Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “Crucifixion. Calvary”

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1. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “Crucifixion”The picture is not large in its size. Only 24.8X22.2 cm. She entered the Hermitage Museum of Decorative, Applied and Fine Art as early as 1772. Until the end it was thought that this canvas, which is glued to the tree. On the cross, which was raised above the ground, they crucified Jesus Christ. One […]...
2. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “The Last Supper”This is a huge canvas size 5.5×12.8 meters. Which carries in itself another name – “Feast in the house of Levi”. The artist gave the second name to his picture in connection with the request of the investigator. Painting Paolo Veronese reached our days in its original appearance. On it we can observe the figure […]...
3. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “Adoration of the Magi”Among the outstanding Venetian artists with interest you have to watch the works of Paolo Veronese. Like other famous masters of the 16th century, he was interested in religious painting. On this extensive and deep topic created the painting “The Adoration of the Magi.” A large canvas with oil paints with a popular biblical storyline […]...
4. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “Lamentation of Christ”The visual art of the time of the Renaissance speaks of a complete spiritual change in popular traditions. Another time comes when some things cease to be relevant, and some gain public recognition. Thus, artists are looking for new ideas according to popular moods. Paolo Veronese, being one of the most prominent representatives of the […]...
5. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “Marriage in Cana of Galilee”In the Louvre, exhibited a giant in its scale and striking in magnitude the gift of the creator of the picture – “Marriage in Cana of Galilee.” Painted canvas famous Venetian painter Paolo Veronese throughout the year. In 1563, he completed a grandiose work that was placed in the refectory of a Catholic monastery by […]...
6. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “The Conversion of Saul”In the visual art of the XVI century – the time of the decline of the Renaissance – the topic of complete spiritual change was very popular. After the hymn of the Renaissance hymn of sensuality and materiality, other times come when it all starts to lose its relevance. And artists find new ideas for […]...
7. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “The Triumph of Venice”The oval-shaped canvas adorns the ceiling of the Great Council Hall in the Dodge Palace in Venice. On the creation of the picture took about 5 years. The exact date of writing is unknown, it is believed that the “Triumph of Venice” was created somewhere between 1580 and 1585. The composition shown to the viewer […]...
8. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “Mars and Venus”Paolo Veronese – a bright representative of the Venetian school of painting. There were many famous artists. Paolo Veronese clearly stood out among them. He created many paintings on mythological themes. The bright, expressive, extraordinarily beautiful canvas “Mars and Venus” is a masterpiece recognized throughout the world. The picture is also different in that it […]...
9. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “The triumph of Mordecai”Paolo Veronese worked on the masterpiece for five years. A canvas with rounded edges adorns the Doge’s Palace in Italy. Historians did not manage to establish the exact date of the writing of the “Triumph of Mordecai”; presumably, the picture was completed in the mid 80s of the XVI century. The composition is pompous and […]...
10. Description of the painting by Paolo Veronese “The abduction of Europe”Looking at the painting by Paolo Veronese. Which has a rather well-known and symbolic name “The Abduction of Europe”, immediately evokes the memories of the myths of ancient Greece, the unsurpassed beauty of young Europe and the perseverance of the loving Zeus. The canvas itself is quite large-scale: it reaches a width of 3 meters […]...
11. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Crucifixion of Christ from St. John”Dali in his picture wrote the image of the Spanish poet-mystic Juan de la Cruz, who presented in the guise of St. John. This hero of the story was a champion of human freedom. The church should not play the role of God and its mediator, it should only help to fulfill the pressing problems […]...
12. Description of the painting by Michelangelo Buanarroti “Crucifixion of Christ”Many of the works of genius have been lost. This applies to his paintings, which did not survive in battle with time. Many can only guess from the written information of authoritative contemporaries of Michelangelo. Among such lost masterpieces are paintings of Lamentation, Resurrection, and the Crucifixion of Christ. All of them were carried out […]...
13. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Crucifixion”Salvador Dali embodied the embodiment of the Spanish temperament, extraordinary thinking and a peculiar vision of the world in many of his canvases. The great surrealist of the 20th century, Salvador Dali, in his Crucifixion canvas depicted one of the most famous religious scenes – the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. His images, embodied in the […]...
