A delightful way to encourage children to learn colours using details from paintings in the Hermitage Museum!

A delightful way to encourage children to learn numbers using details from paintings in the Hermitage museum.

A delightful way to encourage children to learn numbers using details from paintings in the hermitage museum.

A delightful way to encourage children to learn numbers using details from paintings in the hermitage museum.

A delightful way to encourage children to learn to read using details from paintings in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.

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.

A delightful way to encourage children to learn to read using details from paintings in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.

A delightful way to encourage children to learn to read using details from paintings in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.

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.

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.

Discover one of the world's finest art collections... The Hermitage museum in St Petersburg, Russia. As the former palace of Catherine the Great, the museum was furnished with the finest artworks from around the world. Today, the museum's collection boasts masterpieces by da Vinci and Monet as well as many uniquely Russian items, such as glorious Faberg pieces. Marvel at the riches of the Hermitage with this stunning jigsaw book, featuring four 96-piece jigsaws of its greatest treasures. Издание содержит 4 красочных паззла по 96 элементов в каждом.

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.

The State Hermitage Museum founded in 1764 by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the heart of historic St. Petersburg occupies an ensemble of magnificent buildings on the bank of the River Neva. The grandest of all is the Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian tsars - designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Within the walls of this artistic enclave reside the Hermitage collections, about three million works that trace the development of world art and culture from the Stone Age to today.

The State Hermitage Museum founded in 1764 by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the heart of historic St. Petersburg occupies an ensemble of magnificent buildings on the bank of the River Neva. The grandest of all is the Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian tsars - designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Within the walls of this artistic enclave reside the Hermitage collections, about three million works that trace the development of world art and culture from the Stone Age to today. . .

The State Hermitage Museum founded in 1764 by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the heart of historic St. Petersburg occupies an ensemble of magnificent buildings on the bank of the River Neva. The grandest of all is the Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian tsars - designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Within the walls of this artistic enclave reside the Hermitage collections, about three million works that trace the development of world art and culture from the Stone Age to today.

The State Hermitage Museum founded in 1764 by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the heart of historic St. Petersburg occupies an ensemble of magnificent buildings on the bank of the River Neva. The grandest of all is the Winter Palace - the former residence of the Russian tsars - designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Within the walls of this artistic enclave reside the Hermitage collections, about three million works that trace the development of world art and culture from the Stone Age to today.