Скачать или смотреть Highlights of the Masterpieces | The Hermitage

Russia's fascination with world art and culture is represented by nearly three million exhibits, collected over 400 years at the Hermitage. From Catherine the Great's original assemblage of paintings to the additions of the rulers and curators that followed, the Hermitage is rivaled only by the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

This 18-part series examines the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, in all its glory. Here is the art of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, Velasquez, El Greco, Rubens, Renoir, the great classical sculptors, the artisans of ancient China, Greece and Egypt, and more. Filmed when the museum was off limits to Western eyes for nearly a century, and before the Fall of the Soviet Union.

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