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Kingdom's ancient treasures on display at Berlin museum

Saudi Gazette - Jan 23, 2012
The exhibition will be opened Wednesday by Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities. These treasures have been showcased at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in Russia ...

'Roads of Arabia' goes to Berlin

Arab News - Jan 18, 2012
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS Transporting the 400 Saudi archaeological masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany, was not an easy task. The mission took a few days, during which ...

Cannon: Rejection not always malicious or even personal

Salt Lake Tribune - Jan 20, 2012
Madonnas is a novel about an elderly Russian woman, now living in America, who recalls her experience working in the Hermitage Museum as the Nazis lay siege to Leningrad. I read the book the way you read when you're a kid — I turned the pages and ...

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Hermitage Museum books

The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel

by: Debra Dean

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.

Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city.
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Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters

by: David Hockney
Recently, David Hockney, often described as the "world's most popular artist," has made headlines not with his own work but with his sensational and controversial theories about how some of Western art's famous masterpieces—paintings by artists such as da Vinci, Caravaggio, Velázquez, and Van Eyck—were actually created. A chance observation of a drawing in London's National Gallery led Hockney to ask, "How was this done?"

His answer led to fascinating insights into the history of art: that many of the world's most revered artists used mirrors and various optical devices—such as the camera obscura—to project images onto their canvasses and then "traced" the scenes.
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1000 Paintings of Genius

by: Victoria Charles PhD., Joseph Manca PhD., Megan McShane PhD., Donald Wigal
Spanning the history of art from the 13th century to the present, this book features 1000 paintings that are internationally recognised as works of genius and beloved cultural treasures. It is an artistic, cultural and educational resource as well as an essential tourist guide that will make readers want to visit the museums that house the various masterpieces.These are the most admired and significant paintings from around the world and will surely delight both the general public and art specialists.
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The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum

by: Geraldine Norman
Possibly the greatest museum in the world, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, began as a showcase for the legendary art treasures of the czars. This exciting history tells how imperial romance and marriage, murder, war, revolution, and international politics shaped the fabled collection over the centuries, until it filled the Winter Palace and three riverside pavilions with priceless art from antiquity to the modern day. 25 color photos. b&w photos.
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A walk through Hermitage museum, St Petersburg - Painting, sculpture & architecture

Never been to St. Petersburg? Wish to see the masterpieces of art that lay there? A quick tour of the famous Hermitage museum in Russia! This video includes paintings of famous artists such as: Carravaggio Antonio Canova Frans Hals Rubens Van Dyck Master of the Winter Landscape Bruegel Roman sculpture and vases Leonardo DaVinci Picasso Monet Sisley Cezanne Pisarot Tolouse Lautrec Delacroix Rodin Gaugin Matisse Bruegel An inspiration to Anatolij Ključinskij: www.kljutschinski.cz Given the artist's international standing there are many ways to spell his name: Anatolij Ključinskij, Anatoly Kluchinsky, Anatol Klyuchinskiy, Anatole Kluchinski, Ключинский Анатолий Антонович

 

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TJ Travel Tour - Part Five - State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

TJ Travel presents a guided tour of the Russian State Hermitage Museum. The Hermitage is one of the main attractions for visitors on a tour or shore excursion in St. Petersburg, Russia. Read more about the Hermitage Museum - st-petersburg-tours.ru

 

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St. Petersburg, Russia Hermitage Museum part 2

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The Hermitage Museum for iPad

itunes.apple.com This application about one of the largest and oldest museums of the world - The Hermitage Museum. Its collections, comprise nearly 3 million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The State Hermitage Museum occupies five magnificent buildings along the Neva River Embankment in the very center of Saint Petersburg. It was the residence of the Russian Tsars since 1762 up to revolution 1917, and as a center of Russian Empire concentrated the treasures from all over the world, mbracing the period from the Stone Age to modern times. Magnificent interiors and wonderful masterpieces are now available to the public. Since now, you have one more way to discover Hermitage museum. In this application you can find panoramic views of all main interiors in the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Large Hermitage, the New Hermitage, and the Hermitage Theater. They organized in virtual tour that provides you good imagination about museum. Practically all the pictures, sculptures and other masterpieces that you can see during the stroll are available for further investigation and can be observed one by one. Enjoy the museum under your fingertips! 183 spherical pano, 2102 masterpieces.