Description of the painting by Alexei Denisov-Uralsky “Forest Fire”
Connoisseur of the beauties of the native Ural, Denisov has always been distinguished by the realism of the image on the canvas. He was aware that beside the beautiful lies the wild nature that
Description of the painting by Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov “Monastery”
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov’s painting “The Monastery” was painted in oil on canvas in the 1860s. Genre – landscape, direction – realism. Quiet autumn day. Trees gilded by leaves give the last beauty before leaving
Description of the painting by Titian Vecellio “Beauty”
Among the master’s works, portraits occupy a special place. In the early period, when the artist only observed the beauty of the earth and people, learned to see the beauty of the external and
Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Moonlit Night in the Crimea”
Many artists prefer to work in kind, without sketching in advance. Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was different from everyone – he preferred to write from memory. The basis of it served as his own fluent
Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Three Ages”
The famous painting by Salvador Dali is, in essence, a symbolic depiction of the three age lines of a person, in this case a child, a middle-aged man and a very old one. The
Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “Baptism of Prince Vladimir”
Vasnetsov, Victor Mikhailovich, was born in the family of an ordinary priest, in 1848. He studied at the local theological seminary, then at the famous Petersburg Academy of Arts. After graduating from it, he
Description of the painting by Igor Grabar “Untidy table”
I. Grabar was an outstanding personality even among his famous contemporaries. He drew and wrote, taught and studied himself. After the European trip, under the impression of the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Grabar created
Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Don Quixote”
The famous French engraver and illustrator Gustave Dore wrote a lot of illustrations to the famous literary work of Cervantes Don Quixote. But this work is best known. In the illustrations of Dore, an
Description of the painting by Diego Velázquez “Self-portrait”
The artist King Philip IV created a whole gallery of persons of the 17th century: kings, princesses and priests. Diego Velázquez was called the mirror of life. The right to depict the king and
Description of the painting by Stanislav Zhukovsky “The interior of the library of a manor house”
The artist Stanislav Zhukovsky is a famous landscape painter of the late XIX century, working in the style of impressionism and realism. The rigorous principle of writing “from life” reflects the interior painting of