At the turn of two centuries, the artist settled in London at the Hotel Savoy, a friend advised him, the American artist James Whistler painted the views of the River Thames directly from your room. Monet's advice and stayed at the Savoy "three times: in 1899, 1900 and 1901. In total, he has lived and worked there for six months, is inextricably linked in this way the name of the hotel with one of the most famous episodes in the history of Impressionism.
In the "Savoy", however, about this episode is not remembered before the start of the XXI century. Only in the "zero" Hotel managers have decided to equip the theme "Monet Room" - the one in which the artist lived and wrote in the mornings views of the Thames. The businessmen took the case thoroughly, evidence of this - the price: the night in a double room is 720 pounds, a special two-day program with lunch and dinner, wines, cocktails and a tour of the National Gallery, which are the work of Monet - 2600 pounds.
Dual "Monet Room" is equipped on the fifth floor, in rooms 512 and 513. However, it had to happen that the decision to test its methods come from critics of the University of Birmingham. Their motivation was clear: Monet is known for his precision, thoroughness in the image area, or the Savoy or the Thames, no bridges since 1900 have not gone away and therefore, the picture can understand exactly where the artist was, when the draw.
However, the advance it was known that during three trips to London, Monet stayed in different rooms. In his first visit painter lived on the sixth floor, but in 1900 it was rebuilt under the hospital wards for the soldiers who were wounded in the Anglo-Boer War, and the artist had to settle on the floor below. In a series of paintings from Waterloo Bridge captures the view from it the fifth floor: in this, scientists were convinced, by comparing his paintings with the way Thames depicted Whistler. It is known that an American artist living in the Savoy on the sixth floor, on his painting for the bridge is seen the wide section of the river, and a Monet - only a narrow strip of water.
As Monet worked on the London landscape? Ezheutrenne he ate two English breakfast, and then, sitting in the hotel, drew the sunrise over Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross. He then crossed the river and from the hospital of St. Thomas drew the parliament building. The artist with him were about a hundred canvases: to reflect the look of London's attractions as accurately as possible, he drew on each of them only at certain times of day and under certain weather conditions (this method works Monet already tested when he created a series devoted to the stacks and Rouen Cathedral). This Westminster and bridges in the London series of Monet shine a wide variety of shades of mist.
Thus, critics have undertaken to check where exactly was supposed to be an observer to see the Thames and bridges as depicted in paintings. A reference to them served as Cleopatra's Needle - the ancient Egyptian obelisk, set on the Victoria Embankment. Researchers compared how the situation is relatively needle bearings of the bridge when viewed from different windows of the building. They came to a disappointing for "Savoy" conclusion: it turns out, Monet did not live in the "Non Monet, and in the neighborhood - in rooms 510 and 511.
When journalists asked to comment on the staff "Savoy", they did not have to hide deception: it turns out, when the room has a theme for the first time, make an elegant atmosphere in those very rooms was impossible. It turned out that Monet lived is not nearly as elegant as the current guests are "Savoy", and shared the bathroom with the inhabitants of three other rooms. His room was turned into luxury apartments only in 1910, when they were destroyed and balconies, one of whom worked for the artist. But now the hotel is a large-scale repairs, and representatives of "Savoy" has promised that, when in September the hotel will reopen for visitors, "Monet Room" will be located at the right place.
Cyril tadpoleshttp://lenta.ru/articles/2010/06/03/monet/