1864; canvas, oil; 40.5 x32.2; Tretyakov Gallery. The picture was painted during a trip to Europe by Vasily Grigorievich. For a long time the artist could not find inspiration, choose a suitable […]
The mountain sacred to the Indians was depicted by the artist many times. While on an expedition to Tibet, he could not resist her charm, each time opening a new viewing angle […]
Rubens – singer in the age-old love of life, the depth of its manifestation that does not recognize a framework convention and stupid rules imposed by individual company. He, paradoxically, also views […]
Seven years later, after the picture “The Girl Illuminated by the Sun” was published, Valentin Serov wrote another impressionistic painting “In the Summer”, in which he depicts his beloved wife Olga. Here […]
The canvas, which at first glance is slightly surprising and takes a bewilderment from the fact that you do not know what exactly you can or should talk about here. The strange […]
Rembrandt – the greatest master of the golden age of Dutch painting, which above all put a person and his experiences. Even in portraits, he paid a lot of attention to the […]
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky worked for the glory of his country. At international art exhibitions abroad, the artist positioned himself as an ambassador of Russian art. Master of portrait painting. He painted many […]
1870 This picturesque painting, like most of Shishkin’s landscapes, bears the beauty of Russian nature as the main idea. For the author is characterized by a very strong emphasis in the works […]
This still-life Fruit Shop by the Flemish painter Frans Snyders’s Fruit Shop is one of the most valuable reproductions of the State Hermitage Museum of Russia. This picture is one of 4 […]
Probably, there is no one among us who, at least once in his life, has not watched the famous film, which has already become a classic of the genre – “12 chairs”. […]