To The Hermitage
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To The Hermitage
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Author : Malcolm Bradbury
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-07-06
To The Hermitage written by Malcolm Bradbury and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-06 with Fiction categories.
To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockholm and Russia for an academic seminar called the Diderot Project. The second takes place two hundred years earlier and recreates the journey the French philosopher Denis Diderot made to Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great, a woman whose influence could change the path of history . . . Malcolm Bradbury’s last novel is rich with his satirical wit, but it is also deeply personal and weaves a wonderfully wry self-portrait.
The Hermitage
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Author : The Hermitage Museum
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2014-09-30
The Hermitage written by The Hermitage Museum and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Art categories.
Highlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, are beautifully reproduced in an accessible volume celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary. For 250 years, the State Hermitage Museum has been one of the world's most palatial and significant museums. The Hermitage collections were developed beginning in 1764 by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, and now encompass more than 3 million works of art and artifacts displayed within a spectacular architectural ensemble, the heart of which is the famed Winter Palace. Now, on this important anniversary, this stunning volume captures the masterpieces that make this world-famous institution a cultural destination and a global treasure. The Hermitage: 250 Masterworks explores this sumptuous collection in the manner of a private tour, showcasing the museum's extraordinary and uniquely underpublished treasures: no other institution has thirty-six Rembrandts; works by Italian Renaissance artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian; Spanish artists such as Vel‡zquez, Ribera, and Murillo; Flemish baroque artists such as van Dyck, Rubens, and Jan Brueghel the Elder; impressionist and post-impressionist works by Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Degas; and modern paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, and Kandinsky. Priceless antiquities, feats of mechanical engineering such as the famous Peacock Clock, and works of sculpture and decorative arts will also be shown. With lavish reproductions accompanied by texts by the museum's leading curators, this volume is sure be cherished by art lovers around the world.
The Girl From The Hermitage
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Author : Molly Gartland
language : en
Publisher: Eye & Lightning Books
Release Date : 2020-04-23
The Girl From The Hermitage written by Molly Gartland and has been published by Eye & Lightning Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with Fiction categories.
Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing? SHORTLISTED: Impress Prize LONGLISTED: Bath Novel Award LONGLISTED: Grindstone Novel Award It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina's artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could now provide a safe haven, provided Mikhail can navigate the perils of a portrait commission from one of Stalin's colonels. Nearly forty years later, Galina herself is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she embarks upon that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and Galina's familiar world changes out of all recognition. Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland's debut novel guides us from the old communist world, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the glitz and bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina's story is at once a compelling page-turner and an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia. 'A beautifully written book that takes you right into the characters' world. Highly recommended' LUCINDA HAWKSLEY
The Hermitage
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Author : L. J. ROSS
language : en
Publisher: Dark Skies Publishing
Release Date : 1920-08-06
The Hermitage written by L. J. ROSS and has been published by Dark Skies Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920-08-06 with categories.
My Hermitage
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Author : Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2015-10-13
My Hermitage written by Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with Art categories.
In a memoir, the museum’s longtime director takes the reader on a private tour of this global treasure. Holding one of the largest collections of Western art in the world, the Hermitage is also a product of Russia and its dramatic history. Founded by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, the stunning Winter Palace was built to house her growing collection of Old Masters and to serve as a home for the imperial family. Tsars came and went over the years, artworks were acquired and sold, buildings were burned down in terrible fires, and still the collections grew. After the violent upheavals of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the palaces and collections were opened to the public. Now, in an unprecedented collection of illuminating essays, Piotrovsky explores the cultural history of a collection as rich in adventure as art. From fascinating intrigues to revelatory scholarship on the collection’s incredible art and artifacts, My Hermitage is a profound and captivating story of art’s timelessness and how it brings people together.
The Hermitage
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Author : Marie Bronsard
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2001
The Hermitage written by Marie Bronsard and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
This novel is a soliloquy, a farewell to a lover long gone, and to the self-imposed exile undertaken by the woman he left behind. The narrator, looking back over the ten years she has spent as a recluse, spends one final night pouring out her feelings of tragedy and loss.
The Hermitage At Warkworth
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Author : Warkworth hermitage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1779
The Hermitage At Warkworth written by Warkworth hermitage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1779 with categories.
The Hermitage
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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Copy Of Letter From Erhardus Stibarus Monte Pesantano To Erasmus Neustetter 1553
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Author : Jean Dubois
language : en
Publisher:
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Copy Of Letter From Erhardus Stibarus Monte Pesantano To Erasmus Neustetter 1553 written by Jean Dubois and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Autograph copy in the hand of Edmund Spenser. The letter and poems were written on blank leaf m8 of Sabinus' Poëmata, and must have been intended to accompany another volume previously bound with the Poëmata, the Poëmata of Petrus Lotichius, 1576. Also included on the verso are Spenser's copies of two poems, "Joannes de Sylva ad Lotichium" by Jean Dubois, and "Fr. Artifex Athensis".
The Madonnas Of Leningrad
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Author : Debra Dean
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Madonnas Of Leningrad written by Debra Dean and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Fiction categories.
“An extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime. Like the glorious ghosts of the paintings in the Hermitage that lie at the heart of the story, Dean’s exquisite prose shimmers with a haunting glow, illuminating us to the notion that art itself is perhaps our most necessary nourishment. A superbly graceful novel.” — Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times Bestselling author of Aloft and Native Speaker 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. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks' eventual return. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind—a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .