И свет, угасая, отрезал безумного мальчика от его тени...
When you live in St. Petersburg from time to time you have to visit the Hermitage at least when your friends come to see the city. We did it on Thursday when you could visit the museum free of charge. That's probably how I'm going to visit the Hermitage as I am not a student any more. So, queues, queues, queues ever since. We had been waitiing for 2 hours outside before we could enter the museum. Well, probably that was due to autumn holidays but we decided that free tickets were meant for people to observe the museum inner yard as there people had nothing to do but to look around.
I stopped hoping to see everything in the Hermitage so as a rule I wandering through the halls and chambers. Or I choose some topic I am interested in the moment and look for it though quite randomly.
This time A. by all means wanted to see Egyptian objects of art I didn't mind as a guest is a guest. And I paid my attention to The Book of the Dead that made me tremble in a way. As if I had never seen it, and never heard about it, and then I got strangely spelled by some ancient sheets of paper.
We also went to saw works of Leonardo da Vinci - the Benois Madonna and The Madonna Litta. I remeber this place very well as once I fainted by the Benois Madonna when I was quite young. I wish I could say that the consequences of Stendhal's syndrome but I believe that there were more trivial reasons to that.
I am also kinda hunting for St. Sebastians. This time I came across two which I hadn't seen yet. These are
by Pietro Perugino
by Bernardino Luini
Another sudden discovery was the one and only work created by Michelangelo - The Crouching Boy. We were lucky to eavesdrop his story about Michelangelo's hiding in a cloister during Spanish attacks on Florence. They consider that the artist presented his own worries and anxiety about that situation. I can't say exactly how it made me feel but there was something special about that, something I'd like to remember.
look at The Crouching Boy?
Since I had been studying drawing I was quite attached to Antinous though it was not because he was easy to draw as he wasn't but I rather enjoyed observing him. In the Hermitage there different sculptures all of them are quite recognizable which present him as different gods. For me his popularity isn't surpricing. But it was more interesring to find Hadrian himself who was kinda responsible for this.
Antinous
Hadrian
I stopped hoping to see everything in the Hermitage so as a rule I wandering through the halls and chambers. Or I choose some topic I am interested in the moment and look for it though quite randomly.
This time A. by all means wanted to see Egyptian objects of art I didn't mind as a guest is a guest. And I paid my attention to The Book of the Dead that made me tremble in a way. As if I had never seen it, and never heard about it, and then I got strangely spelled by some ancient sheets of paper.
We also went to saw works of Leonardo da Vinci - the Benois Madonna and The Madonna Litta. I remeber this place very well as once I fainted by the Benois Madonna when I was quite young. I wish I could say that the consequences of Stendhal's syndrome but I believe that there were more trivial reasons to that.
I am also kinda hunting for St. Sebastians. This time I came across two which I hadn't seen yet. These are
by Pietro Perugino
by Bernardino Luini
[/urlAnother sudden discovery was the one and only work created by Michelangelo - The Crouching Boy. We were lucky to eavesdrop his story about Michelangelo's hiding in a cloister during Spanish attacks on Florence. They consider that the artist presented his own worries and anxiety about that situation. I can't say exactly how it made me feel but there was something special about that, something I'd like to remember.
look at The Crouching Boy?
Since I had been studying drawing I was quite attached to Antinous though it was not because he was easy to draw as he wasn't but I rather enjoyed observing him. In the Hermitage there different sculptures all of them are quite recognizable which present him as different gods. For me his popularity isn't surpricing. But it was more interesring to find Hadrian himself who was kinda responsible for this.
Antinous
Hadrian
