O Museu Hermitage abriu há 172 anos

  

The New Hermitage was opened to the public on 5 February 1852. In the same year the Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum emerged, and was particularly enriched by items given by the Duke of Leuchtenberg, Nicholas I's son-in-law. Meanwhile in 1851–1860, the interiors of the Old Hermitage was redesigned by Andrei Stackensneider to accommodate the State Assembly, Cabinet of Ministers and state apartments. Andrei Stakenschneider created the Pavilion Hall in the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage in 1851–1858.

  

       
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Madame Tussaud nasceu há 262 anos

 

Madame Tussaud "at the age of 42, when she left France for England". Portrait study (1921) by John Theodore Tussaud.   

 

Anna Maria Tussaud (née Grosholtz; Strasbourg, 1 December 1761 – London, 16 April 1850) was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.

   

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O Museu Hermitage abriu há 171 anos

The New Hermitage was opened to the public on 5 February 1852. In the same year the Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum emerged, and was particularly enriched by items given by the Duke of Leuchtenberg, Nicholas I's son-in-law. Meanwhile in 1851–1860, the interiors of the Old Hermitage was redesigned by Andrei Stackensneider to accommodate the State Assembly, Cabinet of Ministers and state apartments. Andrei Stakenschneider created the Pavilion Hall in the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage in 1851–1858.

    
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Madame Tussaud nasceu há 261 anos

Madame Tussaud "at the age of 42, when she left France for England". Portrait study (1921) by John Theodore Tussaud.

   

Anna Maria Tussaud (née Grosholtz; Strasbourg, 1 December 1761 – London, 16 April 1850) was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.

   

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O Museu Hermitage abriu há cento e setenta anos!

    
O Museu Hermitage é um museu localizado em São Petersburgo, na Rússia. É um dos maiores museus de arte do mundo e sua vasta coleção possui itens de praticamente todas as épocas, estilos e culturas da história russa, europeia, oriental e do norte da África, e está distribuída em dez prédios, situados ao longo do rio Neva, dos quais sete constituem por si mesmos monumentos artísticos e históricos de grande importância. Neste conjunto o papel principal cabe ao Palácio de Inverno, que foi a residência oficial dos Czares quase ininterruptamente desde sua construção até a queda da monarquia russa.

Organizado ao longo de dois séculos e meio, o Hermitage possui hoje um acervo de mais de 3 milhões de peças. O museu mantém ainda um teatro, uma academia musical e projetos subsidiários em outros países. O núcleo inicial da coleção foi formado com a aquisição, pela imperatriz Catarina II, em 1764, de uma coleção de 225 pinturas flamengas e alemãs do negociante berlinense Johann Ernest Gotzkowski.
   

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The New Hermitage was opened to the public on 5 February 1852. In the same year the Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum emerged, and was particularly enriched by items given by the

 Duke of Leuchtenberg, Nicholas I's son-in-law. Meanwhile in 1851–1860, the interiors of the Old Hermitage was redesigned by Andrei Stackensneider to accommodate the State Assembly, Cabinet of Ministers and state apartments. Andrei Stakenschneider created the Pavilion Hall in the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage in 1851–1858.

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A Madame Tussaud inventora dos museus de cera nasceu há 260 anos

Madame Tussaud "at the age of 42, when she left France for England". Portrait study (1921) by John Theodore Tussaud.

Anna Maria Tussaud (née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850) was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.

