The starting price for each of the works has been set at $10,000 and all proceeds from the sale will go to the museum.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:42 am
The NFT (Non-Fungible Token) boom continues. The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has put up for auction five works of art NFTs: Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna Litta , Giorgione's Judith , Van Gogh's Lilacs , Wassily Kandinsky's Composition VI , and Claude Monet's Corner of the Garden at Montgeron .
As the museum explains in a statement , all the tokenized united arab emirates number data digital works have been created in two copies . One of them will be kept at the Hermitage and the other is being auctioned on Binance NFT, the leading international blockchain ecosystem marketplace Binance. All digital copies have been signed by Mikhail Piotrovsky , General Director of the Hermitage, who confirms the authenticity of each work in the limited series by including the precise date and time of the signature. The location of the signing, the halls of the Hermitage, is also preserved in the metadata.
“The Hermitage is an innovative curator, a curator museum that uses the latest technologies ,” Piotrovsky said, adding that they do not intend to use tokens to address financial issues. “We want to see how this format is received. The NFT is a philosophy, the aesthetics of ownership. Digital copies of works of art fill the internet, where, in effect, everyone has access to them, but an NFT gives a sense of ownership and, in our case, a sense of participation in a great museum.”
For her part, Helen Hai, director of Binance NFT, stresses that they are witnessing a “historic moment” thanks to the entry into the NFT market of one of the largest museums in the world. “The Binance NFT market has become a thread that unites the world of art and technology , and for us it is a great honor,” she says.
As the museum explains in a statement , all the tokenized united arab emirates number data digital works have been created in two copies . One of them will be kept at the Hermitage and the other is being auctioned on Binance NFT, the leading international blockchain ecosystem marketplace Binance. All digital copies have been signed by Mikhail Piotrovsky , General Director of the Hermitage, who confirms the authenticity of each work in the limited series by including the precise date and time of the signature. The location of the signing, the halls of the Hermitage, is also preserved in the metadata.
“The Hermitage is an innovative curator, a curator museum that uses the latest technologies ,” Piotrovsky said, adding that they do not intend to use tokens to address financial issues. “We want to see how this format is received. The NFT is a philosophy, the aesthetics of ownership. Digital copies of works of art fill the internet, where, in effect, everyone has access to them, but an NFT gives a sense of ownership and, in our case, a sense of participation in a great museum.”
For her part, Helen Hai, director of Binance NFT, stresses that they are witnessing a “historic moment” thanks to the entry into the NFT market of one of the largest museums in the world. “The Binance NFT market has become a thread that unites the world of art and technology , and for us it is a great honor,” she says.