Mikhail Piotrovsky Books

Russian Book. Iarkii gorod, SPb. 352 pages. Year 2011.

Highlights from one of the world's finest art collections, featuring masterpieces from every period from the Italian Renaissance to the 20th century. A new addition to the Director's Choice series, here the works are chosen and explained by Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of The State Hermitage Museum.

New paintings from old masters: Adrian Ghenie at the Hermitage Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie's (born 1972) latest paintings reference 17th- and 18th-century Dutch paintings from St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum. This book accompanies his exhibition at the Hermitage.

A collection of color photos and detailed descriptions of the Impressionist masterpieces and other important French Paintings preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. This volume presents 74 important Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings that were almost completely unknown before their exhibition in March 1995, at the State Hermitage Museum.