The Hermitage : 250 masterworks / foreword by Mikhail Piotrovsky ; in association with the Hermitage Museum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia), issuing body.

Contributor:

Piotrovskiĭ, M. B. (Mikhail Borisovich), writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)--Catalogs.

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia).

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)--History.

Art--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg--Catalogs.

Art.

History.

Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

287 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2014.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780847842094 :

0847842096

OCLC:

871242903