Description of the sculpture Donatello “St. George”
Sculpture “St. George” was created by the great Italian sculptor Donatello between 1415 and 1416. According to the custom of the time, the sculpture was ordered and paid for by the gunsmiths workshop, who
Description of the painting by Giuseppe Archimboldo “Summer”
Created in 1573 Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 76 by 63.5 cm. Exhibited in the Louvre, Paris, France. Another similar, but written ten years earlier, the canvas is in the Vienna Museum of Art
Description of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh “Portrait of Papa Tanga”
Van Gogh Portrait of Papa Tangi Van Gogh painted this canvas in 1887-1888. Julien Francois Tanguy owned a shop selling items for painters. His clients were not only famous impressionists, but also post-impressionists. Tanguy
Description of the painting by Ivan Goryushkin-Sorokopudov “Kiss”
At the end of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, in a period of significant changes in Russian cultural life, many artists sought inspiration for their work in the origins of
Description of the painting by Isaac Brodsky “Winter”
Isaac Vasilyevich Brodsky was born and lived at the junction of two centuries, because he belonged to that generation, which found more times of royal power. But unlike many of his comrades in skill,
Description of the painting by Hieronymus Bosch “Removing the stone of stupidity”
“Removing the stone of stupidity” is one of the earliest works of Bosch, which has reached our days. At first glance, according to the overall composition and name of the picture, the main purpose
Description of the painting by Vincent Willem van Gogh “Harvest”
The “Harvest” landscape was painted by Vincent van Gogh in June 1888 on a hill overlooking fields in the vicinity of the Abbey of Montmajour. In the open air that summer in the south
Description of the painting by Efim Volkov “Twilight”
Efim Volkov was born in Petersburg at the end of the nineteenth century. In his youth, he practiced a lot, drawing sketches from life, honing his technique. In his landscapes he depicted mainly his
Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Sleep caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate”
The famous masterpiece of the outrageous surrealist Dali, created in 1944 and inspired by Freudian psychoanalysis can be briefly called “Dream.” Thus, Freud’s large-scale work on the theory of dreams turned out to be
Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Chaos. World creation”
Unlike other paintings, “Chaos. Creation of the World “- not such a famous painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. But without exaggeration, we can say that it is one of the most impressive works of