Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Hercules and Omphale”

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1. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Leda and the Swan”Francois Boucher was perhaps the most prominent representative of the painting of the French Rococo era. The artist won numerous awards during his lifetime and was “his man” at the court of Louis the Fifteenth, whose portraits of the favorite, the famous Marquise de Pompadour, painted many times. The artist’s talent is multifaceted; he painted […]...
2. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Bathing Diana”The creative biography of the great artist Francois Boucher is rich in a variety of paintings, but among them you can find the most popular, revered and adored works of the public. These include his work Bathing Diana. The Olympic goddess of unprecedented beauty appeared in the work of the artist as the most beautiful […]...
3. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “The Triumph of Venus”“The Triumph of Venus” – undoubtedly an ode to life. It is the pleasure of its fullness, exciting sensuality, versatility and supportive attitude. A true connoisseur of feminine beauty, Francois Boucher, like no one else, could capture the intoxicating scenes with beautiful Venus in the center. Born out of sea foam, she rests on the […]...
4. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Jupiter and Callisto”At the beginning of the eighteenth century in France, the most popular style in art was Rococo. For rococo is characterized by the image of luxury, satiety, the abundance of decorative elements, capricious forms. Pictures at that time served mainly as interior decoration. The characters were portrayed like porcelain figurines; at the same time, for […]...
5. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Toilet of Venus”The painting depicts Venus – the goddess of love. She is completely naked, covers only part of her body sheets. She looks like a doll made of porcelain – the same large and doll eyes, almost unnaturally white skin, a mischievous look in the direction of one of the Cupids playing with her beads next […]...
6. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour”The French painter Boucher was not very enthusiastically drawing portraits. However, he loved to write the image of his patroness, favorite of Louis XV – the Marquis de Pompadour. He began his work with her in 1748. From 1752, Bush began to live and work in the Louvre (the Marquise de Pompadour herself took care […]...
7. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Marquise de Pompadour”Francois Boucher was not considered a portrait painter. For all his creative life, he painted more than a thousand paintings, of which portraits are just a little more than a dozen. Most of these portraits are images of the Marquise de Pompadour. The name of the Marquise de Pompadour was known to many even during […]...
8. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Pastoral”Francois Boucher became famous not only as a talented artist, ideally corresponding to the spirit of his time, but also as a decorator and author of engravings. Illustrated many books. Most often he turned to mythological plots, but he painted them in a pastoral vein, partly decorative, showing rare ingenuity. In addition, he paid tribute […]...
9. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Breakfast”Francois Boucher was considered the court painter of the king during the reign of Louis XV. He became famous not only as a talented artist, but also as a decorator. Boucher painted landscapes, portraits, pastorals, depicting biblical and mythological scenes on canvas. The pearl of the collection of the famous painter is “Breakfast”. It is […]...
10. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Madame de Pompadour”Francois Boucher is a very versatile French artist. The basis of his work consists of paintings with mythical and biblical scenes; he also liked to depict the daily activities of the people of Paris and pastoral scenes, often taking portraits. The favorite of Louis the Fifteenth, the Marquis de Pompadour, was his devoted admirer and […]...
11. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Forest landscape with soldiers” &; nbspPainting by Francois Boucher “Forest Landscape with Soldiers” was written by him in 1740. It depicts two soldiers on the river bank in the middle of the forest. The picture is very realistic due to its clarity and detail. The trunks of the trees have a grooved bark structure. Foliage and needles on the branches […]...
12. Description of the sculpture by Francois Auguste Rodin “Eternal Spring”Imagery and symbolism, perhaps, this is the basis of the sculptural group “Eternal Spring” by Auguste Rene, a French sculptor, whose heyday came in the late 19th century. The rhythm of life, the foundations of society, changed, and the artist felt impending changes before others. His art is original and innovative. “Eternal Spring” – represents […]...
13. Description of the sculpture by Francois Auguste Rodin “Kiss”Kiss… alluring, intoxicating, gentle, long-awaited. There are plenty of epithets for him. Since the time of Plato, people have been puzzled by the question of why lovers like to kiss so much. There is something sacred in the action itself, it was precisely this mystery and unstoppable passion that Rene Francois Roden managed to convey […]...
