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Languages : en
Pages : 67
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Masterpieces of Painting
Author: Masterpieces of Painting in the Hermitage Museum
Author: Masterpieces of Painting in the Hermitage Museum
Author: Irina Nikolaevna Novosel'SkaiaPublisher:
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The Hermitage
Author: The Hermitage MuseumPublisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847842096
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Highlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are beautifully reproduced in an accessible volume celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary. For 250 years, the State Hermitage Museum has been one of the world's most palatial and significant museums. The Hermitage collections were developed beginning in 1764 by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, and now encompass more than 3 million works of art and artifacts displayed within a spectacular architectural ensemble, the heart of which is the famed Winter Palace. Now, on this important anniversary, this stunning volume captures the masterpieces that make this world-famous institution a cultural destination and a global treasure. The Hermitage: 250 Masterworks explores this sumptuous collection in the manner of a private tour, showcasing the museum's extraordinary and uniquely underpublished treasures: no other institution has thirty-six Rembrandts; works by Italian Renaissance artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian; Spanish artists such as Vel‡zquez, Ribera, and Murillo; Flemish baroque artists such as van Dyck, Rubens, and Jan Brueghel the Elder; impressionist and post-impressionist works by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Degas; and modern paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, and Kandinsky. Priceless antiquities, feats of mechanical engineering such as the famous Peacock Clock, and works of sculpture and decorative arts will also be shown. With lavish reproductions accompanied by texts by the museum's leading curators, this volume is sure be cherished by art lovers around the world.
Masterpieces of Painting in the Hermitage Museum
Author: Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Leningrad)Publisher:
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Scedevry zivopisi v Ermitaze
Author: Irina N.. Novosel'SkajaHidden Treasures Revealed
Author: Альберт Григорьевич КостеневичPublisher: ABRAMS
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Seventy-four masterpieces of French painting, long believed lost in World War II, by many of the greatest artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Barbara BurnPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998498
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Each reproduction is accompanied by a text that includes pertinent information about the work.
Masterpieces of painting in the Hermitage Museum, anglais
Author: Gosudarstvennyj Èrmitaž (Russia)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Collections of the Romanovs
Author: James Christen StewardPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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"The Collections of the Romanovs celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg by exploring the role of the Romanov dynasty as collectors of fine and decorative arts. The book investigates in particular the historic role of St. Petersburg as Russia's window to the West, and features the great masterworks of Western European art collected and prized by Romanov tsars, from Peter the Great (who ruled from 1721-25) to the last of the dynasty, Nicholas II (who ruled from 1874-1918). Included are masterpieces of painting, drawing, printmaking, porcelain, silver, and tapestry over one hundred works in all, drawn exclusively from the extraordinary collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved