From 11 November 2016, the General Staff building will be the venue for the exhibition “Giovanni Boldini. This is the first major showing in Russia of works by the celebrated Italian portraitist Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) who created a gallery of splendid images depicting the stars of Parisian social and intellectual life in the Belle Époque.
The display brings together pictures from seven Italian museums, including the Uffizi Gallery, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and museums in Parma, Barletta, Pavia and Treviso. The core of the retrospective, though, is formed by exhibits from the Giovanni Boldoni Museum in Ferrara, the largest public collection of the painter’s legacy, with a unique composition, comprising mainly works from his studio that he did not intend to present to the public, a sort of “secret laboratory”, where he experimented freely in different genres and techniques.
November 11.2016 – March 11.2017
