The Hermitage

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847842096
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Hermitage by : The Hermitage Museum

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.

French Art Treasures at the Hermitage

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Total Pages : 498 pages
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Book Synopsis French Art Treasures at the Hermitage by : Albert Kostenovich

Download or read book French Art Treasures at the Hermitage written by Albert Kostenovich and published by . This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, holds one of the world's finest collections of French art from 1860 to 1950. Now, for the first time, art lovers can marvel at the full scope of the museum's magnificent holdings in this field, & read about how the collection was created.

Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection

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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Book Synopsis Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection by : Gosudarstvennyj Ėrmitaž

Download or read book Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection written by Gosudarstvennyj Ėrmitaž and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paintings in the Hermitage

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Publisher : Stewart, Tabori and Chang
ISBN 13 : 9781556704192
Total Pages : 653 pages
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Book Synopsis Paintings in the Hermitage by : Colin T. Eisler

Download or read book Paintings in the Hermitage written by Colin T. Eisler and published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Capital Collection

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Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300097580
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Book Synopsis A Capital Collection by : Andrew Moore

Download or read book A Capital Collection written by Andrew Moore and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2002 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first 'prime' minister, from political power in 1742, most of his celebrated collection of Old Master paintings was removed to his newly-built Palladian house in Norfold, Houghton Hall. In 1779 this collection was sold by Sir Robert's grandson to the Empress Catherine II of Russia, which was seen as a scandalous loss to Britain. This book catalogues for the first time the entire collection in Russia as well as those works of art that remained at Houghton Hall. Accompanying the catalogue are essays on various aspects of the formation and sale of the collection.

The Madonnas of Leningrad

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061747181
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Book Synopsis The Madonnas of Leningrad by : Debra Dean

Download or read book The Madonnas of Leningrad written by Debra Dean and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime. Like the glorious ghosts of the paintings in the Hermitage that lie at the heart of the story, Dean’s exquisite prose shimmers with a haunting glow, illuminating us to the notion that art itself is perhaps our most necessary nourishment. A superbly graceful novel.” — Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times Bestselling author of Aloft and Native Speaker Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye. Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks' eventual return. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind—a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .

Masterpieces of European Jewellery from the 16th to 19th Centuries in the Hermitage Collection

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ISBN 13 : 9785935723675
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Art of Memories

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549563
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Art of Memories by : Vincent Antonin Lépinay

Download or read book Art of Memories written by Vincent Antonin Lépinay and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the home of Catherine the Great’s private art collection, Russia’s State Hermitage Museum became the largest museum in the Soviet Union and, since the collapse of the USSR, one of the most active museums in the world. The Hermitage is a global model for the collection and preservation of fine art, deeply shaped by its need to protect itself and its holdings from the world beyond its gates. In Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage’s curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavily invested in self-protection from the outside world. During a time when traveling abroad was rare, a generation of art historians produced a culture of confined scholarship premised on their proximity to the holdings of a museum enclave. As the Hermitage has become increasingly present on the world museum scene, its culture of secrecy and orality has endured. Lépinay analyzes the ethos of Hermitage curators and scholars over the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet museum cultures, considering the mobility of art, documentation of the collection, and the transformation of expertise. Based on Lépinay’s extraordinary access to the Hermitage and the scholars who work there, Art of Memories opens the door of one of the world’s great museums to reveal how art history is made. It is an essential study for readers interested in the role that outside forces play in culture, organizations, and the production of knowledge.

The Collections of the Romanovs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Book Synopsis The Collections of the Romanovs by : James Christen Steward

Download or read book The Collections of the Romanovs written by James Christen Steward and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

The Hermitage collections

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The Hermitage Collection

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ISBN 13 : 9780912729237
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Copper, Brass and Bronze of Iran

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ISBN 13 : 9781898592372
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Book Synopsis Copper, Brass and Bronze of Iran by : Anatoli Ivanov

Download or read book Copper, Brass and Bronze of Iran written by Anatoli Ivanov and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was collected almost by accident and has been correspondingly little studied and poorly published, though in recent decades the imbalance has been somewhat modified. The Hermitage Collection, which numbers 162 pieces is the largest collection in the world of later Iranian Islamic metalwork, from the West of Iran as far as the Punjab. The great majority of these are household utensils, and their manufacture is characteristic of the middling levels of urban societies, though in Khurasan in the late-15th and early 16th centuries brasses or bronzes inlaid with gold and silver were made for its Timurid rulers. The substantial numbers of Iranian copper-alloy astronomical instruments of this period were made by different craftsmen, for a different public, and deserve separate treatment, though not magic bowls, used in folk-medicine and divination, which are noticed in this volume. In his Introduction, Anatolii Ivanov gives a valuable directoryof museums and other institutions of the former Soviet Union with significant collections, which complement the holdings of the Hermitage and together amount to a truly substantial corpus. The latter were acquired from private collections, but the core of the collection, from the museum attached to the school of industrial drawing founded by Baron Stieglitz, came to the Hermitage in the 1920s, when this was broken up. As well as minutely detailed descriptions of each piece and analyses of their decoration, Ivanov presents a detailed critical survey of the limited documentary evidence afforded by the inscriptions many pieces bear, which is of permanent value as a basis for further scholars working on later Islamic metalwork in general.

The Hermitage

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Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hermitage by : Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)

Download or read book The Hermitage written by Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun by Catherine the Great in 1764 to decorate the Czar's Winter Palace, the Hermitage collection has grown to include some 3,000,000 works displayed in nearly 400 rooms, embracing the full range of art and human achievement. Egyptian monuments, Renaissance masterpieces, French Impressionist paintings, and the great Russian works of art are displayed in surroundings that representthe zenith of 18th- and 19th- century architecture and decoration. 160 full-color reproductions. Full-color floor plan of the museum.

British Silver

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Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 : 9780300213201
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book British Silver written by Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its comparatively small size--just over 370 items, dating mainly from the 18th century--the collection of British silver in the Hermitage is renowned for its variety and quality. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, the introduction of European dining habits and Russian Anglophilia contributed to the acquisition of large quantities of British silver. Most of the pieces were functional rather than decorative, such as dinner or toilet services specially commissioned by members of the imperial family and the aristocracy. Marking the 250th anniversary of the State Hermitage Museum, this catalogue offers a grand presentation of these glorious silver items, supported by new research and documents. In her introduction, Marina Lopato details the complexities of Russian and Hermitage history to set the scene for the objects. Sumptuous illustrations showcase the exceptional nature of the Hermitage's British silver, most evident in four monumental wine coolers that are among the best known pieces of British silver anywhere in the world. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The Hermitage Cats

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ISBN 13 : 9785912084041
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Book Synopsis The Hermitage Cats by : Nikolay Gol

Download or read book The Hermitage Cats written by Nikolay Gol and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is aimed at animal-lovers in general and especially those who are fond of cats. The book gives a wide-ranging and detailed presentation of the "feline" exhibits in the Hermitage: Ancient Egyptian bronze, mediaeval European painting, Chinese and Japanese graphic art, Russian lubok prints of the 18th to 20th centuries, cats in the form of fans, toys and much more. The book also contains a unique account of the history of the real-life Hermitage cats that have been employed in the service of the museum for over 260 years.

Empire of the Sultans

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ISBN 13 : 9781874780687
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Empire of the Sultans by : J. M. Rogers

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The Hermitage

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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book The Hermitage written by Boris Asvarishch and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: