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Imperial Capitals: St. Petersburg – Vienna. Masterpieces of Museum Collections
5 October 2018 – 13 January 2019
The exhibition presents an original joint project of the State Hermitage and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Each museum is contributing fourteen paintings that form pairs on the basis of similar subjects, proximity in time or being by the same artist.
The exhibition presents works by famous painters (Botticelli, Tintoretto, Rubens and Van Dyck) that give a general impression of the development of Western European painting from the time of the Renaissance to early Neo-Classicism. The display is based on the juxtaposing of pictures, making up fourteen harmonious pairs. This principle allows the viewer to better understand the characteristics of each collection and the masterpieces present in it, while also bringing out the affinity between the two museums.
The exhibition includes paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Museum by two great 16th-century masters who are not represented in the Hermitage collection – Albrecht Altdorfer and Hans Holbein the Younger.