Ball dress

 Looking in the archives of 2019 I found these photo's of  an exhibition in the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam. 

It is the ball dress of Empress Maria Fyodorovna (1847-1928, consort of Emperor Alexander III.

Here some more explanation about her.

Difference

 A decorated  iron gate in  the garden of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam from the archives.

And look what a difference it makes with another background!

Memory

I was strolling through old photo's and look what I found, Tsar SC!

It was in 2013 at an exhibition in the Hermitage Museum about Russian Tsar Peter the Great

Exhibition

One of the items at the Romanov Jewels exhibition in the Hermitage in Amsterdam.

Portrait

This is a portrait of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, Widow of Tsar Paul 1 of Russia in Mourning Dress, early 19th Century. She wears a medallion with a portrait of her beloved Paul. She looks really sad, but it is a beautiful portrait I think.

Seen at the Hermitage exhibition of Jewels of the Tsar. 

Child's clothes

This child's dress was exhibited at the Hermitage "Juwels of the Tsar" exhibition. It dates from late 17th - early 18th century. The design is from Italy or Germany and the material is silk, silver and silver-gilt thread.  Oh,  I can imagine to wear this as a child and make a pirourette....

And for a Romanov boy this Tartar, Kaukasic jacket made of silk and velvet with pearls.

Linking to "Our World Tuesday"

Portraits

The Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam does not have only Russian art items. 

In the basement are some huge portraits of old Dutch masters. This time they made a funny twist to put some photo portraits of wellknown Dutch people between the paintings, dressed in the costumes of a historical person.

Ruud Gullit was a famous professional footballer as you can read here.

Juwels

Here some items of the Juwel exhibition of the Tsar.

There were also some dresses to see, I like this velvet one.

I made the photosl with my I-phone that went very well.

Reflection

A reflectiom of myself in the Hermitage in Amsterdam at the exhibition about the "Juwels of the Russian Court" Linking to "Weekend Reflections"

Signs

A true quote I think. Seen in the Hermitage museum in Amsterdam.

Linking to "Signs, signs"

A musical marvel

This virtuoso architectural bureau was made for Catherina the Great and they call it "Apollo and the arts, a musical marvel. The desk is equipped with a musical box and ingenious mechanisms and contains innumerable secret buttons, compartments and drawers.

Catherina was also enraptured. She paid the cabinetmaker 25.000 roubles for it and presented him with a gold snuff box. Although I think it is a rather pompous furniture I would have loved to hear the musics it can play.

Shells

In the Hermitage was another exhibition which had nothing to do with the treasures from St, Petersburg. This is an assemblage of various shells made by Pascal-Desir Maissonneuve in 1927. He called it the "Crown prince". 

This is the Tartar. More about the artist "here"

Hermitage (2)

Had so many comments on yesterday's post, I'll show you some more items of the exhibition.

These gold treasures date from 2-nd-1st century BC and were found in Siberia.

Left is a Belt fastening: wolf doing battle with a snake.

In the middle a Belt plaque with boar hunt. Right is a Golden torque with beasts of prey.

Oil lamp made from a lumb of rock christal from Egypt. In the 16th Century the creatures were added by the Italians.

A mythical funerary horse's decoration. This funerary caparison and head gear was intented for a chieftain's horse.The gear transformed the animal into an impressive mythical beast.

All items were placed behind glass which makes the quality of photos a bit less.

Hermitage Treasury

Treasury is the english name for this exhibition in the Hermitage Amsterdam. The tenth anniversary of this dependance of the Russian Hermitage in St.Petersburg will be celebrated with two exhibitions, featuring a cross-section of masterpieces from the entire collection of the St.Peterburg State Hermitage.

This is a ball-dress of Empress Maria Fyodorovna the consort of Emperor Alexander.

It is made of Brocate, velvet, silk and beads.

Kostenki Venus, dating from 23.000 year before Christ. In 1983 discovered by Niclay Praslov in the south of central Russia.

Hermitage

A wall in the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam with a photoshopped image of the 17th Century masters of the Golden Age and the Royal Palace and the New Church at Dam square.

Treasures of the Tsars

The Hermitage Amsterdam shows at the moment an incredible exhibition of  the Dutch Masters of the Golden Age paintings from the St. Petersburg collection of the Hermitage. Tsarina Catherina the Great (1729-1796) bought in her time many Dutch paintings among which many of  Rembrandt, as this one, never seen in our country for 350 years. No fewer than 63 works are brought to Amsterdam for an unique exhibition.

This one is made by Pieter Lastman. His name sounded familar to me as I lived my whole youth in Amsterdam in a street named after him.

See through

The entrance to the Hoftuin (Courtyard garden) of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam has a see through sign in the gate.

Linking to "Signs, signs"

Reflection

A reflection in a glass door in the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam at the Romanovs exhibition with Tsar Nicolas II and his family. The white lights are the opposite windows in the corridor.

Linking to "Weekend Reflections"

The Romanovs

In  Museum de Hermitage in Amsterdam I visited the exhibition "1917 Romanovs & Revolution. The end of a Monarchy". An interesting rural period for Russsia, exactly a century ago Tsar Nicolas II and his family were murdered after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution.

This is the Tsar with his only son and heir Alexander.

The exhibition started with a very special setup. You walked through a fashionable St Petersburg copied gallery. Art flourished there in the early twentieth century.

As these beautiful glassworks.

I loved those dresses.

Portrait of  Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1907.

The writing desk of the Tsar.

Some toys of the children.

Dresses of the daughters of the Tsar and a velvet costume of the little Alexander.

And many photos.
Linking to "Our World Tuesday"

Can you take a picture?

At the exhibition "1917  Romanovs & Revolution" in the Hermitage in Amsterdam, it is sometimes worth to watch the visitors aswell.

This family had asked another visitor to make a photo of them in front of the portrait of Tsar Nicolas II. They seemed foreign to me, from Russia?

And looking at the result.