DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Hermitage masterpieces [videorecording] / [Studio Quart in association with Sandra Carter Productions and Quartet International].

Port Washington, N.Y. : Koch Vision, 2004, c1992.

3 videodiscs (498 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

After a brief history of the founding of St. Petersburg and a biographical sketch of Peter the Great, the viewer is taken on a tour of the galleries of the Hermitage Museum housing masterpieces from ancient China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Museums -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.

Art museums -- Russia.

Art -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.

Art -- History.

Documentary videos.

Saint Petersburg (Russia)

Parsons, R.

Schwartz, L. (Laurent)

Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)

Studio Quart (Firm)

Sandra Carter Productions.

Quartet International.

WLIW (Television station : Long Island, N.Y.)

KOCH Vision (Firm)

Executive producer, Nina Gerasimova ; producers, Sandra Carter and Harvey Chertok ; director, L. Schwartz.

Narrator: R. Parsons.

DVD.

Disc. 1. Museum's majestic architecture ; Highlights of the masterpieces ; Russia in the age of Peter the Great ; Decorative arts of Italy, France & England ; Art from Mesopotamia to Ancient China ; Art of Ancient Egypt -- Disc 2. Vast sculpture collection ; Classical world of Greece and Rome ; Art of the Middle Ages ; Art of the Early Italian Renaissance ; Raphael, Da Vinci and the High Italian Renaissance ; Art of the Netherlands: 15th & 16th century -- Disc 3. Rubens, van Dyck & the 17th century Flemish painters ; Rembrandt & the 17th century Dutch masters ; Velazquez, El Greco, Goya & the Spanish masters ; French Classical style of the 17th & 18th centuries ; Road to Impressionism: 19th century France ; Modernism: Matisse, Picasso & more 20th century painters.

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KOC-DV-6260

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