The painter Rokotov became famous as a skilled portrait painter. In his preserved creative heritage there are wonderful pair portraits of the Surovtsev couple. A representative of a noble family married the […]
Landscapes of the artist convey a certain generality, breadth and spaciousness. A few blurry details form a thin muslin, through which one has to peer, gradually revealing all new facets of the […]
At the personal request of the Marquise de Pompadour herself, the famous sculptor creates a small sculpture of the god of love Amur. The marble figurine depicts a winged cute boy and […]
The picture is painted in oil on canvas in 1909. Cloth refers to the late work of Surikov. The artist wrote a lot on the topic of Siberia. Ladies in front of […]
Artist Kramskoy was an outstanding portrait painter. The secret of his success was that he sought to capture not only the resemblance, but also to reveal, guess and convey the hidden, deep […]
Jean-Honore Fragonard, a cheerful, witty and consistently affable, worked in the rococo style – a genre that does not pretend to be deep, and is designed to decorate interiors and to please […]
For the first time, the artist conceived to write this picture after he had to witness the massacre of “national criminals.” As you know, these people were not criminals at all, they […]
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born in 1878 in the family of the Astrakhan gymnasium teacher. At the age of fifteen, the artist began to actively master the mystery of drawing by the […]
The governess arrived to the rich house – eka nevidal! But in fact, although this situation was quite ordinary, it was still perceived unusually. The well-to-do people accepted into their homes a […]
Recent studies of the work of Jan van Eyck insist that his work in 1433 is a self-portrait. To make such a conclusion is not so difficult. It’s all about the existence […]