"The Hermitage Treasures of World Art" is a summary of the vast collections in the State Hermitage Museum, a world-renowned museum founded by Catherine the Great in 1764. The collection features over three million items spanning the Stone Age to the present, with a rich focus on Western European and Russian art, including works by masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Matisse. It also includes extensive holdings of antiquities, Asian art, sculpture, decorative arts, and numismatics, housed in a complex of historic buildings, most famously the Winter Palace.
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