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The Hampton Court Albums of Catherine the Great(1st Edition)
by Mikhail Dedinkin, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Anthony David Jacques, Aa.Vv.
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2016 by Fontanka Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-906257-22-4, ISBN: 1-906257-22-1

"In the early 2000s two albums of drawings were discovered in storage in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Purchased by Catherine the Great in 1783, they had lain unnoticed for over 200 years. Hermitage curator Mikhail Dedinkin identified the artist as John Spyers, Capability Brown's draughtsman and surveyor for many of his most famous landscape designs. The drawings in the first album are exclusively of Hampton Court Palace ..."

Marc Quinn
Chronos and Cosmos: The State Hermitage Museum
by Marc Quinnofimova, Alain Botton, Adam Rutherford, Germano Celant, Natela Tetruashvili, Dimitri Ozerkov, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Anna Trofimova
192 Pages, Published 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-906257-38-5, ISBN: 1-906257-38-8

"This book accompanies the exhibition, and brings together around 70 works, including a number of new pieces created especially for the exhibition."

The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Director's Choice
by Mikhail Piotrovsky
Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2020 by Scala Arts Publishers Inc.
Illustré
ISBN-13: 978-1-78551-156-1, ISBN: 1-78551-156-4

"Highlights from one of the world's finest art collections, featuring masterpieces from every period from the Italian Renaissance to the 20th century, including works by Michelangelo and Matisse via Velazquez, Van Gogh, Rubens and RenoirWorks skillfully chosen and lucidly explained by Director Mikhail PiotrovskyRichly illustrated in full color throughoutFormerly the official residences of the Tsars, the five buildings that comprise the S ..."

The Hermitage XXI(1st Edition)
The New Art Museum in the General Staff Building
by Oleg Yawein, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Hans Ibelings, Aaron Betsky, Dmitri O. Shvidkovsky, Georgi Stanishev, Will Pryce
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Thames & Hudson
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-34301-2, ISBN: 0-500-34301-2

"Presents the breathtaking new design of the eastern wing of the Hermitage Museum through images and commentary by a range of architecture experts Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the State Hermitage Museum is one of the world’s great museums. Occupying a large complex of six historic buildings along the Palace Embankment in St. Petersburg, its collections contain over three million items, including one of the largest collections ..."

Blitz and Blockade(1st Edition)
Henry Moore at the Hermitage
by Richard Calvocoressi, Anita Feldman, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Sergei Androsov, David. Dawson, Alexei Mitin, Thierry Morel, Frank Althaus, Mark Sutcliffe
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2011 by Fontanka Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-906257-07-1, ISBN: 1-906257-07-8

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From Russia(1st Edition)
French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 from Moscow and St. Petersburg
by Albert Kostenovich, Anna Poznanskaya, Ann Dumas, Sir Norman Rosenthal, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Museum Kunst Palast
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by Royal Academy Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-905711-15-4, ISBN: 1-905711-15-8

"The rich tradition of French painting was an important influence on Russian art from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s, a period that saw the rise of many of the most important movements in modern art. A magnificent visual record of an unprecedented event, this book, the catalogue of an ambitious exhibition of master paintings from the four greatest museums of Russia, examines the interaction of these two great cultures.Drawing on ..."

Silver Wonders from the East(Updated)
Filigree of the Tsars
by Dr Maria Menshikova, Dr Jet Pijzel-Dommisse, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Ernst Veen, Lund Humphries, Hermitage Amsterdam, Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2006 by Lund Humphries
ISBN-13: 978-0-85331-948-1, ISBN: 0-85331-948-0

"Filigree is a remarkable method in jewellery-making in which very pure precious metal is drawn into extremely fine threads. These threads are then ingeniously inter-woven to produce almost transparent objects. This book presents for the first time the highlights from the magnificent and unique filigree collection in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The principal centres of filigree were to be found in China, and Chinese filigr ..."

