Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage

Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage. Do join in, if you like: https://likadlugach.timepad.ru/event/1339706/

He gave a splendid lecture on Bruegel earlier, which I ought to have shared as well. But that is by the way: Grigoryev is, after all, a world authority on Rembrandt, on prints, and on the art market of the 16th and 17th centuries.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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