Виталий Суслов, Марк Щукин, Валентин Шкода, Ирина Линник, Нина Бирюкова, Тамара Коршунова, Юрий Миллер, В. Потин. Государственный Эрмитаж (The State Hermitage Museum). Moscow: Советский художник, 1987. 360 pages. TEXT IN RUSSIAN.
In 1852 a special building called the New Hermitage was built, where the main collections of the Hermitage were housed. This subsequently became a public museum and accessible to the general public. In the same class as the Louvre, the Metropolitan, and the British Museum, the Hermitage has about 3 million items from different eras, from the Stone Age to today. Its art gallery consists of 50 rooms of French art from the XVIII to XX century, 37 halls of Italian art, plus numerous halls of Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, German and other European schools. In its 353 rooms, the Hermitage displays great masterpieces such as Raphael, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Veronese, Rubens and many others.
Further, in its halls there are examples of art from Ancient Egypt, the old civilizations of Central Asia, Persia, China, nomadic peoples of the steppe expanses of Russia, masterpieces of ancient Greece and Rome and Byzantium. Exhibits of Russian culture, French impressionists and post-impressionists simple scratch the surface of this immense world museum. This edition presents museum halls, treasures, exhibition plans and much more. High quality color illustrations, many full page, are described and annotated. Chapters include Primitive art, Ancient art, Art of the East, Painting, sculpture and graphics of Western Europe, Decorative and applied art of Western Europe, Russian art, Artistic weapons, and Numismatics.
Edge wear to dustjacket, couple of chips at bottom, contents very good. House in a plain cardboard slipcase. 1 copy only.
