Арка The Hermitage. Director's Choice Piotrovsky Mikhail

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

In the Christian world the images of the Virgin and Saints as well as the scenes of the Annunciation and the Adoration have been the source of artists inspiration throughout many centuries. Evangelic themes are represented in the Hermitage collection by the canvases of such men of genius as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Brueghel, Rubens, Van Dyke, Rembrandt and many others. A wide variety of masterpieces allows us to illustrate the scene of Nativity not only with magnificent paintings but also with drawings, engravings, reliefs and elegant objects of applied arts. Arca and Reader's Digest jointly present this full- colour book, with a fascinating text and elegant design which will make this edition a perfect gift and a treasured adornment to any home library

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

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

Серия «Выбор директора» — международный проект английского издательства Scala, в рамках которого директора крупнейших музеев мира выбирают экспонаты, которые, на их взгляд, занимают особое место в музейной коллекции, и рассказывают о них. В серии уже вышли книги, посвященные галерее Альбертина, Старой Пинакотеке и многим другим музеям. Выбор директора Эрмитажа — первый выпуск этого успешного международного проекта в России. Иногда парадоксальный, но всегда интересный выбор Михаила Пиотровского, занимающего пост директора музея вот уже более 25 лет, позволит вам совершить необычное путешествие по Эрмитажу и познакомиться как с известными на весь мир произведениями западноевропейской живописи, так и с остающимися за пределами интереса широкой публики образцами античного, исламского и русского искусства

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

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Each masterpiece in the series is a fascinating art-history novella and, at the same time, an invitation to the following tale, the next chapter in this never-ending cycle of astonishing stories, of which the museum has so many. Picasso produced this work in the Autumn of 1901, during his second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old. The theme of man's loneliness in a cafe, of isolation and emptiness, was not new to French art in the second half of the 19th century and could be found in the works of Degas and of Picasso's much-admired Toulouse-Lautrec. But in the paintings by the young Spaniard the theme acquired a previously unknown sense of drama

Государственный Эрмитаж принадлежит к числу крупнейших музеев мира. Вместе с Лувром, Британским музеем и музеем Метрополитен он входит в созвездие уникальных художественных сокровищниц человечества. Особую славу Эрмитажа в равной мере составляют его величественный архитектурный ансамбль, выдающиеся коллекции памятников мировой культуры и искусства, а также богатейшее историческое прошлое, связанное с рождением, расцветом и закатом главной императорской резиденции России. Три этих начала определяют структуру альбома

The Hermitage collection of the 15th and 16th-century Netherlandish painting contains about 100 works, among them several magnificent masterpieces by Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden and Lucas van Leyden. The Flemish school of 17th and 18th centuries is represented in the museum by the leading masters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Frans Snyders. The Hermitage holds numerous prized paintings from the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age. Included here are exquisite works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Ruisdael, and many other Dutch masters

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