During the 2006-2007 academic year, the Lecture Hall of the State Hermitage offers visitors the following program:

University of the history of foreign fine art in the State Hermitage

The topics of these lectures will acquaint visitors with the development of foreign fine art from ancient times to our own day. The courses are organized over three academic years and comprise 90 lectures.

Course 1
The culture and art of the Ancient World. Art of the medieval Orient

Course 2
The art of Byzantium. Western European art from the 11th - 17th centuries.

Course 3
Foreign art of the 17th - 20th centuries.

Lecture series of one's choosing:

For those wishing to study in-depth the careers of the world's outstanding artists we can recommend lectures which continue topics from last year's series:
Western Europe. Masters of the 18th-19th centuries
16 lectures
Classics of the 20th century. Masters
14 lectures

The following series of lectures deal with separate ages in the history of Western European art, as well as with various forms of fine art:
English art of the 17th century.
3 lectures
The image of the world in Dutch painting of the 15th-17th centuries.
8 lectures
"Under the royal Fleur de Lys"
The art of two centuries of the French monarchy
10 lectures
English artists of the Age of Romanticism and Neo-Romantics of the second half of the 19th century.
7 lectures
"Art of fire"
5 lectures

Lectures which acquaint you with the art of countries of the Orient:
How an Egyptologist works
Egyptian monuments of the Old Kingdom
3 lectures
The mythology of Ancient Egypt
3 lectures
The culture of Ancient Iran
4 lectures
The art of Islam
3 lectures
Chinese applied art
6 lectures
Old cities of China
2 lectures
Around the cities of Japan: capitals, headquarters, ports
6 lectures
You can get to know the culture of Christianity in the following lecture series:
Medieval Christian cathedrals
4 lectures
Famous monasteries of the Orthodox East
10 lectures

The following lecture series tell about the worldview and culture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as about the nomadic tribes of Scythians and the indigenous peoples of America:
Gods and heroes of the Ancient World
6 lectures
Enigmas of the Scythians
4 lectures
"Their history was burned"
4 lectures
The series entitled "Works and Days of Alexei Nikolaevich Olenina" is dedicated to the life of a Russian scholar
3 lectures

These lectures will acquaint you with monuments of architecture, art collections and the largest cultural centers of Europe:
Cities of Central Europe
6 lectures
Austria. Cities, architectural ensembles, museums.
6 lectures
Ancient and Modern England
9 lectures

Subscriptions on sale
in the Lecture Hall beginning 1 September
in the box office of the General Staff building
Tel. of the Lecture Hall: (812)710-97-31