Albrecht Altdorfer’s painting “The Battle of Alexander the Great with Darius”

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1. Description of the painting by Alexander Benois “Summer Garden under Peter the Great”Tsar-father, reformer of Russia Peter Alekseevich Romanov invented fun for his subjects. Or rather, something like a punishment. Not accustomed to local nobles to the promenade. And as he did not at first drive them out of the house, at first it was impossible to inculcate this habit in the evening – to walk in […]...
2. Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “The Battle of Dobrynia Nikitich with the seven-headed Serpent Gorynych”The painting was written in 1918. Vasnetsov enters into the life of everyone from early childhood with his pictures-tales and accompanies us throughout his life. Bylina about the fight Dobrynya became the basis of the plot of the picture. It tells about how Dobrynya defeated the serpent and let him go, taking from him the […]...
3. Description of the painting by William Blake “Great Architect”This painting belongs to the genre of surrealism and was painted by the artist in 1794. The painting “The Great Architect” expresses the bright gamut of Blake’s religious feelings – this painter was one of the supporters of the theory of creationism. The mysterious picture belonging to the English mystic poet, like all his creations, […]...
4. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “The Adoration of the Holy Trinity” (1511g.)One of the most solemn works of Durer is “The Adoration of the Holy Trinity”. In 1511, the painting was ordered by the artist merchant and owner of the copper workshop Matthias Landauer. The artist’s work was intended for the altar of the chapel in the poorhouse for 12 lone artisans, which was built by […]...
5. Description of the painting by Ilya Glazunov “Great experiment”The very name is the reproach to the builders of the “new world” according to the theories of Marx and Engels, who created the very specter of communism, which had long wandered around Europe. This picture is a condemnation, a harsh and merciless sentence for all the bloody and cruel events that took place in […]...
6. Description of the painting by Mikhail Lomonosov “Poltava battle”Mikhail Lomonosov is an inquisitive naturalist, a gifted writer and the wisest philosopher did not bypass such an important area of ​​creative work as the visual arts. He studied the properties of glass and, struck by the extraordinary beauty of smalt – colored glass, became interested in making mosaic canvases. One of such a way […]...
7. Description of the painting by William Blake “The Great Red Dragon”The painting “Red Dragon” was written by English artist, engraver and poet William Blake in the period from 1803 to 1810. The canvas also has other names “Red dragon and a woman dressed in the sun” and “Great red dragon”. The work was done in watercolor, graphite and ink in the style of romanticism. The […]...
8. Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov “Great tonsure”Quite often, the painter Nesterov turned to religious topics. Here and there he did not change himself, but simply hid his feelings under this canvas. What kind of feelings are you asking? Everything is explicable: just once the artist fell in love, at first sight, like a lightning strike, like a hurricane of passions. And […]...
9. Description of the engraving of Albrecht Durer “Melancholy”The picture is a cutting engraving, the base of which is made of copper. Its author is the German artist Albrecht Dürer, who finished work on his creation in 1514. During the artist’s life, melancholic was decided to be divided into several types. Dürer himself referred to the first type. “Melancholy” art critics believe the […]...
10. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Father Albrecht Dürer (Portrait of Father)”German artist Albrecht Dürer is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the European Renaissance. His talent was very multifaceted – so, in addition to painting, Durer was fond of woodcuts, and became the first who elevated it to the rank of art. After the marriage, he opened his own workshop, at which the […]...
11. Description of the painting by Valentina Seroav “Peter the Great”At one time, the proposal to portray Peter I himself on the canvas did not just touch, but really brought and made Serov literally obsessed with this idea. Before that, he had already turned to a different historical storyline, but this particular case had become unique. On the image of Peter I on the canvas […]...
12. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Holiday Rosary”Here is the most recognizable work of Albrecht Dürer, on which the artist worked for several years in Italy. The Church of Santo Bartolome for German parishioners living in Italy ordered this pictorial work from the superpopular Dürer at that time. In private correspondence with his acquaintance, Dürer wrote about the trend towards the use […]...
13. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Mary with the Child”In a series of his extraordinary portraits made during the decade (from 1510 to 1520), Dürer managed to bring together all the best qualities of a person. For many years he painted and studied human personalities in order to learn how to convey them as accurately as possible in his works. After a long search […]...
14. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Monument to Peter the Great on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg”The first completed work of the artist Vasily Surikov was the winter landscape “View of the monument to Peter I on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg,” curious is the fact that the artist wrote two such paintings that mislead many viewers. There are several reasons for creating a second similar work: first, the artist […]...
15. Description of the painting by “The Adoration of the Magi” by Albrecht DurerIn the Uffizi Art Museum in Florence, Italy, Albrecht Dürer’s religious painting is exhibited – “Adoration of the Magi”. The German master wrote the work to order to the electoral prince of Saxony, Friedrich the Wise, for his Catholic church in Wittenberg. Today, the picture is recognized as one of the most valuable fruits of […]...
16. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Battle with the Amazons”The painting was painted by Rubens in 1618. Who are the Amazons? This is a tribe of women who are known to us from the mythology of antiquity. They constantly hunted and fought. Their main armament was a spear, an ax and a bow, as well as a shield. Most often, the Amazons were depicted […]...
17. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “After the battle”The painting “After the Battle” by Petrov-Vodkin, written in 1923, became an important milestone in the painting of the artist, marking a new stage in his creative quest. Up to this point, all the paintings of the artist did not have a specific time reference and were not specific. The characters of his paintings could […]...
18. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Battle of Tetuan”In 1860, the Spaniards conquered the city of Tetouan in North Africa from the Moroccans. City Council of Barcelona, proud of the victory, ordered canvases for military themes by Mariano Fortuny. The artist has not finished a huge canvas, 300×972 cm in size, and the Battle of Tetuan has been in storage at the Museum […]...
19. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Battle of Shrovetide and Lent”Peter Bruegel in his picture titled “The Battle of the Maslenitsa and the Fast” personifies a kind of theatrical genre, which is called farcical. The picture has the following preface and plot – we see in front of us the confrontation between Fast and Shrovetide, which personify good and evil and all the facets of […]...
20. Description of the painting by the bas-relief of Michelangelo Buanarrotti “Battle of the Centaurs”The sculptor made his bas-relief from a piece of Carrara marble. It was a donation for the school of San Marco Lorenzo the Magnificent. It depicts a battle scene. If you look closely, you can see quite a boy who holds a stone in his hands. He is trying to throw him. Behind the youngster […]...
21. Description of the painting by Michelangelo Buanarroti “Battle of Kashin”Michelangelo worked on a huge cardboard. For this, he was allocated the premises of the dyer hospital. He fills the canvas with naked soldiers who decide to swim in the heat in the Arno River. But at that time, anxiety was heard in the camp calling for a fight. Michelangelo depicted the soldiers who hastily […]...
22. Description of the painting by Jacopo Tintoretto “The Battle of Archangel Michael with Satan”“The Battle of the Archangel Michael with Satan” is a picture written by Jacopo Tintoretto on a biblical story. The New Testament of the Bible speaks of the great battle between good and evil. The devil in the guise of a dragon fights with the archangel. The artist here does not depict the usual dragon, […]...
23. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Hare”One of the most famous works of German artist Albrecht Dürer. Despite the fact that the master has many more remarkable works, such as a deer with prominent horns, or a dead bird with a rainbow plumage. The story of painting a picture has several versions. According to one of them, once strolling, Dürer stumbled […]...
24. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Heavenly Battle”Quite a few pictures of Roerich contain images of clouds. So in this picture they are assigned a large part of the canvas. Their image is transmitted by the artist in magnificent forms of patterns, aerial and voluminous, so dissimilar to each other. At the top of the sky, the clouds are white, they still […]...
25. Description of the medal by Fedor Tolstoy “Battle of Borodino”Fedor Tolstoy was one of the most talented and outstanding artists who lived in the XIX century. His work included paintings, sculptures and medals. He mastered in many areas of art and mastered a variety of techniques and performance techniques. Contemporaries of the author immensely admired his work. To have his work in his home […]...
26. Description of the painting by William Turner “Battle of Trafalgar”In the picture, the author tried to depict a great historical event – the Battle of Trafalgar. This bloody battle took place between Great Britain and the French-Spanish army. The naval battle entered history as one of the most significant battles of the Napoleonic war. It received its name from the Cape Trafalgar, located on […]...
