World Chocolate Day is celebrated on this day (on 11 July). Louis-Francois Lecot | Chocolate-Pot | Hard-paste porcelain | Sevres | 1781 - bit.ly/2N5xlGF11

World Whale and Dolphin Day is celebrated on this day. Red-figured Amphora: Marine Fauna (Dolphins, Hippocampi and Sea Dragons) | Etruria. Vulci | Clay | 325-300s BC

Exhibition Celebrating The Day of Oman at the Hermitage bit.ly/2JP9jO1

Born #OTD in 1872 was English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley. Come to the exhibition entitled 'Art Deco. Books from the Collection of Mark Bashmakov' to see his illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s play 'Salomé'! bit.ly/2sXHYUp

The exhibition “The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces of The Leiden Collection” in The Nicholas Hall of the Winter Palace - bit.ly/2zLSTEm Jan Lievens | Boy in a Cape and Turban | Ca. 1631 All images are courtesy of The Leiden Collection

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

25 March 421 is considered the day when Venice was found. Michele Marieschi | Rialto Bridge in Venice | 1740s

19 April 2019 - 23 June 2019 Gods, Men, Heroes From the Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples and the Parco Archeologico di Pompei the Manege of the Small Hermitage

The General Staff Building is closed on May 15, 16, 17.

We have an interesting question for all art lovers! This dog is depicted on one of the Hermitage paintings. Have you ever seen it?

You can see this shy dog on the exhibition entitled "Pieter Brueghel the Younger. ‘The Sermon of John the Baptist.’ Conservation Completed" in the Menshikov Palace. bit.ly/2Y5uxPk

Dear art experts, can you quess what picture it is?

The answer is Uccello! Come to the temporary exhibition “Paolo Uccello. St George and the Dragon. From the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris”!

Today in the column entitled "Hermitage through the Photographers` Eyes" we want to show you the photos by Irina Murinskaya.

#MuseumWeek2019 #WomenInCulture Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun was the court portraitist of Marie-Antoinette and one of the most celebrated women artists in history. She lived in Russia for several years. Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun | Self-Portrait | Oil on canvas | 1800

Saint Joan of Arc, national heroine of France, was burned to death #OTD in 1431 in Rouen. After the victory at Orléans she was nicknamed 'The Maid of Orléans.' Hermann Stilke | Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake (Right-Hand Part of 'The Life of Joan of Arc' Triptych) | 1843

World No Tobacco Day is celebrated on the 31st of May. This is why we decided to take pipes and smoking accessories away from the Hermitage pictures. Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Soler. 1903 - bit.ly/2JNGq9B

World No Tobacco Day is celebrated on the 31st of May. This is why we decided to take pipes and smoking accessories away from the Hermitage pictures. Horace Vernet. Self-Portrait. 1835 - bit.ly/2JO1dtB

World No Tobacco Day is celebrated on the 31st of May. This is why we decided to take pipes and smoking accessories away from the Hermitage pictures. Jean-Léon Gérôme. Pool in a Harem. Circa 1876 - bit.ly/2QAdOBa

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