms.

A video series titled “Masterpieces of the Art World”, scans a vast selection of rarely seen treasures in the Hermitage Museum. Through this, and combined with narratives about the art, artists and the times, it traces the history of art.

This screening will present a one-hour film (comprising glimpses of the 18 films to be screened in the following months) which will be followed by a discussion.