oriental arms and armour in the hermitage collection
Oriental Arms and Armour in the Hermitage Collection
The book is devoted to the Hermitage collection of Oriental arms and armour which traces many centuries of arms production history in different regions of the East – Turkey, Iran, India, Central and Southeast Asia, the Caucasus and the Far East. A significant part of the museum collection was formed in the first half of the 19th century and was based on the personal collection of Emperor Nicholas I. The collection continued to grow as a result of gifts from foreign rulers and diplomats, senior military officers and special acquisitions. It also included items seized as trophies in the numerous wars involving Russia in the countries of the East in the 19th century. A large number of these came from the arsenals of the conquered fortresses of Ardabil, Erivan, Erzurum and Adrianople, some were acquired from private collections. The book contains examples of different types of armaments, like armour, edged weapons and firearms, and spans a long chronological period from the late 15th to early 20th centuries. A focus is put on the decoration of the weapons. The book features Persian, Turkish, Caucasian, Indian and Japanese armaments with their unique shapes and ornaments dictated by national tradition. The edition is intended for historians, art historians, collectors, antique dealers and all art lovers.
3896 Руб.
Kostyuk Olga Masterpieces of European Jewellery from the 16th to 19th Centuries in the Hermitage Collection
The present art book features the Hermitage Museum collection of European and Russian jewellery dating from the 16th to early 20th centuries. All in all, it covers one hundred objects selected from the many thousands made of precious metals and stones and housed in the Hermitage nowadays. The core of the Hermitage collection was formed by the Imperial Treasure Gallery which would hold pieces of jewellery fashioned by the very best European artists and craftsmen. Some of them were produced on commissions of the Imperial family members, others donated as diplomatic gifts. The gallery used to have not only most expensive objects but also most valuable and rare ones from the artistic point of view. So today the Hermitage boasts not only jewellery notable for the quantity of gold and precious stones used in it as well as the earliest objects made of platinum but also best specimens distinguished by unsurpassed artistic craftsmanship. This art book introduces the reader into the world of jewellery masterpieces, the collecting of which has always been considered a matter of prestige and even pride.
4508 Руб.
Guseva Natalya, Semyonova Tatyana Russian Eighteenth-Century Furniture in the Hermitage Collection
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. The permanent exhibitions "Russian Art and Culture of the First Half of the 18th Century" and "Russian Art and Culture of the Second Half of the 18th Century", housed in the halls of the Winter Palace, display the masterpieces of 18th-century art. The Hermitage collection is adequately represented by the canvases by Andrei Matveyev, Ivan Nikitin, Louis Caravaque, Ivan Vishnyakov, Ivan Argunov, Alexei Antropov, Feodor Rokotov, Dmitry Levitsky, Vladimir Borovikovsky. Many works by these masters in the Hermitage collection have become textbook examples of 18th-century Russian art.
2941 Руб.
Альбом Эрмитаж Иорд. лестница (супер) (англ. изд.) (512с.) (Иван Федоров)
There are few museums in the world of the Hermitage range, and even among them the Hermitage stands out thanks to its exclusive features. Different physical and spiritual spaces cross in the Hermitage, strikingly and sometimes unexpectedly.... 0
7253 Руб.
Альбом Эрмитаж Иорд. лестница (супер) (англ. изд.) (512с.) (Иван Федоров)
There are few museums in the world of the Hermitage range, and even among them the Hermitage stands out thanks to its exclusive features. Different physical and spiritual spaces cross in the Hermitage, strikingly and sometimes unexpectedly.... 0
7253 Руб.
Dubrovsky Nika What the Dutch Like. A drawing book about Dutch
This is a drawing book, a colouring book and a notebook all at once. It shows fragments of Dutch paintings from the Hermitage Museum collection. Draw in it! Write in it! Join the vast world that the Dutch discovered for art lovers of all ages.
537 Руб.
Ермакова Полина Ю. The Hermitage. Netherlandish: Flemish. Dutch Painting
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
659 Руб.
Birds of a Feather…
The symbolism surrounding the bird is unequalled by any other creature. Godlike, mysterious, benevolent or evil, they can be associated with fire, with freedom, with fragility and have been a recurrent symbol in mythology, literature and art through time. Illustrated with a beautiful collection of works from The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and other 20th century Russian masterpieces, "Birds of a feather", figures the place of birds in human culture.
