The Hermitage Catalogue of Western European Painting

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he first scientific catalogue of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, one of the most prestigious museums in the world.

Thanks to this monumental work - with texts in English - art historians will have access to an enormous body of art, much of it previously unpublished or reproduced only in Russian language journals.

Edited by the most important Russian scholars, the 10 volumes that make up the work present the photographs, in large format and schematically filed. The five thousand paintings in the huge Western painting section of the Hermitage collection cover nearly eight centuries of pictures dating between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries.

The volumes are cloth bound (size 25 x 34 cm) with gold stamping on the front boards and on the spines with coloured dust jackets.

The volumes currently available are:

• I - Italian Painting 13th to 16th Centuries
  Tatyana K. Kustodieva
  486 pages / 402 black and white illustrations / $US245-
• II - Venetian Painting 14th to 18th Centuries
  Tamara D. Fomichova
  406 pages / 296 black and white illustrations / $US245-
• IV - Spanish Painting 15th to 19th Centuries
  Ludmilla Kagané
  288 pages / 169 black and white illustrations / $US210-
• V - Netherlandish Painting 15th and 16th Centuries
  N.N. Nikulin
  224 pages / 169 black and white illustrations / $US175-
• X - French Painting 18th Century
  Inna S. Nemilova
  496 pages / 414 black and white illustrations / $US210-
• XI - French Painting Early and Mid 19th Century
  Valentina N. Berezina
  552 pages / 464 black and white illustrations / $US245-
• XII - French Painting Mid 19th to 20th Century
  G. Barskaya / A.G. Kostenevich
  472 pages / 360 black and white illustrations / $US245-
• XIII - British Painting 16th to 19th Centuries
  L.A. Dukelskaya / E.P. Renne
  552 pages / 465 black and white illustrations / $US245-
• XIV - German and Austrian Painting 15th to 18th Centuries
  N.N. Nikulin
  544 pages / 429 black and white illustrations / $US245-
• XV - German and Austrian Painting 19th and 20th Centuries
  B.I. Asvarishch
  374 pages / 280 black and white illustrations / $US210-

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