As a rule all exhibits must be handled with great care that is why the visitors of museums very often have to scrutinize works of art through glass or from behind the barrier. You will have a unique opportunity to view masterpieces of the Hermitage using an innovative technology of IBM. Choosing the section Digital Library select the exhibit you are interested in. Using Enlarged image you can see the exhibits in the enlarged size and scrutinize their slightest details. The gallery of the enlarged images demonstrates new techologies of IBM on specially chosen examples.

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1)Silk with Vases of Flowers on a White Ground

1730s - 1740s
Italy

2)Egg-Shaped Necessaire

1757 - 1758
Paris

3)Earrings

330-300 BC
Ancient Greece

4)St Luke Drawing the Virgin

15th century
Netherlands

5)Caravella Pendant

1580 - 1590
Spain

6)Scarab-Shaped Hunter-Cased Pendant Watch

1890s
Switzerland

7) Cupid and Psyche

1808
Italy

8)Portrait of Elizabeth and Philadelphia Wharton

1640
Flanders

9) Horse Armour

Second half of
the 16th century
Germany

10)Model for an Equestrtan Statue of Louis XIV

Second half of the 17th century
France.

11)The Entry into Jerusalem

Second half of
the 15th century
France

12)Winter Landscape with Figures

Between 1612 and 1616
Flanders.