Year of Italy in Russia

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"Thunderstorm" by Giorgione in Venice reached the Hermitage

season, "Thunder" at the Hermitage

Elena Verbina

The exhibition of one painting

One of the most famous works of the High Renaissance, "The Storm» (La Tempesta) Giorgio Barbarella da Castelfranco, Giorgione, or from the collection of the gallery of the Academy of Venice left Italy only once. In the 30 years of "Storm" were taken to an exhibition in London.

In continuation of the Year of Italy in Russia "The Storm" brought to the Winter Palace. Family of Giorgione in the State Hermitage Museum has three pieces. The most important one - "Judith", ranked in the imperial collection thanks to the efforts of the philosopher Diderot, as well as "The Adoration of the baby" and "Madonna and Child in a Landscape." Artistic merits of "Killer" critics of different eras valued to varying degrees, but the mystery of "The Storm" gives perhaps the only mystery "Mona Lisa". Like the Mona Lisa and her "Da Vinci Code" is a "Killer" has its own "code of Giorgione" - Pulp Fiction about the stolen paintings, and even its filming. But before you get in this century, "the boulevard" great Giorgione, Titian's teacher, has created many "dzhordzhoneskov" (as Walter Peyter even introduced the concept of "dzhordzhonizma"), and "The Storm" was the object of worship romantics. In the poem "Beppo" Byron mentioned it was her, calling Giorgione "connect with the beauty of truth":

In the palace there is Manfrini
His creation:

Pictures of beautiful lot
in the hall one

But no equal in strength of inspiration.
I'm not afraid to get carried away praising,
I am sure you have the same opinion.
On the canvas - an artist, son, wife,
And in it she embodied love.

Indeed, for quite some time now been taken for a family portrait by Giorgione - with a light hand the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, who called her in 1885, "Family of Giorgione."

Written around 1503, "The Storm" gives viewers a dozen interpretations of the story. Giorgione did not give the names of his picture. And even in 1530 it was known in the collection of Venetian collector Gabriele Vendramin as "landscape on canvas with the storm, a gypsy and a soldier." All true. The canvas depicts a rural landscape with a flash of lightning over the city walls and a grove in the distance, in the foreground on the left - a man with a spear or a staff (whether soldier, or shepherd), right across the creek - a nude woman with a baby. Both characters are in the picture as if by themselves, but the central event of this landscape is a flash of lightning, an approaching storm. Paul Muratov in the "Images of Italy" writes: "The mystery of the story" The Storm ", the strangeness of its shapes, without any connection to each other, are generated, most likely, this hopeless meditation Giorgione, hesitated at the turn of two epochs, for a variety of zaglyadevshegosya spectacle of the world and listens to the voices of my soul confused. "

Speaking about the allegorical meaning of the picture, the researchers suggest that, perhaps, Giorgione painted mythological scenes quiet life of Paris with his wife, the nymph Enon, while above them a storm and not even lived a shepherd Paris, unaware of his royal origin. In the figures on the canvas also suggest Adam and Eve expelled from paradise by an angry lightning Creator, and ruins in a landscape symbolize death as the atonement for original sin. Other researchers believe that the artist painted an allegory, where the soldier is the personification of force, and lactating women - Grace. It is known also that the initial figure of Giorgione portrayed two women breastfeeding mother and a naked woman on the right, lower your legs in the creek - on the left. Arguing about the meaning of "Storm", we must remember that the landscape here - the protagonist, where human figures - aids for the transmission of natural conditions. It is believed that this small canvas of European painting began in a purely secular trend, as the landscape of mood. In line for the film particularly relevant version of that shepherd who get lost in a dark storm, do not know about the woman on the other side as long as the vivid flash of lightning lit up not everything. With its light could be seen all the figures, the shepherd would take his vision opened as a vision of the Madonna and Child, and Giorgione wrote this very moment all the clarifying light moment for transparency, for which again followed by darkness and concealment.

