People who paint, when they come to Russia, always have to go to the Hermitage to see.
Coming to the Hermitage Square, in front of the circular Hermitage building is a wide square, in the middle of which stands a tall column monument for Alexander's column, from the base to the top of the column sculpture, 47.5 meters high. The column is a whole piece of granite, 4 meters in diameter, weighing 600 tons, without any bonding, only standing on the base by self-weight, after nearly 200 years of stability like Mount Tai.
At the top of the pillar is an angel holding a cross, and the angel's feet are stepping on a snake, which is a symbol of victory over Napoleon. The reliefs decorated with the foot of the column allegorically celebrate russia's military achievements. Because the Tsar who defeated Napoleon was None other than Alexander.
It is said that there are four major museums in the world, the first three are not said to be the British Museum, the Louvre Museum in France, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the fourth is generally considered to be the Hermitage Museum in Russia.
In the above several museum fields, they have always been mainly Western artworks, measured by the value of the famous Western paintings and sculptures they collect, but they are not familiar with Oriental art, especially ancient Chinese art.
Originally built between 1754 and 1762, the Hermitage was a Russian neoclassical building of the mid-18th century. Formally known as the Hermitage Museum (Hidden Palace), the Hermitage Museum was originally the private museum of Catherine II, housed her personal collection of rare paintings, including hundreds of paintings purchased from Germany.
Why does the Hermitage Museum rank among the "Big Four"? Because there are two of Leonardo da Vinci's original works, "The Virgin with flowers" and "Our Lady of Lida", the total number of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci that has been handed down in the world to this day is only ten, and one-fifth is here. The other two masters of the Renaissance, Raphael's "Our Lady of Cornestabille" and "Holy Family", and Michelangelo's sculpture "The Little Boy Curled Up in a Circle", are also treasures of the museum. There are these three masterpieces of the town hall, the prestige naturally stands.
Leonardo da Vinci's oil painting "Virgin Lyda"
However, the artistic appeal of these two original works by Leonardo da Vinci is far worse than that of the other two masterpieces, "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper", but the Western art world has painted the statue of the Virgin Mary many times, and cannot paint many fresh tricks. Da Vinci himself valued the Mona Lisa, which he kept with him for life and later sold to King Napoleon III of France.
Da Vinci oil painting "Our Lady with Flowers"
The Hermitage has 120 exhibition halls in the Western Art Museum alone, and in addition to oil paintings, statues and vases from ancient Greece and Rome also occupy more than 20 halls.
The Oriental Art Museum includes art treasures from ancient Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Turkey and other ancient civilizations.
The Museum of Far Eastern Art has a large collection of Chinese artifacts and artworks, including more than 200 Yin Shang era oracle bones, rare silks and embroideries from the 1st century AD, samples of sculptures and murals from the Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang, as well as Chinese porcelain, enamel, lacquerware, landscapes and female figures. Includes 3,000 Chinese New Year paintings and Thai artworks.
The tour guide said that because of the controversy surrounding the exhibits, they were not open for viewing.
In short, the hermitage museum has a vast collection, and it is said that if you want to walk through 350 exhibition halls, the journey is about 22 kilometers.
The Hermitage has a total of 1050 rooms. Our Forbidden City has a total of 9999 rooms and a half, and the area seems to be larger than the Hermitage, but its fame in the World Museum is far less than that of the Hermitage. (Image from the Internet)
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