Paintings in the Hermitage

In 1765, Catherine the Great began to collect paintings of the highest quality for political as well as aesthetic reasons . Her collection was the seed that grew into one of the greatest museums in the world . Never before has such a vast number of works from this magnificent collection been published in one volume.

• Author
• Colin Eisler, Vitaly A. Suslov, B.B. Piotrovsky

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 649

• Publisher
• Harry N. Abrams

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781556704192

• Genres
• art, russia

• Release date
• 1995