Pilgrim Treasures from the Hermitage(Updated)
Byzantium - Jerusalem
by Yuri Piatnitsky, Mr. Vincent Boele, Dr Vera Zalesskaya, Lund Humphries, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Ernst Veen
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2006 by Lund Humphries
ISBN-13: 978-0-85331-939-9, ISBN: 0-85331-939-1

""Pilgrim Treasures from the Hermitage: Byzantium-Jerusalem" presents the highlights from the splendid collection of pilgrims' souvenirs in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg: oil lamps and bronze crosses from the Early Byzantine period (4th to 7th centuries), icons and reliquaries from the 10th to the 13th centuries, and pilgrims' souvenirs in mother-of-pearl and fish-bone icons from the 18th and 19th centuries. Christianity foun ..."

Nicholas And Alexandra
The Last Tsar And Tsarina
by Nina Tarasova, Augusta Pobedinskaja, Galina Komelova, Galina Printseva, Ernst W. Veen, Lund Humphries, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Lewis H. Mates
Hardcover, 127 Pages, Published 2005 by Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-85331-925-2, ISBN: 0-85331-925-1

"Nicholas II and Alexandra have gone down in history as the last royal couple of Russia. With them the Romanov dynasty, which had ruled the country for 300 years, came to an end. Rarely has a personal narrative been so interwoven with the dynasty of a nation. The love of Nicholas (1868-1918) for his wife Alexandra (1872-1918) and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and the Tsarevich Alexei distracted his attention from hi ..."

Venezia!(Updated)
Art of the 18th Century
by Henk Van Os, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Sergei Androsov, Ernst Veen, Irina Artemieva, Hermitage Amsterdam, Lund Humphries
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2005 by Lund Humphries
ISBN-13: 978-0-85331-927-6, ISBN: 0-85331-927-8

"Venezia! Art of the 18th Century presents the finest works from the magnificent collections of eighteenth-century Venetian art in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Sixty-five paintings, prints and drawings by artists such as Canaletto, Longhi, Guardi and Tiepolo are complemented by superb examples of famous Venetian glass. In the eighteenth century, Venice experienced one last golden age in its already rich cultural history, ..."

Cy Twombly(1st Edition)
Fifty Years of Works on Paper: The Drawings at the Hermitage
by Cy Twombly, Simon Schama, Julie Sylvester, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Contributor-Julie Cabot
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel
ISBN-13: 978-1-891024-84-9, ISBN: 1-891024-84-1

"When the Hermitage in St. Petersburg celebrated the city's 300th anniversary in 2003, they assembled a selection of 50 years of Cy Twombly's works on paper, coinciding with the artist’s seventy-fifth birthday. At first look, even the most savvy and well-heeled art lover is apt to think "my kid could do that," and there is a (very surface) bit of truth to this. Twombly, an American who moved to Rome in the 1950s, was obviously influenced ..."

Realisms
Mitch Griffiths
by Ursula Payne, Carlotta Cooper, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Dimitri Ozerkov, Catherine Mccormack, Egberto Esmerio
Hardcover, 116 Pages, Published 2016 by Halcyon Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-907849-35-0, ISBN: 1-907849-35-1

The Hermitage(5th Edition)
Selected Treasures From a Great Museum
by Vladimir Matveyev, Edward Booth-Clibborn, Vitaly Suslov, Booth-Clibborn Editions, Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Hermitage Museum, Gosudarstvennyj Ėrmitaž
Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 1990 by Booth Clibborn Editons
ISBN-13: 978-0-904866-85-8, ISBN: 0-904866-85-8

"An overview of the State Hermitage Museum of Leningrad's collection of paintings, sculpture, jewellery and other arts. The collection was started in 1764 by Catherine the Great, to decorate what was then the Winter Palace of the Russian Czars. There are now over three million works of art displayed by masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Cezanne, Matisse, El Greco, Rembrandt and many others. This book is the officially authorized introduc ..."

Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia(1st Edition)
by Oleg Yakovlevich Neverov, Emmanuel Ducamp, Mikhail Borisovich Pietrovsky, Nicholas Romanov, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Vendome Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-86565-225-5, ISBN: 0-86565-225-2

"Among the most important private art collections ever created were those of Imperial Russia. Catherine the Great, guided by Voltaire, amassed treasures on a Herculean scale, laying the basis for what is today the Russian State Hermitage. Favorite courtiers built palaces of unprecedented magnificence in St. Petersburg and Moscow for their vast collections of paintings, antiquities, and decorative arts. In a lively and anecdotal text, Ole ..."

Masterpieces and Master Collectors, Immpressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Guggenheim and Hermitage Museums
by Thomas Krens, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 2002 by Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-89207-249-1, ISBN: 0-89207-249-0

Louise Bourgeois At The Hermitage
by Contributor-Julie Sylvester, Louise Bourgeois, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Sofia Kudriatseva, Sophia Kudriavtseva, Michail Pietrovsky, Михаил Борисович Пиотровский, Луисе Бургеойс, Жулие Сильвестер, Государственный Эрмитаж, Хельсингин Каурунгин Тайдемусео, Сведен Культурнусет Стокхольм, Мусеет Фор Самтидскунст
Hardcover, 104 Pages, Published 2002 by Hermitage Projects
ISBN-13: 978-0-9622605-1-3, ISBN: 0-9622605-1-7

"Louise Bourgeois first travelled to Russia in 1932, at the age of 21, having just received her Baccalaureate in philosophy from the University of Paris. Her second journey occured in the spring of 1934, and included a visit to the Moscow Theater Festival, to see the work of the Russian Constructivists, and to observe May Day celebrations in Red Square. Nearly 70 years later, Bourgeois returned to Russia on the occasion of her retrospect ..."

Masterpieces and Master Collectors(1st Edition)
(Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Hermitage and Guggenheim Museums)
by Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Elizabeth Franzen, Meghan: Dailey, Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh
Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2001 by Guggenheim Museum Publications
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-89207-250-7, ISBN: 0-89207-250-4

"Released at the inaugural exhibition at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, "Masterpieces and Master Collectors" presents a selection of masterpieces that highlights the distinct but highly complementary strengths of these two world-renowned collections, featuring key examples of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and early Modernism, including paintings by Cézanne, Chagall, Kandinsky, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Renoir, and van Gogh. Conten ..."

Master Drawings Rediscovered(1st Edition)
Treasures from Prewar German Collections
by Tatiana41494 Ilatovskaya, James Leggio, Leonid Kheifets, Lynn Visson, Tatiana Afanasevna Ilatovskaia, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Steven Heller, Anne Fink
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-3788-8, ISBN: 0-8109-3788-3

"For 50 years the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg held a treasure trove of work which had been taken from German private collections to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, and was believed by the outside world to have been lost or destroyed. This book presents 89 of these works - drawings by major 19th- and 20th-century artists, including Goya, Daumier, Rowlandson, Cezanne, Delacroix, Ingres, Millet and Toulouse-Lautrec. ..."

Hidden Treasures Revealed . Etc.(1st Edition)
by Albert Kostenevich, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1995 by Ministry Of Culture Of The Russian Federation / State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg / Abrams, 1995
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-297-83516-5, ISBN: 0-297-83516-5

"The wave of change that has swept Russia since the fall of Communism has now revealed masterpieces hidden away and guarded as state secrets including some of the finest works by Degas and Van Gogh. The Hermitage Museum put them on show for the first time in half a century. This book displays the paintings in full colour, together with details and associated or complementary works to show their context."

The Faberge Case(1st Edition)
From the Private Collection of John Traina
by John Traina, Peter Carl Faberge, Fred Lyon, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Danielle Steel
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1998 by Harry N Abrams Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-3344-6, ISBN: 0-8109-3344-6

"San Francisco collector John Traina owns the world's largest collection of Faberge cigarette cases and related accessories, gathered together here for the first time. He personally attests to the excitement and passion inspired by compiling such a collection, and the intrigue of finding each new case and researching its provenance. Traina's former wife, author Danielle Steel, adds a moving testimony of her life with the collector and hi ..."