Indeed, if the picture of in the form of a triptych, it appears that a central place in it belongs to just a natural disaster - a mighty strength, not amenable to human will. It seems that the painter is not so much the plot was taken aback by how much poetry of the landscape, sending all the faces of oncoming waves in nature. And then, as he wrote the art historian Michael Alpatov, "meaning the picture grows up to values ​​of the symbol of nature in an alarming moment." After Giorgione Venetian Renaissance was another, as the lagoon in a storm, came from the shores of sacred art for the unknown shores of art aimless contemplative, his only employee laws. In memory of this visual revolution in 2010, the 500th anniversary of the death of Giorgione in Italy was minted a commemorative silver coin worth 10 euros. The obverse of the coin - a portrait of the artist, adorns the reverse of "The Storm".

The picture will stay at the Hermitage until August 7. On a return visit to the gallery of the Academy in September, will arrive two paintings of the XVI century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto "Family Portrait" and "Madonna delle Grazie" ("Madonna of grace"), attributed in 2007, researcher Irene Artemieva Hermitage.

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The works of Giorgione, from the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg):

1. Madonna and Child in a Landscape Oil on canvas. 44x36.5 cm Italy. About 1503 source income to the Museum: A collection of Crichton St. - Petersburg. 1817

2. Adoration of the infant Oil on canvas. 46x39 cm, Italy. Around 1506 the museum received Source: Collected Crozat, Paris. 1772

3. Judith Oil on canvas. 144x68 cm, Italy. Source of revenue in 1504 Museum: Collection of Baron de Thiers LA Crozat, Paris. 1772

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A painting by Sandro Botticelli, "Pallas and the Centaur"?

It is now exhibited in pushkinke.

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Antonello da Messina. Masterpieces from Sicily. The exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery (THG, 2011)
Ministry of Culture|The State Tretyakov Gallery|Italian Embassy in Russia|Region Sicily |
Regional Asessorat on cultural heritage of Sicily


Antonello da Messina
Masterpieces from Sicily


The exhibition is open from September 10 to November 20, 2011
Address: Moscow, Lavrushinsky Lane, 10, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Halls № 46-48


Antonello da Messina (ok.1425/1430-1479) - a symbolic figure in the art of the early Renaissance. The Russian museum collections do not have any work of this remarkable Italian Renaissance artist, so even four exhibition of works by Antonello da Messina at the Tretyakov Gallery is an important fact of artistic life and a significant event, the Italian culture and Italian language in Russia.

Creativity Antonello da Messina is "the most convincing and organic synthesis of the elements of Italian and Netherlandish art and culture, a synthesis that can be safely attributed to the number of the highest achievements of the Quattrocento" (VN Lazarev). Travel four works by Antonello da Messina from Sicily to Moscow (three of which are exported for the first time outside Italy!) Allows viewers to compare the Russian and Italian cultures, geographically distant, but united by a common artistic memory of the influence of Byzantine art. It was in his early works by Antonello da Messina, who will be represented at the exhibition, one can see signs of common descent with the Byzantine Russian icons XV-XVII centuries.

In the study of creativity by Antonello da Messina invariably raises the question of artistic influences from different cultures. In the XV century, the city of Messina, the home of the artist, was at the crossroads of trade routes connecting the eastern Mediterranean from the outskirts of western Europe. Primary education was an artist, probably in his father's workshop, which was a stone carver and jeweler. But the little town that could give a little young artist, in contrast to Naples, the capital of the kingdom and the center of "Mediterranean Revival", a recognized place of distribution of Flemish, Spanish and French paintings. It was in Naples in the period from 1445 to 1455 started this career at the court of Antonello King Alfonso of Aragon (1442-1458), who was a shrewd and cunning politician, seeking to surround his throne halo "enlightened monarch". Thus, Antonello, without leaving the kingdom of Naples, had the opportunity to get acquainted with all the subtleties of painting the Netherlands, which was at a premium at the court.

