Books published by Arca

Jeanne Samary was an actress at the Comédie-Française. This portrait of her is perhaps one of the most famous of Renoir's many renowned canvases following the Impressionist principle of painting life as it truly is, the artist showed the actress in her usual setting. In the soft, fluid contours, vibrant texture and the finest of colour reflections, we see the stroke of this mature master of Impressionism.

This book includes 366 works of art from the State Hermitage Museum Collection, St Petersburg, Russia. It serves as an album and as a perpetual calendar with plenty of space to record birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates as well as personal notes. This lovely book could be a gift for art lovers and will offer inspiration day by day.

A delightful way to encourage children to learn and memorize using masterpieces of the Hermitage Museum collection! This book is a part of a series developed to introduce young readers to the world of art.

Birds of a feather...

This elegant gift edition pays tribute to the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers by placing "flower portraits", manuscripts and botanical atlases alongside myths, legends and poetry from around the world.

Every letter in this unusual ABC book opens a door into the treasure-stores of one of the world's great museums. the book is aimed not only at children who start learning their letters, but also at a slightly older age group and at parents who want their children to understand art and beauty. At the end of the book there are detailded commentaries on all the works featured.

The book presents the collection of the State Hermitage, one of the greatest museums in the world. The aim is to give an all-embracing picture of the museum's stocks, to show not only the world-famous gems of fthe collection, but also works that are rarely included in publications.

This book presents historical costumes of the Romanov dynasty from its 17th-century founder, Mikhail Fiodorovich, to Nicholas II and Tsarevich Alexei. Each picture is accompanied by a brief informative commentary. Full-colour images of the costumes -- details of paintings from the Hermitage collection -- are placed on all four pages of the cover as guides for colouring. The book is printed on Finnish paper that allows the use of coloured pencils, watercolour, gouache or gel pens to complete the drawings.

Malevich's Black Square heralded the triumph of non-objectivity, when there was nothing left to destroy in the figurative form and the object lost its materiality. This canvas, shown at the "Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10" in Petrograd in December 1915, embodied its creator's conception of "the zero of form", the beginning and the end of everything. The artist repeated the famous composition, which undoubtedly became an icon of 20th century painting. The Hermitage has a version dated ca. 1930, it was formerly kept in the collection of the Malevich family.

This whole work is dominated by the idea of the victory of love, goodness and charity. The event is treated as the highest act of human wisdom and spiritual nobility, and it takes place in absolute silence and stillness. The drama and depth of feeling are expressed in the figures of both father and son, with all the emotional precision with which Rembrandt was endowed. This parable in Rembrandt's treatment is addressed to the heart of everyone.

Contains the most important highlights of European painting dating from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries and the splendid state rooms of the Imperial Palace.

This colouring book contains information about the chain mail and plate armour that protected Western European knights and Russian warriors in the 12th to 17th centuries.

The third colouring book in the series presents descriptions of the clothing traditionally worn by the inhabitants of Russia's northern, central and southern provinces and the wonderfully beautiful articles that were made in peasant homes without electricity or any other modern technology in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A beautiful series of small-format books that make great gifts and stocking stuffer Fascinating fragments and details that quite often escape the eye provide fresh insights into familiar paintings and drawings, sculptures, works of jewellery and archaeological finds.In the Christian world the images of the Virgin and Saints as well as the scenes of the Annunciation and the Adoration have been the source of artists'inspiration throughout many centuries. Evangelic themes are represented in the Hermitage collection by the canvases of such men of genius as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Brueghel, Rubens, Van Dyke, Rembrandt and many others. A wide variety of masterpieces allows us to illustrate the scene of Nativity not only with magnificent paintings but also with drawings, engravings, reliefs and elegant objects of applied arts.

ARCA publishers present a series of small-format books that acquaint readers anew with gems of the Hermitage collection. Fascinating fragments and details that quite often escape the eye provide fresh insights into familiar paintings and drawings, sculptures, works of jewellery and archaeological finds.

A delightful way to encourage children to learn using masterpieces of the HERMITAGE Museum!

A delightful way to encourage children to learn using masterpieces of the HERMITAGE Museum!