Author: Ladies' Hermitage AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Hermitage
Author: The Hermitage MuseumPublisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847842096
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Hermitage
Author: L. J. ROSSPublisher: Dark Skies Publishing
ISBN: 9781912310098
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Girl from the Hermitage
Author: Molly GartlandPublisher: Eye & Lightning Books
ISBN: 1785631896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing? SHORTLISTED: Impress Prize LONGLISTED: Bath Novel Award LONGLISTED: Grindstone Novel Award It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina's artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could now provide a safe haven, provided Mikhail can navigate the perils of a portrait commission from one of Stalin's colonels. Nearly forty years later, Galina herself is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she embarks upon that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and Galina's familiar world changes out of all recognition. Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland's debut novel guides us from the old communist world, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the glitz and bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina's story is at once a compelling page-turner and an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia. 'A beautifully written book that takes you right into the characters' world. Highly recommended' LUCINDA HAWKSLEY
Paintings in the Hermitage
Author: Colin T. EislerPublisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
ISBN: 9781556704192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
The Hermitage houses the world's largest collection of French paintings. Presented here are more than 750 full-color reproductions detailing the treasures of one of the most renowned and historic collection of paintings, from the Dutch Baroque and Italian Renaissance to Spanish El Greco and French Impressionist.
Meet Me at the Hermitage Hotel
Author: Andrew B. MillerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781577364375
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Each Historic Hospitality book presents a distinctive legendary property in a unique collection of brief historical narrative, beautiful images, and the finest classic regional recipes for the perfect gift or keepsakeHistoric Hospitality at its finest! Meet me at the Hermitage Hotel is the captivating story of Nashvilles spectacular historic hotel, which has served as a hub of amazing political and social activity for over a centuryfrom movie stars to presidentsand its inspiring rise from near extinction to present-day magnificence. This pictorial account of one of the finest small hotels in the world features rarely-seen historical images and outstanding contemporary photography. It also includes the best of classic Southern selections from nationally acclaimed and best-selling cookbook author Daisy King, with contributions from Hermitage Hotel Executive Chef Tyler Brown.
To the Hermitage
Author: Malcolm BradburyPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447205677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockholm and Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The second takes place two hundred years earlier and recreates the journey the French philosopher Denis Diderot made to Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great, a woman whose influence could change the path of history . . . Malcolm Bradbury’s last novel is rich with his satirical wit, but it is also deeply personal and weaves a wonderfully wry self-portrait.
The Hermitage
Author: Ladies' Hermitage AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Preservation of the Hermitage, 1889-1915
Author: Mary C. Currey DorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hermitage (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The acquisition, restoration, and care of the home of General Andrew Jackson by the Ladies Hermitage Association for over a quarter of a century.
The Hermitage
Author: Marie BronsardPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810118485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This novel is a soliloquy, a farewell to a lover long gone, and to the self-imposed exile undertaken by the woman he left behind. The narrator, looking back over the ten years she has spent as a recluse, spends one final night pouring out her feelings of tragedy and loss.
Author: Stanley F. Horn