· TheDqnce by Henri Matisse, firstversion dating 1909t oils on canvas 8ftx 12 ft. Exhibition of 100 masterpieces from the Hermitage

In the year of the Jubilee, Rome and from the later generations. Italy are taking pride in being able to offer Joseph Paul Cassar The artists represented in the exhibition visitors fromall over the world an are Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, exhibition of extraordinary quality with Camille Pissarro, AlfredSisley, Eugene the cooperation of St Peters burg's Boudin, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Hermitage Museum and the Russian setting of the Piazza del Quirinale, takes a Odilon Redon, Henri Rousseau, Maurice Ministryof Culture. new role as a major internationale Denis, Edouard Vuillard,Pierr f;)Bonnard, The exhibition which is hosted at the cultural centre, as stated by Luiga Zanda, FelixVallotton, Louis Valtat, Albert Scuderie Papalial Quirinale traces the president of the Rome Agency forthe Marquet, Henri Manguin, Maurice de roots of the evolution oHhe language of Jubilee Preparations. Vlaminck, Maurice Utrillo, Kees Van western art through celebrated works that With a surface areaof30,000 square Dongen, Andre Derain and Henri Matisse. have played a substantial role in the metres, the Scuderie has remained unused Their workshave leftthe visitors development of the European visual forthe last 20 years. The president of the speechless. alphabet. republic has granted Rome city council The highlight of th_e exhibition is A 268-page catalogue published by permission to use it temporarily as a . Matis§e's TheDance·executed in 1910, a Mondadori Publishing House, complete centre forart exhibitions during the Holy fairlylarge canvas of 102 feetby 154 with critical commentaries on the works, Year. inches, which has become the symbol of accompanies the exhibition. This The premises were converted complete 20th century aesthetics. The work is exhibition which is estimated to be visited with the latest safetycond itions. The regarded to be the artist's answer to the by approximately 6,000 people per day, is restoration work was planned by the Picasso's important work, Les Demoiselles considered to be the most important architect Gae Aulenti and directed by the D'Avignonproduced a few years earlier in cultural event of 2000. Rome Superintendency of the 1906-07. The exhibition seeks to develop the Environmental and Architectural With referenceto The Dance, Matisse traditional ties between Russia and Italy, Heritage. , · had stated that he wanted to achieve a and between St Petersburg and Italy, and The 100 key works are drawn fromthe flyingdance in a circle up on the hill all paves the way fortheir continuation in the astonishing collections ofthe Russian obtained with the fewestand simplest 21st century, the new millennium. Some of dealers Sergei Shchukin and Ivan means, so that he could express his inner the works exhibited are images that form Morozov-who, with extraordinary taste, vision to the full. an integral part of the symbolic universe document the essential featuresof the This exhibition in the rooms of the of the West. Many of the works are on crucial period in French art that stretches Scuderie, a new venue for culture, is an display outside Russia forthe firsttime. fromImpressionism to movements of the opportunity to ponder and reflecton the After nearly 300 years, this splendid 20th century. origins of modern art and all that followed. Roman Palazzo, which is part of the These works on show are landmarks in It also indicates that time has property attached to the presWency of the art history and without them there can be demonstrated the farsightednessand Italian Republic arid jqins Palazzo della no understanding of the art period in divine gift of impeccable taste of these Consulta to complete the extraordinary question or of the expressions that came collectors.