Арка The Hermitage Christmas book Shestakov Alexei

К евангельским сюжетам обращались на протяжении многих веков лучшие художники всех стран христианского мира. Сцены Благовещения и Рождества, образы Мадонны и святых в Эрмитаже представлены полотнами подлинных гениев: Леонардо да Винчи, Рафаэля, Тициана, Брейгеля, Рубенса, Ван Дейка, Рембрандта и многих других. Многообразие музейной коллекции позволяет представить евангельские сюжеты не только живописными шедеврами, но и рисунками, гравюрами, скульптурными рельефами и жемчужинами декоративно-прикладного искусства. Увлекательный текст и изящный дизайн альбома делают это издание украшением домашней библиотеки и замечательным подарком. Язык издания - английский

К евангельским сюжетам обращались на протяжении многих веков лучшие художники всех стран христианского мира. Сцены Благовещения и Рождества, образы Мадонны и святых в Эрмитаже представлены полотнами подлинных гениев: Леонардо да Винчи, Рафаэля, Тициана, Брейгеля, Рубенса, Ван Дейка, Рембрандта и многих других. Многообразие музейной коллекции позволяет представить евангельские сюжеты не только живописными шедеврами, но и рисунками, гравюрами, скульптурными рельефами и жемчужинами декоративно-прикладного искусства. Увлекательный текст и изящный дизайн альбома делают это издание украшением домашней библиотеки и замечательным подарком. Книга полностью на английском языке

The State Hermitage Museum founded in 1764 by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the heart of historic St. Petersburg occupies an ensemble of magnificent buildings on the bank of the River Neva. The grandest of all is the Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian tsars - designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Within the walls of this artistic enclave reside the Hermitage collections, about three million works that trace the development of world art and culture from the Stone Age to today

The Director's Choice series is an international project that invites the directors of the world's foremost museums to select exhibits that in their opinion occupy a special place in their museum's collection and to explain their significance • This sometimes paradoxical, but always interesting selection has been made by Mikhail Piotrovsky, who has been Director of the Hermitage for more than 25 years. It allows readers to take an unusual journey around the museum and to acquaint themselves both with world-famous works of Western European painting and with examples of ancient, Islamic and Russian art that, undeservedly, often escape the attention of the wider public

ARCA publishers present a series of small-format books that acquaint readers anew with gems of the Hermitage collection. Fascinating fragments and details that quite often escape the eye provide fresh insights into familiar paintings and drawings, sculptures, works of jewellery and archaeological finds

The collection of Russian paintings at the State Hermitage contains around 3,000 items. Over a half of them are portraits, which provide priceless iconographic material for historians. The portraits represent a wide thematic range - from images of Tsars and Grand Dukes to those of military, civil and cultural figures, members of the clergy, aristocrats, country gentlemen and merchants • The chronological scope of the collection largely lies between the 18th and the early 20th century. The portraits of this period kept at the Department of the History of Russian Culture are extremely diverse and reflect nearly all the major Russian artistic trends. The Hermitage possesses works by major Russian masters of the 19th century, as well as paintings by less well-known artists, which serve to complete the picture of Russian artistic life of the time

This book presents historical costumes of the Romanov dynasty from it's 17th century founder, Mikhail Fiodorovich, to Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexei. Each picture is accompanied by a brief informative commentary. Full-colour images of the costumes details of paintings from the Hermitage collection are placed on all four pages of the cover as guides for colouring. The book is printed on Finnish paper that allows the use of coloured pencils, watercolour, gouache or gel pens to complete the drawings

The fox family are back to explore the Museum of Slimy Things! • Following a successful adventure through the Museum of Dead Things, the foxes have returned to explore the world of slime. Curated by the slipperiest experts, this special museum introduces slime found all over the natural world, from the creatures in the depths of the ocean to the slime hiding inside the human body • Learn about the science of slime, meet the gelatinous hagfish and romp through the museum's swamp in this fully illustrated, non-fiction adventure

In the richest collection of the State Hermitage we may find answers to many questions. Even to such as these: how did people of ancient civilizations imagine the sea? How did they express in myths and artworks their awe of the profound? What invariably attracts artists in it? The story how miracles could get along with practical considerations in the minds of ancient Greeks and Romans is told in the works of sculpture, jewellery and coins. Desire to achieve material success preserving at the same time one's moral bearings is expressed in the paintings that belong to the golden age of Holland. The art of the 19th 20th centuries eloquently shows the erasing of border between reality and creative insight. The album includes more than 250 illustrations with brief commentaries

Within the pages of 96-year-old Doris’s red address book are the names of all those she has loved and lost, telling the story of a colourful life. Living alone in Stockholm, she is comforted by the weekly calls of her grand-niece Jenny, who is haunted by a painful childhood • Finally, Doris decides to put pen to paper, using her address book to recall the memories of a life well-lived – from 1930s Paris runways to narrow New York escapes during World War Two – and what she and Jenny discover may well change their lives forever…

This is a great book full of inspiring ideas to encourage children to put down their gadgets and explore the great outdoors. This book has lots and lots of activities to do outdoors, wherever you are or whatever the weather - by the sea or on a riverbank, in the woods, in your garden, when it's sunny or raining, or even at night. Activities include making a shelter from branches and leaves, going on a night time nature walk, marking out trails to follow, making your own map, exploring a rock pool, and even cooking on a campfire

Народная песня, один из величайших видов английского народного искусства, может быть болезненной, сатирической, эротической, драматической, печальной или забавной. Эта волшебная новая коллекция объединяет все классические народные песни, а также множество менее известных открытий, дополненных музыкой и комментариями об их первоисточниках и значении • Книга на английском языке • The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms • One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning