TOMORROW
Date: 9th March at 6.00 pm (Spanish time)
Venue: Your house, delivered using Zoom
The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Fabergé – Before the Revolution
Between 1885 and 1916, Carl Fabergé made fifty jewelled eggs – Easter presents from Russia’s last two emperors to their wives. They have become the most famous surviving symbols of the Romanov Empire: both supreme examples of the jeweller’s art and the vulgar playthings of a decadent court.
Given almost total artistic freedom, Fabergé and his designers had to conform to only three rules: that each year’s Easter present should be egg-shaped, that it should contain some surprise to amuse or delight its recipient, and that it should be different from any predecessor. The result was a series of creations demonstrating ingenuity and creativity for which there are few parallels in any other field. Their styles range from traditional Russian to Art Nouveau, and their materials from carved hardstone to exquisite enamelled gold. Their maker’s relentless search for novelty also means that they provide a fabulously quirky illustrated history of the decline of the Romanovs. Toby Faber wrote Fabergé’s Eggs: One Man’s Masterpieces and the End of an Empire, described by P.D. James as a ‘fascinating story which combines unique decorative art, contemporary culture, history and the murder of the Romanovs with the excitement of a crime novel’. The lecture is illustrated with pictures of the Romanovs and their palaces, and, of course, with photographs of the eggs themselves.
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If not:ZOOM
This lecture will be delivered direct to your living room, live and online using Zoom.
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These are the basics:
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f) The Zoom app. You will need to install (only once) the Zoom app. You can do this as you join your first lecture, but during trials, some members found it rather confusing. We recommend that you install the app now; we have produced step-by-step guides for the major devices/operating systems. Note - you do not need to have a zoom account.
g) Copyright restrictions mean we cannot record this lecture.