The art and culture of ancient Italy and rome (700 B.C.- 4th century A.D.)
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Italian culture, 700-100 B.C., was the basis upon which grew up the antique culture of the slave-owning society of Rome. Continue reading
Category Archives: The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
The art and culture of ancient towns on the northern Black sea coastlands (700 B.C.-3rd century A.D.)
In 1830 soldiers digging stone on the steppe near Kerch by chance came across, beneath the Kul-Oba burial-mound (Tartar “Hill of Ashes”), a grave dating from the fourth century B.C. containing many valuable objects, among them a large number of gold articles of Greek origin. Continue reading
The art and culture of ancient Greece (800-100 B. C. )
The art of the archaic and early classical periods, 800-450 B.C. The oldest examples of Greek art in the exhibition are some ninth – eighth century clay vessels with geometric patterns painted in black or reddish brown pigment. Continue reading
The department of the art and culture of antiquity
The relics in the Hermitage of the culture of classical antiquity include a very rich collection of vases, carved stones, jewellery and terra-cotta, a rare collection of Roman portrait busts, and examples of Greek sculpture. Continue reading
The art and culture of Japan (17th-20th centuries)
A prominent place in the exhibition is occupied by woodcuts, one of the most popular forms of Japanese art. In the second half of the seventeenth century a school known as Ukiyo-e (“Pictures of Our Transitory World”) developed in the Japanese capital Yedo, present-day Tokyo. Continue reading
The art and culture of Mongolia (100 B.C.-19th century)
The first room (367) presents the celebrated group of relics, comprising clothes, fabrics and household objects, from the tumuli of Noin-Ula in the northern part of Mongolia, investigated by Kozlov. Continue reading
The art and culture of China (2,000 B.C. – 20th century)
We should note particularly some relics of Chinese writing – inscriptions dating from the fourteenth century B. C. on the bones of animals. These texts which were used for telling the future, are simple in content – isn’t it time the harvest was begun, will the hunt be sussessful – and they enable us to determine the economic structure of the very ancient inhabitants of the country. Continue reading
The art and culture of India (17th-20th centuries)
The Hermitage has a rather small, but nevertheless interesting collection of works of both old and contemporary Indian art. The collection in the first section illustrates just one of the stages in the centuries-old history of India -the period of the feudal Mogul Empire from the sixteenth up to the nineteenth century. Continue reading
The art and culture of the countries of the near and middle east (3rd-19th centuries)
The Hermitage boasts the world’s largest collection of Sassanian silver. The majority of the Sassanian silverware- jugs and cups for wine, vases and salvers for sweetmeats and fruit -were found by chance in the Urals region and near the river Kama, a tributary of the Volga, to where they had been taken by traders in return for furs. Continue reading
The art and culture of Byzantium (5th-15th centuries)
Byzantium grew up as a result of the division of the Roman Empire during the fourth century A.D. into Western and Eastern Empires, the latter receiving the name of Byzantium. The centuries-old history of this state, which played so important a part in the shaping of European culture, came to an end in 1453 when the decaying feudal empire of the Palaeologus dynasty was conquered by the Turks. Continue reading