Article: Hermitage unveils damaged Danae. (the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, will begin displaying the restored Rembrandt painting on Oct 14, 1997)(Brief Article)

The long awaited but not quite triumphant return to public view on Oct. 14 of Rembrandt's Danae at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, marks the end of a grueling effort to salvage one of the museum's most celebrated and sensuous masterpieces. An acid-and-knife attack 12 years ago transformed the reclining nude into a "dark effervescing mass," in the words of one of the conservators who worked on the painting. The newly restored work is the centerpiece of an 18-month-long exhibition, "Danae" The Fate of Rembrandt's Masterpiece," installed in room adjacent to the Hermitage's Rembrandt gallery. The show also includes Danae paintings by Titian and Blanchard, a Greek ...

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