In 1457 or 1460 (there are conflicting documents), the artist returned to Messina, where got his studio and worked on their own. The researchers suggest that Antonello da Messina could at this time to visit Rome. It is known that in the period between 1460 and 1465 the artist worked for years in his native city, which follows from the preserved documents about the orders. Given that all the works of this period have been lost, duplex board, "Madonna and Child blessing and admiration of the Franciscan" with «Ecco Homo» on the back side (wood, tempera. 16h11, 9. Messina, Maria Akashina Regional Museum), presented at the exhibition, is one of the few remaining early works by Antonello da Messina. Researchers have attributed it to the period between 1465 and 1470 years. It is very likely that it was part of a small portable altar. This work was acquired in 2003 in a private German collection and transferred to a regional museum in Messina.

Three other boards - with the image sv.Dzherolamo, sv.Gregorio and sv.Agostino (wood, tempera. 39h31, 46.5 x 35, 5, 46.5 x 35, 5. Palermo, Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis) - in 1952 were cleared by restorers from later records. Together with the lost fourth board, they probably made up the top end of the multicast altar - polyptych. Researchers have dated this work in 1473 year. Two years later, Antonello da Messina arrived in Venice, and received his orders say that he was already a recognized artist whose work is appreciated. After becoming acquainted with the works of Andrea Mantegna, Piero della Francesca Antonello artistic language becomes more monumental generalized. On the other hand, it is believed that it was Antonello da Messina was influenced by Northern Italian painters, in particular Giovanni Bellini, demonstrating the possibility of oil equipment in the transmission of light and air and subtle color relationships, which was extremely important for Venetian painting.

In September 1476 he returned to Messina, which is no longer leave, until his death in 1479, working on orders. Despite the short life, he was able to absorb and recycle organic most controversial ideological and artistic trends of his time - and the world of "infinitesimals" Netherlanders, calm and monumental language of Piero della Francesca, Mantegna and advanced searches.

The exhibition, organized within the Year of bilateral cultural cooperation Russia - ¬ Italy, 2011, prepared by Italian researchers in conjunction with the staff of the Tretyakov Gallery. A small but informative exhibition catalog can serve as a pretext for more advanced multi-faceted and enigmatic personality of the artist.


Source: Press Release TG

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"Two portraits by Lorenzo Lotto: Febo da Brescia, Laura da Pola." Exhibition at the Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin (October 2011)


Ministry of Culture, State Museum of Fine Arts, AS Pushkin, the Italian Embassy in the Russian Federation, Pinacoteca Brera (Milan) present the exhibition:


Two portraits by Lorenzo Lotto: Febo da Brescia, Laura da Pola.
From the collection of Pinakothek Brera (Milan)


The exhibition runs from 01 to October 30, 2011

Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin, Main Building, ul. Volkhonka, 12.


Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin's masterpiece continues to show of Italian art in the Year of Italy in Russia. Following the pictures, "The Lady with the Unicorn" Raphael Santi of the Galleria Borghese (Rome), "Pallas and the Centaur" by Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi Gallery (Florence) and the sculpture "Head of Medusa" by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini from the Capitoline Museum (Rome) - the museum is paired portraits of spouses Febo da Brescia and Laura da Pola outstanding artist of the XVI century by Lorenzo Lotto: from the collections of Pinakothek Brera (Milan).

Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556) - one of the greatest Italian painters of Italian Renaissance art. His fate was evolved dramatically. Lotto was born in 1480 in Venice, but was forced to leave the city in a fairly young age. Subsequently, his life, restless and unsettled, was associated with areas of Italy, as Lombardy, Veneto, Mark.