Anna Maria Tussaud was born in Strasbourg on 1 December 1761; her father, a soldier named Joseph Grosholtz, was killed in the Seven Years' War just two months before Marie was born. Her mother, Anne-Marie Walder, took her to Bern where she moved to work as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius (1741–1794). There she took the Swiss nationality. Curtius was a physician, and was skilled in wax modelling, which he used to illustrate anatomy. Later, he started to do portraits. Tussaud called him uncle. Curtius moved to Paris in 1765, starting work to set up a cabinet de cire (wax exhibition). In that year he made a waxwork of Louis XV's last mistress, Madame du Barry, a cast of which is the oldest work currently on display. In 1767, Tussaud and her mother joined Curtius and also moved to Paris. The first exhibition of Curtius' waxworks was shown in 1770, and attracted a big crowd. In 1776, the exhibition moved to the Palais Royal and, in 1782, Curtius opened a second exhibit, the Caverne des Grands Voleurs, a precursor to the later chamber of horrors, on Boulevard du Temple.

Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling; she showed a lot of talent and started to work for him. In 1778, she created her first wax figure, that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She later modelled other famous personages, such as Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin.

From 1780 to the Revolution in 1789, she claimed in later years to have been employed to teach votive making to Élisabeth the sister of Louis XVI. In her memoirs she claimed that in this capacity she was frequently privy to private conversations between the princess and her brother and members of his court, and that members of the royal family were so pleased with her work that, on their invitation, she lived at Versailles.

In Paris, Tussaud became involved in the French Revolution and met many of its important figures, including Napoleon Bonaparte and Robespierre.
On 12 July 1789, wax heads of Jacques Necker and the duc d'Orléans made by Curtius were carried in a protest march two days before the attack on the Bastille.
Tussaud was arrested during the Reign of Terror together with Joséphine de Beauharnais; her head was shaved in preparation for execution by guillotine. But thanks to Collot d'Herbois's support for Curtius and his household, she was released. Tussaud was employed to make death masks of the victims of the guillotine. Madame Tussaud made death masks of the revolution's most infamous dead such as Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marat and Robespierre. Her death masks were held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris. Soon, Madame Tussaud was searching through sanitaries collecting the most illustrious heads she could find.
When Curtius died in 1794, he left his collection of wax works to Marie. In 1795, she married François Tussaud. They had two children, Joseph and François.
In 1802, Marie went to London together with Joseph, then four years old, her other son staying behind. She accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a magic lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She did not fare particularly well financially, with Philidor taking half of her profits.
As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, she was unable to return to France, so she traveled with her collection throughout Great Britain and Ireland. In 1821 or 1822, her other son, François, joined her. In 1835, she established her first permanent exhibition in Baker Street, on the upper floor of the "Baker Street Bazaar". In 1838, she wrote her memoirs. In 1842, she made a self-portrait which is now on display at the entrance of her museum. Some of the sculptures done by Tussaud herself still exist.
She died in her sleep in London on 16 April 1850 at the age of 88. There is a memorial tablet to Madame Marie Tussaud on the right side of the nave of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Cadogan Street, London.
Madame Tussaud's wax museum has now grown to become one of the major tourist attractions in London, and has expanded with branches in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Beijing, Bangkok, Berlin, Blackpool, Sydney, Hong Kong, Grand Prairie, Texas, Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Antonio, Shanghai, Washington, D.C., New York City, Orlando, Hollywood, Singapore, Tokyo, Vienna and recently New Delhi. As of 2019, the newest museum is in Prague.

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O Hermitage abriu há 169 anos

  
O Museu Hermitage é um museu localizado em São Petersburgo, na Rússia. É um dos maiores museus de arte do mundo e sua vasta coleção possui itens de praticamente todas as épocas, estilos e culturas da história russa, europeia, oriental e do norte da África, e está distribuída em dez prédios, situados ao longo do rio Neva, dos quais sete constituem por si mesmos monumentos artísticos e históricos de grande importância. Neste conjunto o papel principal cabe ao Palácio de Inverno, que foi a residência oficial dos Czares quase ininterruptamente desde sua construção até a queda da monarquia russa.

Organizado ao longo de dois séculos e meio, o Hermitage possui hoje um acervo de mais de 3 milhões de peças. O museu mantém ainda um teatro, uma academia musical e projetos subsidiários em outros países. O núcleo inicial da coleção foi formado com a aquisição, pela imperatriz Catarina II, em 1764, de uma coleção de 225 pinturas flamengas e alemãs do negociante berlinense Johann Ernest Gotzkowski.

