The State Hermitage Museum
invites you to take part in the Hermitage Readings
held in commemoration of Vladimir Levinson-Lessing (1893-1972)

"The Influence of Antiquity on European Art"

The conference is organized with participation of the Archivio del Moderno, Accademia di architettura dell'Universita della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, and The Royal Castle, Warsaw

29 October 2008
The Hermitage Theatre
Morning session
11.00

Introductory speech by Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky
Natalia Gritsai (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Antique motives in Rubens' Mars and Venus painting
Ludmila Kagane (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Paintings Aesop, Menippus and Mars by Velazquez
Krzysztof Pomian (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
The Polish Winckelmann
Eva Manikowska (The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Antiquity and the architecture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century

Afternoon session
15.00

Evgeny Korolev (The State Museum-Preserve "Pavlovsk")
Brenna - the author of the Greek Room in Pavlovsk
Alexey Lepork (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Charles Cameron and Robert Adam. Competition in sophistication
Ekaterina Orekhova (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Chapel of the Maltese Order by the architect Giacomo Quarenghi
Nicola Navone (Archivio del Moderno, Accademia di architettura dell'Universita della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio)
Reminiscenze romane sotto il cielo moscovita. Il Padiglione per la musica di Domenico Gilardi a Kuz'minki

30 October 2008
The Conference Hall
Morning session
11.00

Katarzyna Jursz-Salvadori (The Royal Castle, Warsaw)
Giovanni Battista e Francesco Piranesi e la trasmissione dell'antico alla corte del re Stanislao Augusto
Christoph Frank (Archivio del Moderno, Accademia di architettura dell'Universita della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio)
Russian and Swedish artistic agencies in Rome in the 1780s. A comparison of Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein and Francesco Piranesi
Sergey Androsov (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Le opere di Carlo Albacini per la Russia
Katarzyna Mikocka-Rachubova (The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Gusto dell'antico e la collezione di sculture del re Stanislao Augusto
Artur Badach (The Royal Castle, Warsaw)
Imitation, inspiration, compilation. In search of the origins of the sculptures produced in the circle of King Stanislaus Augustus

Afternoon session
15.00

Milica Korsciunova (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Disegni di Giuseppe Barberi (1746-1809) alla collezione dell'Eremitage
Valery Shevchenko (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Antiquity in the drawings of a romanticist (series of albums of Thomas de Thomon)
Jerzy Miziolek (Warsaw University, Warsaw)
The King Stanislas Augustus and Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture
Anna Olenska (The Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Monument to Greece, or "la bella Arcadie" of Princess Helena Radziwill
Steffi Roettgen (The Institute of Art History, Florence)
Ņalchi fatti a Firenze nella seconda meta del Settecento
Yuri Pyatnitsky (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
The image of the Good Shepherd in the Roman and Early Byzantine art