| Description |
287 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
A long two hundred and fifty years / Mikhail Piotrovsky -- Ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Asian art -- Scythian and Bosporan antiquities -- Greek and Roman antiquities -- Byzantine and ancient Russian art -- Medieval European decorative arts -- Western European painting, 13th-early 18th century -- Western European sculpture, 15th-early 18th century -- Western European painting, mid-18th-19th century -- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism -- Symbolists and the Nabis artists -- Matisse and the Fauves -- The European Avant-Garde -- Western European sculpture, 19th-early 20th century. |
| Summary |
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 Velázquez, 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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Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) -- Catalogs.
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Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) -- History.
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Art -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- Catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Piotrovskiĭ, M. B. (Mikhail Borisovich), writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780847842094: $45.00 |
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0847842096 |
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