Art Lotto, not taken to his native Venice, because it did not try to follow the principles of his Venetian contemporaries, Giorgione and Titian. The artist was faithful only to himself and over the years more and more felt the aloofness of his life from forming in the Venetian tradition of painting. In this drama was one of the geniuses of the XVI century, an epoch, when Venetian painting experienced its "golden age". Attitude by Lorenzo Lotto, devoid of calm clarity, largely determined its special position in the art of his time. His works break the harmony inherent in the Venetian Renaissance, contrasting it to the world of images intended to excite any ¬ action, disturb the soul and excite the mind. A keen sense of dramatic art all mentioned Lotto, his monumental paintings and religious compositions, as well as numerous portraits he created.

Portraits Febo da Brescia and Laura da Pola, presented in the Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin, owned collection of Pinakothek Brera in Milan, one of the largest museums in Italy. It was established in 1809 at the initiative of Napoleon as a training body for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts, where they honed their skills. In 1882, the Pinacoteca was separated from the Academy and converted into an art gallery, which currently features works of masters XV-XX centuries.

Creativity Lorenzo Lotto - a unique phenomenon, not only against the background of the Venetian, but the whole of Italian Renaissance art, has accumulated the most important features of the artistic culture of Northern Italy the first half of the sixteenth century.


Source: Press Service Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin

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In the course of the Year of Italy in Russia

Our answer was in Russia, Italy, marked by an exhibition of masterpieces of social realism in Rome from 12 October.
The exhibition will be called simply and succinctly "socialist realism ". >
That painting exhibition socialist era are always held on the "cheers" and cause a genuine interest in Western Europe.
GIM , TG , et al ROSIZO present their masterpieces. The exhibition will continue until mid- January 2012.

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In Rome, opened two exhibitions of Russian art of the twentieth century

In Rome, at once two Russian exhibition - "socialist realism. The Great Soviet painting 1920-1970 years" and "Alexander Rodchenko" - opened on Monday in the Year of Russian language and culture in Italy.

The first retrospective of the largest foreign artists socialist realists and panorama of the artist and photographer, were presented today at the Rome Exhibition Palace.

"The Art of the Soviet period because of the prejudices of his" official "virtually unknown in the West, neither critics nor public. Working on this exhibition, we have tried to show that it is much harder to get a look at these paintings with new eyes as art objects, detached the ideological content, "- said the deputy director of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg Evgeny Petrov.

She made curator of the exhibition, along with the author of the concept of the exhibition the famous British art critic and expert on East European and Soviet art, Matthew Bown and deputy director of the Moscow Kremlin Museum Zelfira Tregulova.

http://argumenti.ru/culture/online/2011/10/129429

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in St. Petersburg brought the 250 paintings , Gianni Maymeri

In Russia, for the first time brought the blade Gianni Maymeri - the largest Italian realist of the 20th century . 250 paintings on display at the Academy of Fine Arts - a tribute to the year in Italy.

Maymeri survived two world wars , went into hiding during the dictatorship of Mussolini, and never ceased to write , experiment with colors, and fundamentals , which experts valued no less than his work.

Even after decades of almost no image fades . And when you digitize painting preserves the texture and color . Unique drawings of La Scala - portraits of Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. Milan landscapes - Project Maymeri - gradozaschitnika . When city officials decided to fill up canals, artist depicted them in his paintings , gave a great show - and in all respects preserved for posterity.

http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=597176

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Roman palace in Italy temporarily closed

The management of the Roman Palace of exposure (Palazzo delle Esposizioni), where in the Year of Russian culture and Russian language in Italy are two art exhibitions of "socialist realism" and "Alexander Rodchenko", on Thursday closed its doors for visitors to the exhibition complex for an indefinite period because of fear of riots, the newspaper Corriere della Sera.

For two days, one of the central streets of Rome - Nazionale (Via Nazionale), where the main building of the Bank of Italy and the Palace expositions - have taken activists protesting against unemployment and the policies of local authorities, aimed at overcoming the economic crisis.

