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Article: From Russia with love. (traveling exhibition from Hermitage Museum, various artists, Art Institute, Chicago)
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- July 8, 1988
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE James Gardner
ART
THE IMPRESSIVE collection of Old Masters that comes to us from the Hermitage in Leningrad, and that has now moved from New York's Metropolitan Museum to the Art Institute of Chicago, inspires me to mediate briefly upon the soul of the Russian people. It might seem odd to think such thoughts in the present connection, since the painting in question are th Dutch and Flemish acquisitions of czars hell-bent on making Russia much less Russian and much more European. But the very abundance of treasures in the Hermitage, and the grandiosity of the structure itself, were born of an energy and appetite that, to ...