Nefertiti in the Hermitage

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June 23 in the State Hermitage Museum opened a small but very representative exhibition "Beautiful come." Masterpieces of the portrait of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. " It presented four sculptural portrait: two heads of Nefertiti, the head of the princess, her daughter, and a man's portrait - the head of Amasis. Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky called the exhibit "nostalgic and very instructive: it exhibits were removed after the war in the USSR and until 1958 was stored in Leningrad, and then were returned to Germany. Piotrowski quoted by ITAR-TASS.
From Berlin to St. Petersburg brought two portraits of the queen: sandstone "Head of a young Nefertiti" with traces of paint and grandioritovaya "Head of a mature Nefertiti. These two works, as well as sandstone "Heads princess, the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, were found in 1912 by Ludwig Borchardt expedition that discovered in the city Ahetaton workshop of Thutmose, the court sculptor of Pharaoh Akhenaten reformer. The fourth exhibit - a portrait of Amasis - belongs to a later era: he was sculptured in the VI century BC from the greywackes, dark-gray sandstone.
Exhibition "The Beautiful has come" works in the Hermitage until September 20, 2009 in Picket Hall of the Winter Palace. Hall will remain tkrytym up to 21 hours.
(Lenta.ru)