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On June 4, 2020, the State Hermitage Museum together with the Shell Concern will launch a new stage of the educational project “Pearls of the Collection– – a series of videos about the art of the Netherlands.
“Working in Russia for almost 130 years, the Shell Concern sees its mission in contributing to the maximum development of ties between Russia and the Netherlands, preserving and popularizing our cultural and historical heritage,” said Sederik Kremers, chairman of the Shell Concern in Russia. “As a Dutchman, I am always very happy to see how fond Dutch masters are treated in Russia, what interest such artists as Antonis van Dyck, Frans Hals, Hieronymus Bosch and, of course, Rembrandt arouse among visitors to the Hermitage.”
The name of Rembrandt is associated with the beginning of cooperation between Shell and the State Hermitage Museum. In 2019, Shell became the general sponsor of the Year of Rembrandt and supported the restoration of the painting “The Fall of Aman”, one of the most mystical creations of the Dutch master.
“We are preparing all new projects, increasing our audience. This is an important part of our philosophy – to expand the possibilities of communication with the collection,” said Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage Museum.
The first series of the cycle is dedicated to the earliest Dutch painting in the Hermitage collection – the diptych “Trinity” and “Madonna and Child by the Fireplace” by Robert Campin. Dutch painting of the XV-XVI centuries developed at the same time with the art of the Italian Early Renaissance. The Netherlands is called the birthplace of oil painting, because it was here that artists, the first among European masters, began to widely use the technique of multi-layered oil painting. The heyday of national painting of that era was marked by the names of Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Huss and others. Among them, a special place is occupied by Robert Campin, whose diptych is one of the gems of the Hermitage collection. Nikolai Leonidovich Zykov, curator of Dutch painting of the XV–XVI centuries, researcher at the Department of Western European Fine Arts of the State Hermitage Museum, will tell about the artist and about one of the owners of the work – collector D.P. Tatishchev, as well as the history of the restoration of the painting.
Also this summer there will be two more stories about the Golden Age of Dutch painting, which falls on the XVII century. Irina Alekseevna Sokolova, Doctor of Cultural Studies, Chief Researcher of the Department of Western European Fine Arts of the State Hermitage Museum, curator of Dutch painting of the XVII-XVIII centuries, will introduce the audience to the art of the “little Dutch” and masters of the Rembrandt school.
The issues will be published on the Hermitage Academy website and on the social networks of the museum and Shell Concern, which will allow everyone to see the best collection of Dutch paintings outside the Netherlands. The works of the world scale will be presented by specialists of the highest level.
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