The Hermitage Gallery
I'd like to tell you about the Hermitage Gallery, one
of the largest and well known museums in the world. Two months ago together
with my classmates I was on an exersion in S. Petersburg.I visited many places
of interest including the Hermitage Gallery.I was greatly impressed by visiting
this museum of art. It was founded in 1764 by Ecatherine the Second when she
bought 225 pictures in Berlin. Now the Hermitage consists of five buildings.
Now I'd like to tell you about pictures, sculptures
and other works of art I've seen in the Hermitage Gallery. A great number of
wonderful pictures are offered there. Everyone can find some kind of pictures
to enjoy, for example the pictures by the world's greatest masters:
Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrands, Rubens and many others. All great schools of
paintings are represented there: Italian, Spanish, German etc.
A few words about sculptures. I saw a lot of vases, staues and fountains. The most
beautiful thing I have ever seen was the fauntain belonged to Alexander the
Second.
Among other outstanding peices of art I saw the coach
of Ecatherine the Second and beautiful gobelens. It took 60 years to made one
of these gobelens.
In conclusion I'd like to stress that no one can see
everything for the one visit. To enjoy the Hermitage Gallery you must visit it
several times.
The State Hermitage in St Petrsburg is one of the
world's most outstanding art museums. It is the largest fine arts museum in
Russia.
World famour is the collection of West-European
paintings covering a span of about seven hundreds years, from the 13th to the
20th centure, and comprising works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, El
| Greco. Velasquez, Murillo; outstanding paintings by Rembrandt, Va-Dyck,
Rubens; a remarkable group of French 18th-centure canvases, and Impressionist
and Post Impressionist paintings. The collection illustrates the art of Italy,
Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Britain, Sweden, Denmark,
Finland and some other countries. The West-European Department also includes a
fine collectin of European sculpture, containing works by Michelangelo, Canova,
Falconet, Houdon, Rodin and many other eminent masters. The Hermitage, together
with the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, must be ranked among the richest
in the world in respect of Impressionist art.
In addition to the works of Western masters, the
Hermitage has sections devoted to the arts of India, China, Ancient Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Pre-| Columbian America, Greece and Rome, as well as a department
of prehistoric art, not to mention a section devoted to Scythian art. People
come to admire the collections of tapestry, precious textiles, weapons,
ivories, pottery, porcelain and furniture as well.
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