The viewers will find themselves in the perfect world of Lorrain's landscapes and learn about his techniques. The painter was born in 1600 in the Lorraine region after which he was dubbed later. Most of his works are focused on the light. The visitors will get a chance to see it for themselves on the paintings Battle on a Bridge and Coast View with the Abduction of Europa which form a series.
The tour is led by lecturer and art historian Maria Leonova.
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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is a museum complex housing one of the biggest collections of world arts in Russia. Today, it comprises about 700,000 works of art belonging to very different historic epochs, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the early 21st century. The exhibition includes one of the world's most unique and well-known collections of French arts of the 19th–20th centuries.
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