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 Masterpieces" 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.
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