The Hermitage Dogs: Treasures from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg Museum, The Hermitage

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SKU: YX-NPJI-6BCK Category: Arts & Photography

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One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded by Catherine the Great in 1764 and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections hold more than three million items, from Egyptian and classical antiquities, jewelry and weapons, to a stunning range of Russian and European masterworks from the Renaissance to the present.And hiding in and among those three million items, in plain sight yet all but unnoticed? Dogs. This book gives humanitys favorite four-footed friends the run of the place, reproducing dozens of images of dogs from the artworks held by the Hermitage. From full-on portraits to minor, incidental images from the edges of giant canvaseswhich are among the most surprising and entertaining animals in the books