14. Description of the sculpture by Francois Auguste Rodin “Citizens of Kale”From the middle of the nineteenth century, a conversation was held in Calais to keep the memory of great people for many years. For this it was necessary to create a monument in which you can see the feelings of the French: and discomfort due to surrender, and the worship of the heroic dedication of […]...
15. Description of the painting by Eugene Delacroix “Freedom leading people” (Freedom on the barricades)Later, the picture of Eugene Delacroix, written by him in 1830, began to be called “Freedom on the barricades”, but initially it was called “Freedom leading people”. Sometimes there was a mistaken view that the canvas was created under the influence of the French Revolution, however, in fact, Delacroix dedicated the plot to the events […]...
16. Description of the painting by Jean-Francois Millet “The Sower”The early works of the artist clearly show us the mood of the time. The famous canvas “The Sower” shows us a peasant who, with a simple movement, tries to throw seeds into the ground. This is a simple peasant, rather poor, exhausted by hard work. Striding wide, he tries to sow a new crop. […]...
17. Description of the painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir “Big Bathers”Auguste Renoir has always been a sincere connoisseur of the female body and tried to convey this beauty to the widest audience. The painting “Big Bathers” was perhaps the most vivid creative work of this painter. It was on this canvas that he worked for several years, making rough sketches, writing out separate sketches, developing […]...
18. Description of the painting by Jean-Francois Millet “Angelius”“Angelus Domini” is the name of the Catholic prayer, which is read three times a day – in the morning, at lunch and in the evening. The bells on Catholic churches in the old days called on believers to pray, and three times a day both cities and villages were filled with a festive bell […]...
19. Description of the sculpture by Francois Auguste Rodin “The Thinker”The “Thinker” is the pinnacle of the creative work of the French sculptor of the second half of the 19th century, Auguste Rodin. Initially, the author called the statue “The Poet”, implying the creator of the Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri. The work was made to order by the Museum of Decorative Arts for two years […]...
20. Description of the sculpture by Francois Rodin “Danaid”Artists are often not always accepted by ordinary people. After all, for the most part, everyone who is not related to creativity, does not have a certain mindset, can not understand very many paintings by artists, sculptures and other works. One of the famous cultural figures was Rodin. He was born in the middle of […]...
21. Description of the painting by Jean-Francois Millet “Collector ears”The painting “Collector of Ears” was painted in 1857 and is currently in the Paris museum of Orsay. Materials for the creation of the work served as oil and canvas. The dimensions of the canvas are 84 by 111 cm. In the picture we see a group of women working in the field. Warm, dull […]...
22. Description of the sculptural composition of Francois Auguste Rodin “Gates of Hell”Auguste Rene Rodin – an innovator, impressionist sculptor. For Rodin, it is important to reproduce feelings, impressions in sculpture, to reflect the real world, its variability and mobility. Received in 1885, an order from the government to manufacture the gates of the State Museum of France, Roden set to work three years later, but he […]...
23. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Girls”The picture of the famous Austrian artist of the beginning of the 20th century “Girls” is better known to a narrow circle of connoisseurs of extravagant art as “Three Ages of Woman.” even saturating the picture with phallic symbols. On the right side of the picture is a baby – a girl, hugging his mother […]...
24. Description of the painting by Lev Solovyov “The monks drove the wrong way”Voronezh Lev Solovyov is not particularly known to a wide audience, only great art lovers and artists know him, and even that is not all. However, this work is familiar to many. Only now its author Solovyov is undeservedly forgotten, and if it were not for Repin and not one curious error, no one would […]...
25. Description of the painting by William Bouguereau “Cupid and Psyche”The relationship between Cupid and Psyche is a favorite subject of Bouguereau paintings. The work is an excellent example of academic painting. The attention to detail, the idealization of the human body, the exquisite palette and eroticism make the canvas a delight to the eyes. In her there is no edification and morality, she only […]...
26. Description of the painting by Edward Manet “Breakfast on the grass”The painting was first exhibited in the famous “Salon of the Outcast”, which was opened on May 15, 1863 in Paris by Emperor Napoleon III, who wished to be known as a defender of freedom and creativity. Then the jury rejected many works by artists who were not allowed to participate in the exhibition. Edward […]...
27. Description of the painting by Paul Gauguin “Never AgainPaul Gauguin painted the painting “Never Again” in 1897 in Tahiti. He executed it on canvas with oil. She is now in London in Kurto. The composition represents a thematic variant “reclining naked”: a naked Tahitian young girl settled down on a rather rich bed and, as it may seem to an attentive viewer, listens […]...