14. Description of the painting by Nicholas Ge “Calvary”The painting “Golgotha” became one of the last works of Nikolay Ge and, according to critics, remained unfinished. The author tried to invest in his work a deep moral meaning. In the center of the picture is Christ and the two thieves. Each character in the picture has its own character traits. So, the author […]...
15. Description of the painting by Nicholas Ge “Crucifixion”In fact, there are as many as two versions of the Crucifixion. The first version of the canvas was written in 1892, and the second two years later. Anyway, the first and second versions of the picture produced the same impressions on the viewer. Canvases induce oppressive and hopeless emotions. Probably it is difficult to […]...
16. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Crucifixion”The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ is one of the most popular and beloved scenes of Renaissance and Baroque artists. Peter Paul Rubens resorts to this story in 1606. Most at work attracts the attention of the body image of Jesus Christ. He was crucified on a high wooden cross. The man’s body is completely limp […]...
17. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Path to Calvary”“The Road to Calvary” is one of the most famous paintings of the founder of the dynasty of Dutch painters Peter Bruegel the Elder. It belongs to the Brussels period of the artist. The composition of the canvas is quite traditional and was used, including by Bruegel’s contemporaries – for example, Peter Artsen. The painting […]...
18. Description of the Icon of Dionysius “Crucifixion”“Crucifixion” is a classic icon written according to all canons. It does not have the liveliness inherent in the images of saints from the Renaissance masters, there is no grotesque image of hellish creatures inherent in Borges. It is simple and beautiful in this simplicity. The cross depicts the body of Jesus. It is curved […]...
19. Description of the painting by Giotto di Bondone “Crucifixion of Christ”1330; board, tempera; Municipal Museum of Strasbourg. The role of Giotto di Bondone in the development of Italian pictorial art is difficult to overestimate. It was thanks to him that a completely new approach to the image of the spatial dimension in the pictures appeared; they got depth and volume. Mostly the artist worked on […]...
20. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Carrying the Cross (Procession on Calvary)”The picture was painted on a blackboard in 1564. One of the sixteen paintings by Bruegel, which in 1566 was included in the inventory list of the collector from Antwerp Niklas Jonhelink. The picture was dedicated to the chapters from the Holy Scripture, events when Christ goes to Calvary, carrying on himself a heavy cross […]...
21. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Calvary”Throughout his life Repin repeatedly turned to religious topics. “Golgotha” is a picture, literally suffered by the artist, whose design he had been bearing for many years. Reading the book of Repin’s memoirs, one can understand how much the author was experiencing this plot, letting it through his heart. He felt, heard the weeping and […]...
22. Description of the painting by Jacopo Tintoretto “Crucifixion”Jacopo Tintoretto wrote the picture “The Crucifixion” in the classic biblical story. The style of writing is characteristic of the mature period of the artist’s creative journey. The work displays a variety of images on which the painter worked for several years. In the center of the composition is the scene of the crucifix with […]...
23. Description of the painting by Karl Bryullov “Crucifixion”The artist worked on the canvas from 1836 to 1838. The painting was created for the Lutheran cathedral named after Saints Peter and Paul, the creator of which was the brother of the famous author – A. P. Bryullov. In religious painting, the artist sought to bring the features of real experiences. He wrote plot, […]...
24. Description of the painting by Victor Vasnetsov “Crucifixion of Christ”Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov – a famous Russian artist, widely known in Russia and abroad as the creator of masterpieces on the themes of epics about heroes and Russian folk tales. But few people now know what contribution Vasnetsov’s religious painting made to the development of Russian Orthodox culture. Vasnetsov’s father was a priest, and Victor […]...
25. Description of the painting by Ilya Glazunov “Calvary”Russian artist, who declared his work to the whole world, Ilya Glazunov is a mysterious and contradictory figure. His works are about Russia and for Russia, they are concocted from collages, they tell about the past, speak about the present and look to the future prophetically. Glazunov noticed the beauty of the surrounding world in […]...
26. Description of the painting by Caravaggio “The Crucifixion of St. Peter”Caravaggio is considered to be not only the best master in the entire history of the development of artistic art, but also one of the brightest and most talented representatives of such a style of drawing and displaying paintings as baroque. A little later, it was this style, with the help of Caravaggio, that supplanted […]...
