| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Saint Petersburg, Rossiya, Russia | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1754-1860 (inclusive) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Catherine II, Empress of Russia | en_US |
| dc.creator | Fel'ten, Yury | en_US |
| dc.creator | Vallin de La Mothe, Jean-Baptiste Michel | en_US |
| dc.creator | Rastrelli, Bartolomeo Francesco | en_US |
| dc.creator | Quarenghi, Giacomo | en_US |
| dc.date | 1754-1860 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-29T16:21:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-29T16:21:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1754-1860 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 188113 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 1682 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/96649 | |
| dc.description | View looking north towards the Neva River along a canal with the Theatre ahead at right; In the reign of Catherine II a grand palace ensemble was created that served as an official state residence, a storehouse of art treasures, and also as a home where the Russian Empress spent her private life. Out of six buildings of the main palace (now museum) complex, four, namely the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage and New Hermitage, are partially open to the public. The other two are Hermitage Theatre and the Reserve House. Next to the Winter Palace are Fel’ten’s Large or Old Hermitage (1771-1787), Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallen de la Motte’s Small Hermitage (1764-1767) and Giacomo Quarenghi’s Hermitage Theatre 1783-1787). The 19th century saw the construction of the Hermitage Museum at the back of the Winter Palace--now known as the New Hermitage, since the museum has expanded to fill the whole imperial palace complex--where the cream of the imperial collection could be shown to the public; it opened its doors in 1852. This was the first Russian public museum. The tradition of collecting works of art which began in Catherine's time had now become an element of state policy. Source: State Hermitage Museum [website]; http://hermitagemuseum.org/ (accessed 6/16/2009) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | stone; stucco | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | rulers and leaders | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art museums | en_US |
| dc.subject | Eighteenth century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Baroque | en_US |
| dc.subject | Neoclassical | en_US |
| dc.title | State Hermitage [complex] | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Hermitage, The | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-R-SP-H-5-B3 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Russian | en_US |
| vra.technique | carving (processes) construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | historic site | en_US |
| vra.worktype | art museum | en_US |
| vra.worktype | palace | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (Italian architect, 1700-1771); Catherine II, Empress of Russia (Russian patron, 1729-1796); Giacomo Quarenghi (Italian architect, 1744-1817); Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de La Mothe (French architect, 1729-1800); Yury Fel'ten (Russian architect, ca. 1730-1801) | en_US |
