hermitage

(noun)

A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.

Examples of hermitage in the following topics:

  • Sculpture in the Greek High Classical Period

    • An artist's conception of the colossal sculpture resides in the Hermitage Museum in St.

  • Museums and Private Collections

    • Many of the most significant private collections of art were opened to the public in the 18th century, such as the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy; The Louvre in Paris, France; and The Hermitage Museum, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great.

  • Primitivism and Cubism

    • Other works of Picasso's African Period include the Bust of a Woman (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); Mother and Child (Summer 1907, in the Musée Picasso, Paris); Nude with Raised Arms (1907, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and Three Women (Summer 1908, in the Hermitage Museum, St.

  • Turning Your Topic Into a Question

  • Chinese Literati Expressionism under the Ming Dynasty

    • Figures are often depicted carrying or playing guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) and residing in quite isolated mountain hermitages.

  • The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue

    • He also engaged in rounds of discussion with politicians who came to his home, the Hermitage, in Nashville.

  • The Shift East

    • The new city was protected by the relics of the True Cross, the Rod of Moses and other holy relics, though a cameo now at the Hermitage Museum also represented Constantine crowned by the tyche of the new city.

  • Chartreuse de Champmol

    • The cottage-like hermitages of the monks can be seen surrounding the main cloister, with the Well of Moses in the middle.

  • John Locke

    • Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller,1697, State Hermitage Museum, St.

  • Architecture and Art in the Unified Silla Period

    • The Seokguram Grotto is a hermitage and part of the Bulguksa temple complex.