"Outraged" as demonstrators called the Italian edition, pitched tent cities on the steps of the Fairgrounds, located just three hundred meters from the central bank.

According to the Corriere della Sera, close the doors of the museum management to advise law enforcement authorities, who feared that young people will try to take his room, where only three days ago, opened two unique art exhibitions in Russia.

When the doors of the Palace exhibits will again be open to the public, is unknown. According to the publication, the museum is closed on "indefinitely" as long as the protesters will be on Via Nazionale.

Closing the museum did not like the protesters, who expressed his disappointment that hung on the fence of the Palace exhibits a sign that reads "We want it to be opened."

As the Italian media, the protesters are preparing for large-scale protests, which will be held on Saturday 15 October in Rome, as well as in many other cities around the world against the financial policy of attempting such a way to fight the crisis.

The tense situation has been observed for several days not only in the Italian capital. On Wednesday, about a hundred "perturbed" tried to break into the building of the Bank of Italy, located in Bologna. As a result of clashes with police took place, then hit a student.

http://www.newsland.ru/news/detail/id/802276/

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What was jealous of the Italian minister, visited Russia

Anna Fedyakina
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - Special Edition "Italy" № 5615 (239)
25/10/2011, 00:03

Where you can meet in Moscow Minister of Culture of Italy? With Giancarlo Galan we met at the State Museum of Fine Arts, AS Pushkin. Using a free minute in a busy schedule of staying in Moscow, the minister decided to get a superb collection of the museum, especially the collection of paintings by Italian masters. Most admired Galan "Pallas and the Centaur" painted by Sandro Botticelli, which as part of "cross" Year of Russia in Italy and in Russia, Italy, brought to Moscow.

Mr. Minister, what brought you to the museum of Pushkin?

Of course, I know a lot about the painting of Botticelli "Pallas and the Centaur" had seen her and every time she made strong impression on me. Since I was close, I decided to take a few steps and take another look at the picture. In addition, I have first opportunity to see the entire collection of the Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin, who made a great impression on me. Much stronger than I expected. Especially liked the work of artists from Tuscany.

A Russian art and Russian culture you interested in?

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Of course, I've heard a lot about Russian art. Along with France, Germany and Italy, Russia - one of the great cultural powers. The fact that most impressed me from the history of Russian art - is that private collectors had never showed much interest in the cultural life of the country, while, for example, in Italy we have a huge collection of it from private collections. In my opinion, in Russia there is a shortage of such form collections of works of art. It is clear that the problem is not lack, and that the collectors for a long time simply was not possible to do so. But, as I've heard in recent years, this shortcoming can be remedied.

You agree that each ruble invested in cultural cooperation, will be a powerful economic effect?

I, for sure. But I think that this is not a very common view. To think that in Italy only 0.27%of GDP spent on culture. Of course, this is a very negative thing for the country. If you look at other European countries, it becomes clear that, in connection with the crisis of their expenditure on culture decreased. The only exception is France. By the way, Russia is also in one of the few countries that increased spending on culture, while others have reduced them dramatically. So I took a few lessons from Francois Mitterand and Minister Alexander Avdeev, to see how they did it. After all, culture - this is our heritage. This is what we must pass on to our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We should appreciate our history. Words, it is difficult to convey the importance of this area of ​​work. But, unfortunately, not everyone understands this.

You have worked in many areas in the parliament, were the Minister of Agriculture, now you - Minister of Culture. What is the lesson you prefer?

Prior to becoming Minister of Agriculture, I was president of the region's Vanity, and cultural heritage of this region - is the property of the world. Of course, Vanity have something to share with the public in different countries. And the Minister of Agriculture, in my opinion, was an exceptional case in my career. That's why I do not deny that the issues of art and culture I like to do much more.

What good comes out of the Russian political system or social sphere, culture, or simply life could borrow and absorb the Italians?

