This exclusive Melbourne exhibition also highlights the innovation and vision of Catherine the Great, whose inexhaustible passion for education, the arts and culture heralded a period of enlightenment in the region. The extraordinary works sourced and commissioned by Catherine during her thirty-four year reign, created the foundations for the Hermitage today – considered to be one of the world’s greatest treasure houses of art and decorative arts.
The exhibition offers audiences an immersive experience, recreating the rich atmosphere of the Hermitage to showcase these exquisite works.
The exhibition will run till November 8 2015 and then it will vanish back overseas to the ever-rainy St Petersburg, so please be quick:http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/…/masterpieces-from-the-hermitage/
I am publishing today GM's impressions from this exhibition he visited: "For those of us not lucky enough to have made the trek to St Petersburg, the Hermitage Museum might seem like just another art gallery on an ever-growing bucket list..." please read the full story:http://bohemianrhapsodyclub.weebly.com/travelling.html