| What's it like? |
3 videodiscs (498 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Helpful notes! |
DVD. |
| What's in it? |
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. |
| Credits |
Executive producer, Nina Gerasimova ; producers, Sandra Carter and Harvey Chertok ; director, L. Schwartz. |
| Performers! |
Narrator: R. Parsons. |
| What's it about? |
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. |
| Helpful subjects! |
Gosudarstvenny rmitazh (Russia)
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Museums -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
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Art -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
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Saint Petersburg (Russia)
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| More people who helped! |
Parsons, R.
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Schwartz, L.
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Gosudarstvenny rmitazh (Russia)
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Studio Quart (Firm)
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Sandra Carter Productions.
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Quartet International.
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| Special numbers! |
1417227745 |
| Special numbers! |
KOC-DV-6260 Koch Vision |
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