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The Romanovs Collect: European Art from the Hermitage (exhibition)

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44:, Russia. UMMA was the only North American venue to host it, and a team of curators from the Hermitage traveled to Ann Arbor for the duration of the show. It was the first large-scale partnership between the Hermitage and a North American university museum, and negotiations took about three years to complete. The exhibition was sponsored by the 71:
Steward said of the exhibition, "The uneasy tension within the royal family grew out of a desire to be of their time and acknowledgment of democratic values amidst a fundamental distrust of the people. Nonetheless, this exhibit seeks to humanize a complex and tragic family history."
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The show included 142 objects, by approximately 80 different European (including French, English, Dutch, and German) artists and artisans. It include paintings, sculptures, ceramics, porcelain, tapestry, and furniture.
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Each piece included was accompanied by a label explaining the lineage of the piece, including information about who acquired it and often some context about his or her reign.
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who collected the pieces, all the way from the founding of St. Petersburg in 1703 through the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. A large percentage of pieces were collected by
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The collections of the Romanovs : European art from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
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pieces from the "Cameo" dinner and dessert service made for Catherine the Great by the royal
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Mather, Frank Jewett; Sherman, Frederic Fairchild (July 2003).
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a Meissen candlestick, cup and saucer, plate and sauce boat
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The exhibition was organized chronologically by the
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University of Michigan Museum of Art
the Hermitage Museum
Saint Petersburg
Ford Motor Company
Romanov tsars
Catherine the Great
Nicholas II
Elizabeth of Russia
Meissen porcelain
Order of St. Andrew
Marten Heemskerk
David Roentgen
Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Josiah Wedgewood
Caspar David Friedrich
Hubert Robert
Hans Bol
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Anton Raphael Mengs
Entrée du port de Palerme au clair de lune
Joseph Vernet








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