A beautiful, blue, breezy morning - real St. Petersburg weather, Elena said. After some time spent constructing a diptych (yes), we went back to the Hermitage for another look. We spent more time in the amazing state rooms, visited the 3 x rooms of British art (dreary Gainsboroughs), the Siberian section (very horsy), the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists again, the Spanish, the German, Dutch, Flemish and Netherlandish (inc. Peter Breughel the Younger) and the 'Russian Culture' (two fantastic sleighs). This time, the paintings that stood out were Maurice Denis's
Martha and Mary, Matisse's
Arab Café, Cezanne's
Blue Landscape and Murrillo's
Liberation of Peter and
Rest on the Flight to Egypt.
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| Matisse, Arab Café |
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| Murillo, Rest on the Flight into Egypt |
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