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Hermitage

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hermitage , museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, one of the world's foremost houses of art. It was reconstructed in the neoclassical style in the 19th cent. from the original pavilion palace erected by Catherine II. Opened to the public in 1852, it contained only the imperial collections until 1917. There are now more than 40,000 drawings, 500,000 engravings, and 8,000 paintings of the Flemish, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian schools, including many by Rembrandt, Rubens, Picasso, and Matisse, which represent only a fraction of the riches of the museum. The most popular section, "The Heroic... Read more
Hermitage
Hermitage, St Petersburg. Russia's pre-eminent collection of art...name from a pleasure pavilion (now known as the Little Hermitage) created in the late 1760s for the Empress Catherine...friends and display some of her art treasures (‘hermitage’ meaning ‘place of retreat’). In... Read more
Hermitage
Hermitage, St Petersburg. Russia's pre-eminent collection of art...name from a pleasure pavilion (now known as the Little Hermitage) created for Catherine the Great in the late 1760s as...friends and display some of her art treasures (‘hermitage’ meaning ‘place of retreat’). In... Read more

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