Description of the painting by Fedor Rokotov “Portrait of Surovtseva”
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 born Pashkov.
Description of the painting by George Nissky “Above the snow”
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 image. Some
Description of the sculpture by Etienne Maurice Falcone “Dangerous Cupid”
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 received the
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Sibiryachka”
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 a mirror
Description of the painting by Ivan Kramsky “Portrait of I. E. Repin”
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 features of
Description of the painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard “Swing”
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 the eye.
Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “The arrest of the propagandist”
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 just did
Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “The Model”
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 Russian painter
Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Arrival of a governess in a merchant’s house”
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 woman who
Description of the painting by Jan van Eyck “Self-portrait”
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 of distinctive