Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg is the eighteenth solo studio album from British musician Brian Eno, released in 1997, and re-released in 2000. This album should not be confused with a 1976 bootleg named "Music For Palaces". In May 2005, Eno premiered his then-new album, Another Day on Earth, at the same venue. An Opal release, with no catalogue number, this title is only available from EnoShop. The music on the album was made for an "Installation" - a
Hermitage Museum in many projects of her own, mostly having to do with play writing. The representation of Catherine alongside Minerva would come to be a known tradition of enlightened patronage in Russia. In 1815, Alexander I of Russia purchased 38 pictures from the heirs of Joséphine de Beauharnais, most of which had been looted by the French in Kassel during the war. The Hermitage collection of Rembrandts was then considered the largest in the world. Also among Alexander's purchases from Josephine's estate were the first four sculptures by the neoclassical Italian sculptor Antonio Canova to enter the Hermitage collection. Eventually the