The Hermitage ranks with the very finest of the world s art museums. It is the largest and most splendid in the Russia and contains more than two and a half million works of art representing different ages, countries and peoples.

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The art and culture of ancient Italy and rome (700 B.C.- 4th century A.D.)

Italian culture, 700-100 B.C., was the basis upon which grew up the antique culture of the slave-owning society of Rome.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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