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Author : Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785995004349
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Hermitage at 250 written by Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Hermitage Museum
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847842096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Hermitage written by The Hermitage Museum and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847843785
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book My Hermitage written by Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a memoir, the museum’s longtime director takes the reader on a private tour of this global treasure. Holding one of the largest collections of Western art in the world, the Hermitage is also a product of Russia and its dramatic history. Founded by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, the stunning Winter Palace was built to house her growing collection of Old Masters and to serve as a home for the imperial family. Tsars came and went over the years, artworks were acquired and sold, buildings were burned down in terrible fires, and still the collections grew. After the violent upheavals of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the palaces and collections were opened to the public. Now, in an unprecedented collection of illuminating essays, Piotrovsky explores the cultural history of a collection as rich in adventure as art. From fascinating intrigues to revelatory scholarship on the collection’s incredible art and artifacts, My Hermitage is a profound and captivating story of art’s timelessness and how it brings people together.
Author : Susan Jaques
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771144
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Empress of Art written by Susan Jaques and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German princess who married a decadent and lazy Russian prince, Catherine mobilized support amongst the Russian nobles, playing off of her husband's increasing corruption and abuse of power. She then staged a coup that ended with him being strangled with his own scarf in the halls of the palace, and herself crowned the Empress of Russia. Intelligent and determined, Catherine modeled herself off of her grandfather in-law, Peter the Great, and sought to further modernize and westernize Russia. She believed that the best way to do this was through a ravenous acquisition of art, which Catherine often used as a form of diplomacy with other powers throughout Europe. She was a self-proclaimed "glutton for art" and she would be responsible for the creation of the Hermitage, one of the largest museums in the world, second only to the Louvre. Catherine also spearheaded the further expansion of St. Petersburg, and the magnificent architectural wonder the city became is largely her doing. There are few women in history more fascinating than Catherine the Great, and for the first time, Susan Jaques brings her to life through the prism of art.
Author : James Talboys Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of India from the Earliest Ages written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Ahearn
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1883060141
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Collected Books written by Allen Ahearn and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
Author : James Talboys Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The History of India from the Earliest Ages: The Rámáyana and the Brahmanic period written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Power Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Typical Net Monthly Bills written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, ... written by John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters; in which is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, Etc. (Supplement.). written by John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Smith (dealer in pictures, London.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters written by John Smith (dealer in pictures, London.) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1756 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Livingstone-Learmonth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244338
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Wines of the Northern Rhône written by John Livingstone-Learmonth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes assessments of thousands of wines, with guide dates on when to drink and how long to age them; winemakers's views on what foods best accompany their wines; new vineyard maps for each appellation; etc.
Author : Georgina Ferry
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782833854
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book A Better World is Possible written by Georgina Ferry and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 17 March 1967, the 26-year-old David Sainsbury wrote out a cheque for 5 and established the trust which would become the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Gatsby's purpose was ambitious: to make the world a better place by taking on some of the social, economic and scientific challenges that face humanity. In recent years, Gatsby has spent around 50m annually on charitable activities, and by its 50th anniversary in 2017 it will have spent over 1bn on programmes that range from reducing poverty in Africa to raising the standard of technical education, investigating how plants fight disease, and finding out how the brain works. But despite Gatsby's wide reach and the level of its donations, it has always functioned discreetly and out of the public eye. Georgina Ferry's in-depth account reveals its achievements and invites us to question how the super-rich - and even the moderately affluent - might spend their money more wisely and for the common good.
Author : Maryann P. DiEdwardo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527578828
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Cultural Poetics and Social Movements Initiated by Literature written by Maryann P. DiEdwardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents critiques about African American authors and poets, as well as a composer, who have contributed towards social change, namely Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Terence Blanchard, Ann Petry, and Rita Dove. It also discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American writer, and his novel The Sympathizer.
Author : Margaret Littman
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1612381502
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Moon Tennessee written by Margaret Littman and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers historical and travel information for Tennessee, including attractions, sights, accommodations, restaurants, and activities.
Author : James L. McDonough
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572333222
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Nashville written by James L. McDonough and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's forces ravaged Atlanta in 1864, Ulysses S. Grant urged him to complete the primary mission Grant had given him: to destroy the Confederate Army in Georgia. Attempting to draw the Union army north, General John Bell Hood's Confederate forces focused their attacks on Sherman's supply line, the railroad from Chattanooga, and then moved across north Alabama and into Tennessee. As Sherman initially followed Hood's men to protect the railroad, Hood hoped to lure the Union forces out of the lower South and, perhaps more important, to recapture the long-occupied city of Nashville. Though Hood managed to cut communication between Sherman and George H. Thomas's Union forces by placing his troops across the railroads south of the city, Hood's men were spread over a wide area and much of the Confederate cavalry was in Murfreesboro. Hood's army was ultimately routed. Union forces pursued the Confederate troops for ten days until they recrossed the Tennessee River. The decimated Army of Tennessee (now numbering only about 15,000) retreated into northern Alabama and eventually Mississippi. Hood requested to be relieved of his command. Less than four months later, the war was over. Written in a lively and engaging style, Nashville presents new interpretations of the critical issues of the battle. James Lee McDonough sheds light on how the Union army stole past the Confederate forces at Spring Hill and their subsequent clash, which left six Confederate generals dead. He offers insightful analysis of John Bell Hood's overconfidence in his position and of the leadership and decision-making skills of principal players such as Sherman, George Henry Thomas, John M. Schofield, Hood, and others. Within the pages of Nashville, McDonough's subjects, both common soldiers and officers, present their unforgettable stories in their own words. Unlike most earlier studies of the battle of Nashville, McDonough's account examines the contributions of black Union regiments and gives a detailed account of the battle itself as well as its place in the overall military campaign. Filled with new information from important primary sources and fresh insights, Nashville will become the definitive treatment of a crucial battleground of the Civil War. James Lee McDonough is retired professor of history from Auburn University. He is the author of numerous books on the Civil War, including Shiloh--In Hell Before Night, Chattanooga--Death Grip on the Confederacy, and War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville.
