- The thirty postcards in Italian Renaissance Paintings were selected from the heralded collections of The State Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg, which are housed in lavish quarters in the historic heart of the city. These classic paintings from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries portray both religious and secular subject matter - family portraits and lounging lovers side by side with saints and winged angels - depicted by masterful Italian painters in famous artworks that are known and loved around the globe.