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Hermitage originated in 1764 as a private collection of Catherine II, after it acquired in Berlin from the Berlin merchant I.Gotzkowsky collection of 225 works by Dutch and Flemish artists.Initially, most of the paintings housed in a quiet and secluded apartments of the palace, received the French name "Hermitage" retreat.February 17, 1852 the opening of the New Hermitage, one of the five interconnected buildings on the Palace Embankment, designed by the Bavarian architect Leo von Klenze 1784-1864.
At the same time publicly opened and the entire museum.By the time he counted the richest collections of monuments of ancient oriental, Egyptian, ancient and medieval cultures, art, Western and Eastern Europe, archaeological and artistic monuments of Asia, the Russian culture VIII-XIX centuries.Important sources of replenishment in the second half of the century are gifts and purchases from local collectors.
By the beginning of the XIX century in the museum has kept many thousands of paintings.The collection of paintings of the Hermitage is already in those days were very valuable works, including the medieval masters, such as the world-famous painting of Rembrandt`s "Return of the Prodigal Son," which was written in the Netherlands in the XVII century, in the crucial period between the medieval and new age.In 1956 he opened the third floor of the Hermitage, with a collection of Impressionists.
At the same time the fall was an exhibition of Picasso.Modern State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the Neva River in the heart of St. Petersburg.
The core of the Hermitage and the whole of St. Petersburg - the Winter Palace.For a half century in the Hermitage, one collected from the world`s largest collections, numbering about three million works of art and monuments of world culture, from the Stone Age to the present century. |
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