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"They’ve traveled, they’ve studied abroad, they’ve met foreign artists, and they’ve had this extraordinary relationship with what was happening in other places." — Rosalind Polly Blakesley, University of Cambridge, Tatiana Yudenkova and Irina Vakar, Государственная Третьяковская галерея, describe how since the late 19th century Russian artists liberated themselves from the academic rules that governed Realist painting in Russia. Full video: https://bit.ly/38jb4kO #BarberiniExperts #Impressionism