The Hermitage, officially established as the Management Hermitage, is one of the largest museums in the earth. Located in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, the museum compound consists of multiple buildings built during the reign of Catherine the Bull. It was opened to the regular in 1852.
The total area of the Hermitage is 418,230 square feet, of which 156,714 square feet are devoted to exhibitions.
The Collection
The Hermitage Museum collection is comprised of about 3 million items, including approximately 17,000 paintings, 12,500 sculptures and 734,000 archaeological monuments.Famous Works
Features
Guided tours of the museum are available, and Craft anecdote lectures are held in the Lectorium. The Hermitage also supports an orchestra and a theatre.
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History
Empress Catherine II of Russian Federation (Catherine the Considerable) created the Hermitage Museum in 1764 when she began To gather extreme works of Western Craft. The leading building of the museum, the Winter Palace, was built between 1752 and 1764, and it was the validated Regal home until 1917. The Slender and Colossal Hermitage buildings were constructed between 1764 and 1787 to cobby the empress' growing Craft collections.The most famous painters of the Renaissance are well represented at the museum. For instance, the collection includes two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci (Madonna with a Flower and Madonna Litta), two paintings by Raphael (Madonna Conestabile and The Holy Family) and several paintings by Titian and Caravaggio. The Hermitage also has an extraordinary collection of Greek vases from the archaic and classical periods.
