St. Petersburg Travel Guide
easy, detailed, ask a local
Navigation
  • Ask local & About us
  • Basics
    • Saint Petersburg Tourist Information. Basic Facts
    • Main Historical And Geographical Facts About St. Petersburg
  • Travel tips
    • Transportation
    • Where to stay
    • Where to eat and drink
    • Useful to know
    • Interviews
  • How to get to
    • Gatchina
    • Pushkin
    • Peterhof
    • Pulkovo
    • Valaam
    • Veliky Novgorod
    • Vyborg
  • Things to do
    • Entertainment
    • Museums
    • Sports
    • Theatres
    • Walking routes
    • Shopping
    • Excursions
You are here : Home > News > Exhibition Of Salvador Dalí To Open At Faberge Museum In St. Petersburg

Exhibition Of Salvador Dalí To Open At Faberge Museum In St. Petersburg


Salvador Dali

More than 150 works by Salvador Dali will be on display in April — July at the St. Petersburg’s Faberge museum with paintings from early, middle and late periods of the artist’s life. The focus is on Dali’s reflection on the inheritance of the Renaissance, life of Benvenuto Cellini and Michelangelo and the Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri.

The exhibition’s name «Salvador Dali. Surrealist and classic» alludes to a wide range of his works, and that’s really so.

The earliest works to be displayed date back to the 1930s, these are his famous surrealistic landscapes with a «headliner» The Landscape with mysterious elements, the most expensive purchase by the Gala — Salvador Dali’s fund which was bought from a private collectioner in 2011.

Another milestone in his creative life and the exhibition is the cycle Divine Comedy accomplished under commission of the Italian state polygraphic institute in the 1950s. One hundreds of 102 works created within this contract in the mixed arts were later published as photogravures and they all are to be on display at Faberge.

In the early 1980s, some works by Dali were dedicated to the High Renaissance masters Michelangelo Buonarotti and Benvenuto Cellini, some of them were only first exhibited in Italy last year, and their appearance in St. Petersburg will be their first arrival to Russia.

Place: The Faberge Museum
Address: 21, Fontanka river embankment
Schedule: daily, 10.00 — 20.45, from April 1 to July 2.
Tickets: 450 rubles, discounted for 200 rubles.

You can buy tickets in advance here: tickets.fsv.ru
Right now you can purchase tickets for April 1 — May 15 period, tickets for later period will be available as of April 10.

Share this with your friends:
Tags:
art , exhibition , museum
Category: News 25.02.2017
You may be interested in
Cruises From St. Petersburg To Veliky Novgorod To Be Launched In Season 2022
Public Holidays And Days Off In Russia In 2022
Railway Service Between St. Petersburg And Helsinki Resumed
Five-Star Wawelberg Hotel Launched In St. Petersburg Close To Hermitage
Emirates Resumed Flights From Dubai To St. Petersburg
Lux Express Resumes Coach Routes Between St. Petersburg And Helsinki
  • Travel Tips
    • Interviews
    • Transportation
    • Useful to know
    • Where to eat and drink
    • Where to stay
  • How to get to
    • Peterhof
    • Pulkovo
    • Pushkin
    • Gatchina
    • Valaam
    • Veliky Novgorod
    • Vyborg
  • Things to do
    • Entertainment
    • Museums
    • Sports
    • Theatres
    • Walking routes
    • Shopping
    • Excursions
  • Basics
    • Main Historical And Geographical Facts About St. Petersburg
    • Saint Petersburg Tourist Information. Basic Facts
    • Home
    • Ask local
    • News
    • Posts
    • Sitemap
    • Privacy Policy
    We are in social:  
    Weather in Saint Petersburg
    Gismeteo Gismeteo
    2-week forecast
    St.Petersburg Travel Guide © 2022. All Rights Reserved.
    When using the materials of the St. Petersburg Travel Guide the hyperlink to https://guidetopetersburg.com is obligatory.