I truly admire Russia. I think that your country development prospects in the future than, for example, in India, China, and many others. Of course, there are many problems associated with large areas of the state: it is very difficult to communicate with each other. But the main reason that Russia has great prospects for development lies in the fact that this young country. Absolutely sure of it. Because when I met with representatives of major banks and corporations in senior positions everywhere young people. They were all about thirty years less than men holding similar positions in Italy. So you have a great future. I am 55 years old, but I feel young in Italy. And you, - on the contrary - I would be one of the oldest ministers. So when you asked me what I envy in Russia, it is the role of young people in public life, something that is not an aging Europe.

In what area of ​​cooperation between Italy and Russia the most productive?

The answer is predetermined. You sell us gas, and we'll - consumer products. However, recently more and more Italian businessmen from different areas come to Russia to open a business. A similar process occurs with the Russian side. It's not just the sale of natural resources, but also on agricultural products, mechanical engineering. I especially want to emphasize the interaction in terms of the latest scientific research.

What most attracts you to Russia?

This question for me is a bit complicated, because I do not know very well Russian cities. Been in Siberia, and in many other localities. And what struck me most - is the broadest expanse and unusual nature.

This is what is lacking in Italy. But if you think I would have liked to live in St. Petersburg. And frankly, would prefer any house, lost in the Russian fields, where the closest house was not less than 50 kilometers. Maybe somewhere in the Baltic Sea, not far from St. Petersburg, or, perhaps, a broad river. But there is no possibility that this dream will come true.

http://www.rg.ru/2011/10/25/galan.html

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Antonio Zanardi Landi: Main event - in front of

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Italy to Russia, Antonio Zanardi Landi has recently visited the "business lunch" in the "Russian newspaper". The Ambassador spoke not only about the exhibitions that lie ahead, but also about their favorite Italian dishes.

Has already passed more than half of this year. What are the activities of the Year of Italy in Russia, in your opinion, were the most important and most memorable to you? And what else can we be prepared aesthetically?

The most important events yet to come. We Italians are late all the time, so the most important events will take place at the end of the year, and even capture the beginning of the next. I hope will interest and amaze all of a huge exhibition of works by Caravaggio. Such a number of his works have never taken out of Italy.

Grand opening is scheduled for late November, the exhibition will feature 12 paintings by Caravaggio - the most special and most well-known.

The "Hermitage" an exhibition of frescoes from Herculaneum city. These are the frescoes, which were removed from the walls at the end of the XVIII century and the giant statues in bronze and marble.

We in the embassy project continues, "exhibition of one painting," by which we work closely with your newspaper.

Soon we come to the Embassy of two paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, who portray husband and wife, and there will be offered a picture of Caravaggio, from the above exhibition and "Portrait of a Young Man" by Giovanni Bellini.

As for the music, the first foreign guest in the new refurbished Grand Theatre will be "La Scala". Will the San Carlo di Napoli, at the Mariinsky. Now on tour in Russia, "Piccolo Teatro," the play "Harlequin, servant of two masters."

Among all the events in which I participated, I am most struck by three very small event in Salekhard. We felt fantastic hospitality. For me was a huge surprise that there are many people who love Italy and speak Italian.

We were also surprised that in 30 Russian cities held events in the Year of the culture in which the embassy had no part. They organized the Russians themselves, from Vladivostok and ending with Kaliningrad. This proves the strength of friendship between Russia and Italy.

We will be very sorry to say goodbye so intense cultural exchange that takes place the last six months. Maybe this will keep the bar at least another year to two?

In fact, it is inevitable. We're late with all the cultural events. In particular for this reason, the Year of Culture will be a thing that never ends. In terms of cultural co-operation we have risen to new heights, which has not dropped. The only problem is fraught with fundraising. But I have no doubt of success, because in Italy is well aware of the fact that culture is a powerful tool for communication and presence in other countries.

