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Tour "The God of Cheerful Wine"

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21.02.2026 · 16:00 · UTC+5
Where
Yekaterinburg
культурно-просветительский центр «Эрмитаж-Урал»
Intent
Walk
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Why is a glass of wine so often at the center of a painting and a legend? The tour connects ancient Greek feasts, Christian themes, and genre scenes by Western European masters, helping to view the familiar drink as a cultural code, full of myths, symbols, and unexpected meanings that continue to resonate with the audience. Wine has long ceased to be just a drink and has become part of the visual history of Europe. To see this, one only needs to pay attention to the details of paintings: to tiny glasses at the edge of the table, to heavy jugs in the hands of servants, to wreaths of grapevines on the heads of mythological characters. It is from these details that the conversation will begin on the tour, dedicated to how attitudes towards wine and feasting have changed from antiquity to modern times. Guests will find themselves among works of Western European art, where each scene of feasting speaks of its time. Ancient Greek symposia will remind us that communal drinking connected philosophical conversation, ritual, and merriment and was perceived as an important part of public life. A separate focus will be on symposiasts and symposiarchs, on the rules of the feast, and the complex system of gestures, which were understood in their own way by ancient viewers and are almost forgotten today. Where to go in Yekaterinburg is known by KudaGo.

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