Hermitage unveils damaged Danae. (the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, will begin displaying the restored Rembrandt painting on Oct 14, 1997)(Brief Article)

Art in America | October 1, 1997| | Copyright

The long awaited but not quite triumphant return to public view on Oct. 14 of Rembrandt's Danae at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, marks the end of a grueling effort to salvage one of the museum's most celebrated and sensuous masterpieces. An acid-and-knife attack 12 years ago transformed the reclining nude into a "dark effervescing mass," in the words of one of the conservators who worked on the painting. The newly restored work is the centerpiece of an 18-month-long exhibition, "Danae" The Fate of Rembrandt's Masterpiece," installed in room adjacent to the ...

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