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
Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings were made in the same period, notably the Codex Siniaticus from the Russian National Library, sold in 1933 to the British Museum (after 1973 British Library) for £100,000 raised by public subscription (worth £ in 2019), and "The Night Café" by Vincent van Gogh. In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Parliament of the Russian Federation passed a new law prohibiting the sale of Russian art treasures to foreign countries. For many years the National Gallery was reluctant to lend the paintings it had bought from the Hermitage back to that Museum, for fear that the