1082 Руб.
Yermakova P. (ред.) The Hermitage. Netherlandish: Flemish. Dutch Painting
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
659 Руб.
Yermakova P. (ред.) The Hermitage. Netherlandish: Flemish. Dutch Painting
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
659 Руб.
Spanish Masters from the Hermitage
This book offers a survey of the largest and most diverse collection of Spanish art outside Spain - the collection of the Hermitage in St Petersburg. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Spanish Golden Age, painters such as El Greco, Ribera and Zurbaran developed a distinctive Spanish style, with exceptionally intense contrasts between light and dark. Their work, often commissioned by the Crown or the Church, exudes the pride and the temperament of the Iberian Peninsula. Murillo and, above all, Velazquez added their own personal artistic signatures. Later Goya swept onto the scene with his impressive talent and confrontational realism. the exhibition will include one Goya painting and a selection of his compelling graphic work.
1948 Руб.
Gogol Nikolai, Haltunen Maria The Hermitage Cats
А great many people think that the Hermitage is only a museum. Some people know that it is also a serious research centre, where works of art are studied, restored and preserved. And only for a very small number, a chosen few, the Hermitage is home. It is to these - the Hermitage cats - that the authors dedicate their book. Two kinds of cats can be seen in the Hermitage. The real ones, who occupy the Hermitage basements, have been in state service, attached to the museum, for more than 260 years now. The other kind of cats are part of the museum exhibits, the best loved specimens in the Hermitage "menagerie". They are looking at us out of display cases and canvases by the great masters. Cats in art and real-life cats - these two sorts of felines are the subjects of this lavishly illustrated book. It provides an interesting insight into the long history of interaction between humans and cats. Издание на английском языке.
820 Руб.
Неверов Олег The Hermitage in 1 Hour: State Rooms: Masterpieces. Эрмитаж за 1 час. Парадные Залы. Шедевры Живоп.
If all the time you have available is one hour, that's fine. Specially for you we have worked out the best possible routes that will take you to the most famous works of culture and art in the collection of Russia's foremost museum. In the Hermitage in 1 Hour series we invite you to take a variety of themed tours, such as: The State Rooms and Masterpieces of European Painting (14th-18th Centuries); 19th and 20th-century Painting. The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists; The Art and Culture of the Ancient and Classical World; The Art of the East.
120 Руб.
Neverov Oleg The Hermitage in 1 hour. State Rooms. Masterpieces
If all the time you have available is one hour, that's fine. Specially for you we have worked out the best possible routes that will take you to the most famous works of culture and art in the collection of Russia's foremost museum. In the HERMITAGE IN ONE HOUR series we invite you to take a variety of themed tours, such as: - The State Rooms and Masterpieces of European Painting (14th-18th Centuries); - 19th- and 20th-century Painting. The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists; - The Art and Culture of the Ancient and Classical World; - The Art of the East.
345 Руб.
Flower Power
Devoted to flowers, the book is beautifully illustrated with a large collection of works from the collection of The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
1082 Руб.
Neverov Oleg, Aleksinsky Dmitry, Piotrovsky Mikhail The Hermitage. 250 Masterworks
POSSIBLY THE GREATEST MUSEUM ON EARTH, the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, houses a staggering number of riches, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. Published on the occasion of the museum's 250th anniversary, this handsome, accessible volume showcases 250 of the Hermitage's masterpieces dating from Egyptian times through the modern period. Founded in 1767 by Catherine the Great, the palatial Hermitage Museum encompasses more than three million works of art and artifacts displayed within a spectacular architectural ensemble, the heart of which is the famed Winter Palace, former residence of the tsars. To commemorate this important anniversary, gathered together here are the masterworks that make this world-famous cultural destination a global treasure. This splendid volume, organized to evoke the great haUs and sumptuous details of the museums interiors, features the extraordinary, under-published highlights of the collection. With works by all the great masters, including Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio, Velazquez, and Rubens; beloved works of the highest quality by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Degas; and modern paintings by the giants Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, and Kandinsky, the Hermitage is a dream destination for art lovers and armchair museum goers. Priceless antiquities, feats of mechanical engineering such as the famous Peacock Clock, and works of sculpture and decorative arts are also included and accompanied by texts from the museums leading curators. This volume is sure to be cherished by art lovers around the world.
5590 Руб.