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Prado and Hermitage to swap works

St. Petersburg's Hermitage©Chubykin Arkady

Spain's Prado Museum and Russia's Hermitage Museum will swap works, including masterpieces by Goya and Rembrandt, as part of a cultural exchange between the two nations within the context of the bi-lateral Spain-Russia Year 2011.
This is an unprecedented exchange between the two museums in the form of two major exhibitions that will demonstrate the variety, quality and breadth of the collections of these great institutions.
The first of them, The Prado in the Hermitage (25 February to 29 May 2011) will present in Saint Petersburg a group of 66 paintings from the Spanish, Italian and Flemish Schools that will allow Russian visitors to appreciate the historical and artistic importance of the Prado’s collections.
At the end of this year, the Prado will present Treasures from the Hermitage (8 November 2011 to 26 March 2012) with 170 items (including classical art, decorative objects, paintings, sculptures and drawings) loaned from the Hermitage. They will in turn reveal the variety and breadth of that museum’s collections, which run from the 5th century BC to the 20th century.

Published 10.02.2011

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