Ceiling relief in Heritage Museum St Petersburg in the Great Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting

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The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж, tr. Gosudárstvennyj Ermitáž; IPA: [ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪnɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ]) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1754 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounts for about one third of them)[4] including the largest collection of paintings in the world

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Size: 2513px × 3518px
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Photo credit: © mcnovies / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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