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The New Hermitage was opened to the public on 5 February 1852. In the same year the Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum emerged, and was particularly enriched by items given by the

 Duke of Leuchtenberg, Nicholas I's son-in-law. Meanwhile in 1851–1860, the interiors of the Old Hermitage was redesigned by Andrei Stackensneider to accommodate the State Assembly, Cabinet of Ministers and state apartments. Andrei Stakenschneider created the Pavilion Hall in the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage in 1851–1858.

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Há dez anos o MASP em São Paulo teve um importante roubo

O Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (mais conhecido pelo acrónimo MASP) é uma das mais importantes instituições culturais brasileiras. Localiza-se, desde 7 de novembro de 1968, na Avenida Paulista, cidade de São Paulo, num edifício projetado pela arquiteta ítalo-brasileira Lina Bo Bardi para ser a sua sede. Famoso pelo vão de mais de 70 metros que se estende sob quatro enormes pilares, concebido pelo engenheiro José Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz, o edifício é considerado um importante exemplar da arquitetura brutalista brasileira e um dos mais populares ícones da capital paulista, sendo tombado pelas três esferas do poder executivo. O engenheiro responsável foi Isac Grobman.

Instituição particular sem fins lucrativos, o museu foi fundado em 1947, por iniciativa do paraibano Assis Chateaubriand. Ao longo de sua história, notabilizou-se por uma série de iniciativas importantes no campo da museologia e da formação artística, bem como por sua forte atuação didática. Foi também um dos primeiros espaços museológicos do continente a atuar com perfil de centro cultural, bem como o primeiro museu do país a acolher as tendências artísticas surgidas após a II Guerra Mundial.

O MASP possui a mais importante e abrangente coleção de arte ocidental da América Latina e de todo o hemisfério sul, em que se notabilizam sobretudo os consistentes conjuntos referentes às escolas italiana e francesa. Possui também extensa seção de arte brasileira e pequenos conjuntos de arte africana e asiática, artes decorativas, peças arqueológicas etc., com aproximadamente 8 mil peças. O museu também abriga uma das maiores bibliotecas especializadas em arte do Brasil.
  

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Retrato de Suzanne Bloch - Pablo Picasso

 

Roubo de obras do acervo

No dia 20 de dezembro de 2007, por volta das cinco horas da manhã, três homens invadiram o museu, levando duas obras importantes do acervo: O Lavrador de Café, de Cândido Portinari, e Retrato de Suzanne Bloch, de Pablo Picasso. A ação durou cerca de três minutos.
As obras foram encontradas pela polícia paulista a 8 de janeiro de 2008, em Ferraz de Vasconcelos, na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, sem terem sofrido danos. Dois homens foram presos na operação que resgatou as obras. Na época do roubo, as duas pinturas estavam estimadas em aproximadamente 55 milhões de reais.
No segundo semestre de 2008, o museu inaugurou o seu novo sistema de segurança. Avaliado em um milhão de reais, o sistema, que conta com 96 câmaras de segurança digitais e sete monitores de alta resolução, foi doado pela empresa coreana LG.
  

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O Museu Hermitage abriu há 160 anos

Museu Hermitage
O Palácio de Inverno
Visitantes	2,426,203 (2009) - 1º A nível nacional - 12º a nível mundial
Diretor	Mikhail Piotrovsky
Website	Site Oficial
Geografia
Localização	São Petersburgo, Rússia

O Museu Hermitage é um museu localizado em São Petersburgo, na Rússia. É um dos maiores museus de arte do mundo e sua vasta coleção possui itens de praticamente todas as épocas, estilos e culturas da história russa, europeia, oriental e do norte da África, e está distribuída em dez prédios, situados ao longo do rio Neva, dos quais sete constituem por si mesmos monumentos artísticos e históricos de grande importância. Neste conjunto o papel principal cabe ao Palácio de Inverno, que foi a residência oficial dos Czares quase ininterruptamente desde sua construção até a queda da monarquia russa.

