Two museums in Milan will return several works of art on loan from Russia following requests for early return, Italian galleries said on Thursday, another sign of wider tensions over the Ukraine invasion.
Petersburg-based Hermitage Museum wrote to Milan’s Palazzo Reale asking for the return of two paintings – including ‘Young Woman with Feather Hat’ by Venetian painter Titian – on loan for ‘Tiziano and the image of women at the Venice Exhibition. of the sixteenth century.
“I think the two works will be withdrawn by the end of March,” said museum director Domenico Piraina, adding that they cannot object to the request. him,” he said.
The exhibition began on February 23 and runs until June 5. “When I read the letter, I felt bitter because culture should be protected from war, but these are difficult times,” added Piraina. The Gallerie d’Italia, which operates another museum in Milan, said he had received a request for the return of 23 of the nearly 200 works in the current exhibition “Grand Tour. Dream of Italy from Venice to Pompeii”, borrowed from three Russian museums.
“They will be returned before the exhibition closes on March 27,” said a spokesperson for bank Intesa Sanpaolo, which owns the collection at the gallery and at two other locations in Naples and Vicenza.
The Rome-based Fendi Foundation and another museum in the northern city of Udine have received similar requests.
Source: CNN Brasil
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