27. Description of the painting by Yuri Neprintsev “Rest after the battleThe picture Neprintsev “Rest after the battle” was the result of the painstaking and long work of the author on the characters of the characters. The artist has a great sense of respect for his characters and seeks to bring it to the viewer. A simple pictorial solution does not obscure the main idea of […]...
28. Description of the painting by Paolo Uccello “The Battle of San Romano”Renaissance, as a direction of art, as a rule, glorified the past. With an eternal eye on the old masters, the new masters made the first uncertain tests of the brush, trying on the classicism and academism left by their predecessors. There was no talk of either Cubism or Modernism. Even impressionism was still far […]...
29. Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “The Battle of the Scythians with the Slavs”The artist Vasnetsov proved himself as a wonderful master in depicting everyday scenes. He was also interested in the religious theme, and with it the motifs of folk tales. But this does not stop the painter in the skillful mastery of different genres. The historical-historical direction occupies the period of Vasnetsov’s creative work from 1880 […]...
30. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Sinop battle”The famous Russian marine painter, IK Aivazovsky, wrote all the states of the sea: from serene calm to the ninth wave. Fighting excitement on the water also did not escape the attention of a great artist. He dedicated a number of canvases to the description of battles during the Crimean War. At the end of […]...
31. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Chesmensky battle”The Chesme battle is a heroic episode in the history of the war between the Turkish and Russian navies, which was throughout 1768-1774. From June 25 to June 26, 1770, at night, Russian ships managed to “lock up” the Turks and crush the enemy fleet. During the battle, 11 Russian sailors were heroically killed, and […]...
32. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Four Witches”About this picture it is possible to say with confidence that it is one of the most popular in the work of Dürer. The engraving is called “The Four Witches”, and now we will examine in detail why this is what the art historians call it. The engraving depicts a small and dark room that […]...
33. Description of the painting by Rembrandt “The Feast of Valtasar”The painting “The Feast of Belshazzar” was painted by Rembrandt between 1633 and 1634. At the moment, the canvas is stored in the National Gallery of London. The painting was written in the Baroque era and is one of the brightest works of Rembrandt, associated with the historical heritage of humanity. The plot of the […]...
34. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “St. Jerome in the cell”Albrecht Durer – the great German artist of the Renaissance. The orientation in which the painter worked was filled with expressiveness and a desire for realism. The moments of the artist’s activities included a collection of “three workshops engravings” on a religious theme. One of them was the painting “St. Jerome”, it was created in […]...
35. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Prodigal Son”The engraving is one of the variations of the parable about a man who has spent his father’s money and found himself in poverty. The history of this work goes back to the distant 1495, when Sebastian Brant published a poem on the subject of the Gospel parable. After that, the artist Albrecht Durer was […]...
36. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Adam and Eve”What do you know about medieval painting? Of course, many skilled craftsmen were addicted to it in these times. Here is one of the most interesting paintings by Durer “Adam and Eve” has a lot of fans from around the world. So, probably, it is worth getting acquainted with this work of art a little […]...
37. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Portrait of a young man”“Portrait of a Young Man,” written in 1521, refers to the late works of Albrecht Dürer. The author at that time already took place as a portrait painter, having written several dozen portraits of famous people of his time. Creating a portrait, Durer sought to convey precisely the spiritual essence of the person depicted in […]...
38. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “A piece of sod”Albrecht Dürer was considered a real researcher of flora and fauna, as well as a passionate admirer of the theory of Renaissance art. Paintings always enthusiastically described his life, all aspects of family life. All this was described in his diary, which was devoted to traveling to Holland. Dürer was born in Nuremberg, Germany. The […]...
39. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Self-portrait in 13 years”Albrecht Durer was one of the first artists of the West, who throughout his life created self-portraits. Thanks to a series of such paintings, one can trace changes in the artistic style of Dürer in a progression. The artist created the first engraving in 1484 – this is the painting “Self-portrait at the age of […]...
40. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Belisarius”Filled with tragedy, sadness and human injustice, the painting by famous French classical painter “Belisarius”, Jacques Louis David, was painted in oil in 1781. The plot of the picture is imbued with sadness, sentimentality and compassion. She tells of a Byzantine illustrious commander Belisarius, who was slandered and removed from service, condemning wanderings and poverty. […]...