28. Description of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh “Starry Night”In 1889, then a little-known artist named Vincent, and by the name of Van Gogh, once during his stay in the hospital of the town called Saint-Remy, taking a canvas measuring 73 by 92 centimeters, he painted one of his most amazing, amazing paintings called “Starry Night “. Written in the landscape genre in oils […]...
29. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Judgment of Paris”Rubens wrote on this popular subject of ancient times a number of magnificent paintings. Why was he attracted by this topic? The artist liked that it is possible to depict nude female bodies on the grand background of a magnificent landscape. We see Paris. He wears a traditional shepherd outfit. He very carefully considers the […]...
30. Description of the painting by Michelangelo Buanarroti “Holy Family”Michelangelo is one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance. First of all, the sculptor, he also painted, wrote poems, was a famous thinker of his time. Speaking of his ancestors, they mention Mesira Simone, Count di Canossa, but there is no documentary evidence of such an origin, and now it seems doubtful. At the […]...
31. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Nude Truth”“Naked Truth” – a picture that shocked Klimt’s contemporaries. It was a daring challenge to inert views and to all who believe that they can dictate to art workers how to create. If you can put it that way, with the help of this work the artist “showed the language” to his spiteful critics. The […]...
32. Description of the painting by Raphael Santi “Three Graces”“Three Graces” – a painting by Raphael, which depicts Innocence, Beauty and Love, as they were presented to the artist. All the girls are very young, all have similar hair color, cleaned so as not to look neat. Holding each other – because ideal love is always beautiful and innocent, ideal beauty is always innocent […]...
33. Description of the painting by Anthony Van Dyck “St. Jerome”Van Dyke wrote a huge number of portraits. Plots mythological and religious become the main themes of his paintings. For two years he helped Rubens, which was the reason for such a strong influence on his painting of such a lush manner inherent in the painter. Van Dyke constantly varied the images that were characteristic […]...
34. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Anthropomorphic bread”Salvador Dali surrealist, who once stirred the minds of the people of his time. But even today, contemporaries argue about the meaning of his paintings and try to unravel the insane personality of the artist. Many among his works are those who terrify and amaze every imagination. Such a picture is “Anthropomorphic bread”, written in […]...
35. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Adam and Eve”A painting by Peter Paul Rubens “Adam and Eve” is written in a biblical story. This work is almost a complete copy of the work of Titian. Artists of those times, as well as modern ones, had many reasons for copying paintings. But Peter Paul Rubens certainly did not do it for the money. He […]...
36. Description of the painting by Michelangelo “Noah’s Drunkenness”The first from the entrance to the chapel we will see the composition “Noah’s intoxication”. When Michelangelo worked on the Sistine Chapel, he neglected the sequence. This composition was to go immediately after the “Flood”. However, the author decided to act in his own way, and the visitor to the chapel first sees “Noah’s Drunkenness.” […]...
37. Description of the painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder “Adam and Eve”This picture of the master of the Northern Renaissance, written around 1526, is sometimes called Russian Cranach due to the fact that it was discovered in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, but then sold to the West. In the work of Lucas Cranach the Elder, a German painter of the Renaissance, the […]...
38. Description of the painting by Diego Velázquez “Venus with a mirror”During the life of the artist Diego Velázquez, the Spanish Inquisition had a great influence not only on the lives and customs of people, but also on their work. In those days, images of naked bodies were strictly forbidden. The artist who painted the portrait of a naked man could be sent into exile, deprived […]...
39. Description of the painting by Konstantin Somov “Summer”The painting was painted at the beginning of the 20th century, after the October Revolution. In the foreground, two young girls are sitting on a lawn on the bank of a forest stream. The young ladies depicted in the picture are dressed in dresses of the pre-revolutionary era. On their faces, peace, tranquility, light sadness. […]...
40. Description of the painting by Michelangelo Buanarroti “Madonna Doni”The easel canvas by Michelangelo, which is the only one preserved in fully finished form until today. This is a tdo, in which the artist depicted Mary, Joseph, Christ, and John. The painter creates the creation at a still young age. The picture vividly illustrates the master’s statement that complete painting can only be complete, […]...