Organizado ao longo de dois séculos e meio, o Hermitage possui hoje um acervo de mais de 3 milhões de peças. O museu mantém ainda um teatro, uma academia musical e projetos subsidiários em outros países. O núcleo inicial da coleção foi formado com a aquisição, pela imperatriz Catarina II, em 1764, de uma coleção de 225 pinturas flamengas e alemãs do negociante berlinense Johann Ernest Gotzkowski.

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The New Hermitage was opened to the public on 5 February 1852. In the same year the Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum emerged, and was particularly enriched by items given by the Duke of Leuchtenberg, Nicholas I's son-in-law. Meanwhile in 1851–1860, the interiors of the Old Hermitage was redesigned by Andrei Stackensneider to accommodate the State Assembly, Cabinet of Ministers and state apartments. Andrei Stakenschneider created the Pavilion Hall in the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage in 1851–1858.

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Três museus nossos merecem

Vencedor só é conhecido em Maio

Três museus portugueses são finalistas do Museu Europeu do Ano 2012

Museu do Côa é um dos finalistas Museu do Côa é um dos finalistas

O Museu do Côa, no Douro, o Hotel-Museu do Convento de São Paulo, no Redondo, e o Centro de Interpretação do Vulcão dos Capelinhos, nos Açores, estão entre 46 nomeados para o Prémio do Museu Europeu do Ano 2012.

O prémio é atribuído anualmente pelo European Museum Forum (EMF), organização sem fins lucrativos criada nos anos 1970 para promover a qualidade das instituições museológicas, e que funciona sob os auspícios do Conselho da Europa.

A cerimónia de atribuição do Prémio Museu Europeu do Ano 2012 terá lugar em Penafiel, entre 16 e 19 de Maio, onde decorrerá a assembleia anual do EMF.

Os três museus portugueses fazem parte de uma lista de 46 nomeados de 20 países, entre eles Grécia, Irlanda, Rússia, Estónia, Alemanha, Holanda, Suíça, Espanha, França e Reino Unido.

Na decisão final do júri pesam habitualmente os esforços realizados pelos museus europeus para atrair visitantes através de programas nas áreas da interpretação, responsabilidade social, comunicação e marketing.

Em declarações à agência Lusa, Margarida Ruas, actual embaixadora do EMF e antiga diretora do Museu da Água, em Lisboa, comentou que “é um motivo de orgulho para Portugal existirem três museus nomeados para o prémio”.

“É também importante que seja Penafiel a receber a assembleia do European Museum Forum porque há sempre inúmeros pedidos para acolher este encontro e cerimónia do anúncio dos premiados”, salientou.

No ano passado, o Museu do Douro, em Peso da Régua, recebeu uma menção especial do júri do EMF, no âmbito do Museu Europeu do Ano 2011, atribuído ao Museu Galo-Romano de Tongeren, na Bélgica.

Também o Conselho da Europa premeia anualmente um museu europeu, tendo anunciado este mês o distinguido com o prémio de 2012: o Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum - Kulturen der Welt, uma instituição que alberga um acervo de caráter antropológico e etnológico com sede em Colónia, na Alemanha.

O museu centenário tinha-se mudado recentemente para um novo edifício da cidade e aproveitou para fazer uma remodelação total da apresentação e design da sua exposição permanente, composta por objectos de culturas e tradições de países de todo o mundo.

Este prémio do Conselho da Europa para os museus é atribuído desde 1977 em colaboração com o EMF e entregue em Estrasburgo.

