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Hermitage Museum Hermitage Museum
Hermitage, St Petersburg. Russia's pre-eminent collection of art and antiquities, one of the world's greatest museums. It takes its name from a pleasure pavilion (now known as the Little Hermitage) created in the late 1760s for the Empress Catherine II ( Catherine the Great) (1729–96;... Read more
Saint Helier Saint Helier
Saint Helier , town (1991 pop. 24,941), capital of Jersey, Channel Islands, Great Britain, on St. Aubin's Bay. The administrative and cultural center of Jersey, St. Helier is also a residential town, resort, and point of export for local produce. Royal Square was the scene of a battle (1781), when... Read more
Hermitage Hermitage
Hermitage , museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the world's foremost houses of art, consisting of six buildings along the embankment of the Neva River. Its central building, the Winter Palace (erected 1754-62 by Czarina Elizabeth and the traditional winter residence of the czars), was damaged... Read more
Assisi Assisi
Assisi , town (1991 pop. 24,626), Umbria, central Italy. A religious and tourist center, it stands on a hill in the Apennines with an expansive view of the plains below. Although well known in Roman times and throughout the Middle Ages, it owes its modern fame chiefly to St. Francis of Assisi, who... Read more
Jacob Jordaens Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens , 1593-1678, Flemish baroque painter, b. Antwerp. After the deaths of Rubens and Van Dyck, by whom he was influenced, he became the leading Flemish painter of his day and worked in Antwerp nearly all his life. Like Rubens, Jordaens produced portraits and religious and allegorical... Read more
Mieris Mieris
Mieris , family of Dutch genre and portrait painters of Leiden. Frans van Mieris, 1635-81, the most important, was the son of a goldsmith and pupil of Gerard Dou. His tiny, meticulous paintings won him distinguished patrons and a lucrative practice. Mieris excelled in the rendering of texture and... Read more
Jacques Bellange Jacques Bellange
Bellange, Jacques (d Nancy, 1616). French painter, etcher, draughtsman, and designer, active in Nancy, where he worked for the dukes of Lorraine from 1602. Much of his work has perished, including murals and ephemeral decorative work, and only a handful of surviving paintings are confidently... Read more
Gillis van Coninxloo Gillis van Coninxloo
Gillis van Coninxloo , 1544-1607, Flemish landscape painter. His Judgment of Midas (Dresden), Latona (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), and above all the Landscape with Figures (Liechtenstein Gall., Vienna) are fine examples of his art. Coninxloo's paintings, characterized by fantasy, warm tones,... Read more
Leo von Klenze Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze , 1784-1864, German architect and landscape and portrait painter. He was court architect to Jérôme Bonaparte of Westphalia and to Louis I of Bavaria, for whom he built many structures in the Italian Renaissance and neo-classical styles. His chief works in Munich were the... Read more
Louise Bourgeois Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois boorzhwä´ , 1911-, French-American sculptor, b. Paris. She married the art historian Robert Goldwater in 1938, emigrated to the United States, and became a citizen. Her semiabstract sculpture employs many media, including wood, stone, plaster, metal, and latex, and has... Read more

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