Hermitage Museum

(noun)

A museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items.

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Examples of Hermitage Museum in the following topics:

  • Museums and Private Collections

    • Museums and private collections are engaged in both the collection and display of works of art.
    • Early museums began as the private collections of wealthy families and individuals.
    • Many of the most significant private collections of art were opened to the public in the 18th century, such as the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy; The Louvre in Paris, France; and The Hermitage Museum, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great.
    • Numerous art works in museums today were in fact donations from private collections.
    • Discuss the history and role of museums and private collections in the consumption of art

  • Sculpture in the Greek High Classical Period

    • An artist's conception of the colossal sculpture resides in the Hermitage Museum in St.

  • Primitivism and Cubism

    • African artifacts were being brought back to Paris museums following the expansion of the French empire into Africa.
    • In 1907, Picasso experienced a "revelation" while viewing African art at the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro.
    • Other works of Picasso's African Period include the Bust of a Woman (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); Mother and Child (Summer 1907, in the Musée Picasso, Paris); Nude with Raised Arms (1907, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and Three Women (Summer 1908, in the Hermitage Museum, St.

  • Neoclassical Paintings

  • The Shift East

    • The new city was protected by the relics of the True Cross, the Rod of Moses and other holy relics, though a cameo now at the Hermitage Museum also represented Constantine crowned by the tyche of the new city.

  • Neoclassical Sculpture

  • John Locke

    • Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller,1697, State Hermitage Museum, St.

  • Natural Rights

    • Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Britain, 1697, State Hermitage Museum, St.

  • Enlightened Despotism

    • The Hermitage Museum, which now occupies the whole Winter Palace, began as Catherine's personal collection.

  • Catherine's Domestic Policies

    • The Hermitage Museum, which now occupies the whole Winter Palace, began as Catherine's personal collection.