World culture: Exhibition "Giovanni Boldini. Artist of Belle Epoque" at the State Hermitage

On November 11, 2016 in the General Staff of the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) was presented the exhibition "Giovanni Boldini. Artist of Belle Èpoque", organized jointly with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Italy.

This is the first big show in Russian works of the famous Italian portrait painter Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), who created a gallery of images of brilliant stars Paris secular and intellectual life of the Belle Epoque.

The exhibition brought together the works of the seven Italian museums, including the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Gallery of Contemporary Art of Rome, museums of Parma, Barletta, Pavia and Treviso. The basis of retrospective is the collection of the Museum of Giovanni Boldini in Ferrara, the largest public collection of the painter, unique in composition.

Lifetime glory of the artist was so great that in 1892, at the request of director of the Uffizi Gallery, he wrote his famous portrait of the Vasari Corridor, which put self-portraits by famous painters from the Renaissance. This work, as well as a bronze portrait of the artist by Vincenzo Dzhemito, opens the exhibition.

The exposition also introduces the works of Italian masters of the circle Boldini, his colleagues and friends - Cristiano Banti, Torello Anchillotti, Federico Zandomeneghi, Giuseppe De Nittis, Antonio Mancini, Philadelphia Simi, Paolo Trubetskoy, including the famous painting "Dreams" by Vittorio Corcos.

A separate section of the exhibition is dedicated to the Italian advertising posters beginning of the XX century, of the "golden age of posters".