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NOTA: uma excelente notícia, pela nomeação de três fantásticos museus e por o evento ser no nosso país, mas com um pequeno problema - esqueceram-se dos links para os sites dos Museus:

• Museu do Côa - Vila Nova de Foz Côa
• Hotel-Museu do Convento de São Paulo - Redondo
• Centro de Interpretação do Vulcão dos Capelinhos - Capelo (Faial)

A Madame Tussaud dos museus de cera nasceu há 250 anos

Madame Tussaud "at the age of 42, when she left France for England". Portrait study (1921) by John Theodore Tussaud.

Anna Maria Tussaud (née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850) was an artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London.

Anna Maria Tussaud was born in Strasbourg on 1 December 1761; her father, a soldier named Joseph Grosholtz, was killed in the Seven Years' War just two months before Marie was born. Her mother, Anne-Marie Walder, took her to Bern where she moved to work as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius (1741–1794). There she took the Swiss nationality. Curtius was a physician, and was skilled in wax modelling, which he used to illustrate anatomy. Later, he started to do portraits. Tussaud called him uncle. Curtius moved to Paris in 1765, starting work to set up a cabinet de cire (wax exhibition). In that year he made a waxwork of Louis XV's last mistress, Madame du Barry, a cast of which is the oldest work currently on display. In 1767, Tussaud and her mother joined Curtius and also moved to Paris. The first exhibition of Curtius' waxworks was shown in 1770, and attracted a big crowd. In 1776, the exhibition moved to the Palais Royal and, in 1782, Curtius opened a second exhibit, the Caverne des Grands Voleurs, a precursor to the later chamber of horrors, on Boulevard du Temple.

Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling; she showed a lot of talent and started to work for him. In 1778, she created her first wax figure, that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She later modelled other famous personages, such as Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin.

From 1780 to the Revolution in 1789, she claimed in later years to have been employed to teach votive making to Élisabeth the sister of Louis XVI. In her memoirs she claimed that in this capacity she was frequently privy to private conversations between the princess and her brother and members of his court, and that members of the royal family were so pleased with her work that, on their invitation, she lived at Versailles.

In Paris, Tussaud became involved in the French Revolution and met many of its important figures, including Napoleon Bonaparte and Robespierre.
On 12 July 1789, wax heads of Jacques Necker and the duc d'Orléans made by Curtius were carried in a protest march two days before the attack on the Bastille.
Tussaud was arrested during the Reign of Terror together with Joséphine de Beauharnais; her head was shaved in preparation for execution by guillotine. But thanks to Collot d'Herbois's support for Curtius and his household, she was released. Tussaud was employed to make death masks of the victims of the guillotine. Madame Tussaud made death masks of the revolution's most infamous dead such as Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marat, and Robespierre. Her death masks were held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris. Soon, Madame Tussaud was searching through sanitaries collecting the most illustrious heads she could find.
When Curtius died in 1794, he left his collection of wax works to Marie. In 1795, she married François Tussaud. They had two children, Joseph and François.
In 1802, Marie went to London together with Joseph, then four years old, her other son staying behind. She accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a magic lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She did not fare particularly well financially, with Philidor taking half of her profits.
As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, she was unable to return to France, so she traveled with her collection throughout Great Britain and Ireland. In 1821 or 1822, her other son, François, joined her. In 1835, she established her first permanent exhibition in Baker Street, on the upper floor of the "Baker Street Bazaar". In 1838, she wrote her memoirs. In 1842, she made a self-portrait which is now on display at the entrance of her museum. Some of the sculptures done by Tussaud herself still exist.
She died in her sleep in London on 16 April 1850 at the age of 88. There is a memorial tablet to Madame Marie Tussaud on the right side of the nave of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Cadogan Street, London.
Madame Tussaud's wax museum has now grown to become one of the major tourist attractions in London, and has expanded with branches in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Hong Kong (Victoria Peak), Las Vegas, Shanghai, Berlin, Washington D.C., New York City, and Hollywood.

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