27. Description of the painting by Mathias Grünewald “Crucifixion”In the picture we see a traditional religious plot – the crucified Jesus and those close to him gathered around him. If you try to characterize the impression that this creation leaves in one word, it will be despair. We see a mutilated, painfully thin, male figure with a truly martyred face on a black […]...
28. Description of the painting by Paulo Veronese “Feast in the house of Levi”Paolo Veronese presented his work “Feast in the House of Levi” to the monastery, and a few months after that, he appeared before the court for distorting the biblical plot. An analysis of the work revealed many unacceptable inconsistencies that the Inquisition did not just criticize, but signed the death sentence to the creator. The […]...
29. Description of the painting by Raphael Santi “Carrying the Cross”“Carrying the Cross” is one of the most tragic works of Raphael. It conveys not only the moment of their life of Christ, described in religious sources, but also the human emotions that the author so diligently conveyed. The feeling of grief, helplessness, anxiety and compassion is read in the eyes of the Dev in […]...
30. 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 […]...
31. Description of the painting by Marc Chagall “White crucifix”This is one of the best creations of Chagall. Here the artist’s constant thoughts about what is happening in his contemporary world are fully embodied. Thoughts are incredibly tragic. The tones of the Apocalypse have become major in the works of the painter, written before the war. Crucifixion takes first place among them. The viewer […]...
32. Description of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh “Pieta”Vincent Willem van Gogh painted the Pieta in 1889. It was made on canvas with oil. The picture was painted by the artist at the end of his life, during endless depressions and creative searches. However, despite the tragedy of the events in the life of Van Gogh, this period is the heyday of his […]...
33. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane”The Garden of Gethsemane is the retreat of Jesus Christ, where he prayed for the abomination of the cup of sins, the night before he was taken into custody. Very rare in visual terms, almost the only work on which there is no image of the very face of Christ. Perov did not accidentally take […]...
34. Description of the painting by Titian Vecellio “Carrying the Cross”His painting “Carrying the Cross” the great artist Vecellio Titian, who lived in the Renaissance Era, created around 1565. He was a supporter of the theme of martyrdom and the new aesthetic direction of Baroque, which is clearly visible in this picture. Since 1850, his work, brought from the collection of Barbarigo, is protected by […]...
35. Description of the painting by Paul Gauguin “Yellow Christ”It is easy to guess that the painting “Yellow Christ” keeps a religious overtones. However, both society and critics disagree – whether it was a challenge to the clergy and the whole Christian world or a desperate call to cast off a veil of indifference. The central place of the composition is the traditional plot […]...
36. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn “Adoration of the Magi”The plot of the picture depicts the scene of the Birth of Jesus Christ. Many Renaissance artists loved this theme very much. She gave the opportunity to show imagination, to interpret the event in the light of her vision. The gospel of Matthew says that on the day when baby Jesus was born, the magi […]...
37. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Prometheus Bound”Everyone knows the story of the Greek myth of Prometheus. He was severely punished by Zeus. Him chained to a rock and doomed to eternal suffering. Every day the eagle flew and pecked at his liver, but the next day it grows again. Why did Prometheus deserve such anger? He, in secret from Zeus, gave […]...
38. Description of the painting by Nikolai Koshelev “Head of Christ”Koshelev Nikolai Andreevich in the 19-20 centuries at one time a famous person, an artist of religious painting. A member of the Academy of Painting (St. Petersburg), for many years was forgotten among believers and specialists. Nikolai was born into a family of serfs in a small village in the Penza region. All his childhood […]...
39. Description of the painting by Diego Velázquez “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary”Diego Velázquez was a big fan of biblical subjects, but he depicted them, like his other paintings in his own way, in his own manner of writing. The painting “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary” was created after long months of painstaking work in 1618 and was Vellazquez’s own interpretation of one of […]...
40. Description of the painting by Anthony Van Dyck “The Crowning with a Thorns”Van Dyke is a talented student of Rubens, who wrote his famous painting “The Coronation with a Crown of Thorns” at the very tender age of eighteen. As a child of wealthy parents who supported his talent, he had the opportunity at the age of 16 to open his art workshop. In it he creates […]...