“Mikhail Lomonosov and the Time of Elizabeth I” – the exhibit items from the Art Academy Museum collection displayed in the State Hermitage Museum.
In November 2011 we celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian scientist/encyclopedian Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. In the gala halls of the Winter Palace, where the entrance is decorated with a cartouche bearing the monogram “EI”, a large exhibit, entitled “Mikhail Lomonosov and the Time of Elizabeth I” has been prepared for this jubilee date. It includes more than 700 exhibit pieces from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, and also from other museums, archives and libraries in Petersburg. This exposition is distinguished by the meticulously detailed selection of works that will make it possible to look at the Time of Elizabeth of Russia, in which Lomonosov’s genius shined so brightly, from every angle.In April 1912 in the halls of the Imperial Art Academy the exhibition with the same title “Mikhail Lomonosov and the Time of Elizabeth I” was organized. This truly great exhibition was devoted to the 200 anniversary of “the first and the greatest Russian scientist”. In the catalogue of this exhibition we found the primary editor’s goals “to discover Lomosov’s personality and appearance not with words but with the help of exhibit items”. The main work in preparing the exposition was entrusted with the “Committee of detailed acquaintance with antiquarian items”. The head of this Committee were A. S. Raevsky, M. N. Benois and A. A. Bobrinsky. Russian artist E. Lansere made a special design for the exhibition. This historic exposition included architectural models from the Art Academy Museum. The best architectural models from the collection of the Art Academy Museum (the model of the Trinity Cathedral of the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra designed by Schwertfeger in 1720-s, the model of the Art Academy itself, 1766 and the model of the St. Isaac Cathedral designed by Antonio Rinaldi in 1760-s) are also shown nowadays in the exhibition “Lomonosov and the Time of Elizabeth I” in the Hermitage.
Mikhail Lomonosov and the Time of Elizabeth I
22 November 2011 - 11 March 2012
Concert Hall (Room 190), Nicholas Hall (Room 191), Antechamber (Room 192), Winter Palace. |
