MILAN, March 10 (Reuters) – Two museums in Milan will return a number of artistic endeavors on mortgage from Russia after requests for his or her early return, the Italian galleries mentioned on Thursday, an additional signal of broader tensions attributable to the invasion of Ukraine.
The Hermitage Museum, primarily based in St. Petersburg, wrote to Milan’s Palazzo Reale asking for the return of two work – together with ‘Younger girl with a feathered hat’ by the Venetian painter Titian — loaned for the ‘Titian and the picture of ladies in sixteenth century Venice’ exhibition.
“I feel the 2 works shall be picked up by the tip of March,” mentioned museum director Domenico Piraina, including they can’t oppose the request.
“Titian’s work is actually vital however the exhibition can go forward effectively with out it,” he mentioned.
The exhibition began on Feb. 23 and can run till June 5.
“After I learn the letter I felt bitter as a result of tradition ought to be shielded from conflict however these are tough instances,” Piraina added.
Gallerie d’Italia, which operates one other museum in Milan, mentioned it obtained a request for the return of 23 works out of almost 200 within the present exhibition “Grand Tour. Dream of Italy from Venice to Pompeii,” on mortgage from 4 Russian museums.
“The returns will happen close to the exhibition’s scheduled closing on 27 March,” mentioned a spokesperson for the Intesa Sanpaolo financial institution which owns the gathering on the gallery and two different websites in Naples and Vicenza.
The Rome-based Fendi Basis and one other museum in northern metropolis of Udine have obtained comparable requests.
Reporting by Sara Rossi
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