In order to persuade the Italian government to finance the Russian-Italian cultural cooperation, we give an example of two digits, which may render good service. First, this year the Consulate General of Italy in Moscow, will be issued visas to 50%more than last year. Total more than 600 000 visas. This is one-third of all Italian visas that are issued in the world. We hope that some of these tourists have decided to go to Italy, precisely because they took part in some events during the Year of Italy in Russia and learned about them.

What we will issue visas to 600-700 thousand per year, not only fuels the tourist industry in Italy, but also strongly unites the two countries. People know each other. A tourist who arrived in Italy, then, perhaps, buy some Italian products, will send his son to study in an Italian university or start some kind of economic activity with an Italian partner.

Continuing the theme of a visa. Once the Italian Consulate General of Noah so much gives them the Russians are not going to somehow make this procedure?

This year, we gave five thousand visas free of charge to those participating in or organizing some activities for the Year of Culture. Naturally, we can not give a lot of free visas and expand the conditions for receiving them. But we can do a little differently.

Italian Consulate General in Moscow now issues visas each time to great length of time, the duration of the visa increases. The more a person goes there, so for a longer period, it is given.

Did you visit any of Moscow's Italian Restaurant? As far as their Italian cuisine is identical to the canons? And what is your favorite Italian dish?

While my wife and children have not arrived yet, I often went to the "Kantinettu Antinori" located near the embassy, ​​where he conducted business meetings. The second restaurant, where I sometimes eat it "Semifreddo". There most excellent Italian cuisine. It is perhaps more elaborate than the original, but there is very tasty.

I hope that in the coming months I will add no extra pounds 06.07, because I was waiting for a small tour of Moscow's Italian Restaurant.

The fact that we in the Embassy will host an event called "Delicious Italy", where you can taste Italian cuisine. And my favorite dish - this risotto Milanese with saffron and meat on the bone.

A kind of wine do you prefer?

It was the most difficult question (laughs). The choice of white wine for me is simple. Since I'm from Friuli, I prefer friulanskie white wines. As for red wines, I mechus between the regions of Piedmont and Tuscany. But as in Tuscany, I spent more time and I know many local wine producers, it probably will give preference to it.

Several years ago, wines that were produced in southern Italy, in regions such as Sicily or Apulia, few people knew. But now, manufacturers have made a big leap in quality. One indicator of this is that many restaurants in Moscow now easy to find the southern wine, the Russians like it.

http://www.rg.ru/2011/10/25/galan.html

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The Europeans opened their eyes to the social realism

In the Palazzo delle Exhibit, Exhibition Palace in Rome, for the first time has the major retrospective of Soviet art. Socialist realism, the great Soviet painting, twentieth-seventies. This is the first major retrospective as artist-socialist realists outside of Russia.

The organizers wanted to show European audiences that social realism - it's not just the official order, but also a strong school of art in which a wide variety of flows. "The exhibition shows the development of socialist realism, the style and rhetorical oleograficheskogo - explains the director of the exhibition palace Mario De Simoni. - He went through the last years of Stalin's rule was then under Khrushchev, and remained even during the Brezhnev era. It is already reflected in the gradual understanding of the individual values ​​and future crisis of communism. " The exhibition was prepared by an international team, which included curators and of the State Russian Museum and the Moscow Kremlin Museums. From Russia, among others, were brought travelers rarely works by Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, Boris Kustodiev.

MARIO DE SIMONE, director of the Palazzo delle Exhibit: The aim of the exhibition, of course, show the connection between art and totalitarianism. But not only that. Socialist realism perceived very formal, but now it's time to make these great artists have been recognized. Excluded from the history of art because of ideological prejudices, which are now obsolete. In the adjacent exhibition halls of the palace is a landmark retrospective of another Soviet artist and photographer - Alexander Rodchenko. Both exhibitions were opened under the cross, the Russian and Italian and will last until January 8, 2012.

http://www.newsland.ru/news/detail/id/813682/