The Hermitage has a history going back over two and a half centuries. In that time, the museum has built up one of the world's largest collections, numbering around three million works of art and artefacts of world culture, from the Stone Age almost to the present day. This book will enable you to view the splendid state rooms of the main Russian imperial palace and masterpieces of European painting from the 14th to 18th centuries by Breughel and Cranach, Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael, Titian and Veronese, Caravaggio and Tintoretto Rubens, Rembrandt and many others. Detailed plans will prevent you getting lost and an informative text will keep you from getting bored.
The Hermitage has a history going back over two and a half centuries. In that time, the museum has built up one of the world's largest collections, numbering around three million works of art and artefacts of world culture, from the Stone Age almost to the present day. This book will enable you to view the splendid state rooms of the main Russian imperial palace and masterpieces of European painting from the 14th to 18th centuries by Breughel and Cranach, Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael, Titian and Veronese, Caravaggio and Tintoretto Rubens, Rembrandt and many others. Detailed plans will prevent you getting lost and an informative text will keep you from getting bored.
