BEAUTIFUL BOOK - Ars Mundi éditions 1987 - hardback/Carton w - Lot 718

BEAUTIFUL BOOK - Ars Mundi éditions 1987 - hardback/Carton with dust jacket - 392 pages - 33.5 x 28.5 cm. MUSEE DE L' ERMITAGE - L' ART DE LA PREHISTOIRE A NOS JOURS. More than two and a half million works of art are housed at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), one of the world's greatest cultural museums. Objects illustrating the history of the peoples of the Russian/U.S.S.R. territory from the Stone Age to the modern period, but also world history, Greek, Roman and Persian cities etc., world painting and in particular the great European painters of the Middle Ages, from the Renaissance to Impressionism..., Eastern art... And let's not forget the NUMISMATICS department: one million one hundred thousand pieces from all over the world, the rarest of which are reproduced and commented on in the book. Art premiers, weapons, jewelry, glassware and pottery, paintings, prints, statues, icons, tableware and more...