1858 Landscape, depicting the park, written in pencil. Different shades of gray make each piece play. All trees are clearly drawn, almost every leaf is shown. Despite the gray colors, the picture […]
At the moment, one of the sketches of the painting is in the St. Petersburg Hermitage. The history of its creation is somewhat different from the usual works of Pierre Auguste Renoir. […]
The artwork “Death of the Commissioner” took the first place in the Russian painting process of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. This creature contributed to an important picture with the plot “After the battle.” One […]
Caravaggio’s painting “Lute” or “A Young Man with a Lute” is a vivid exhibit of the Hermitage. But the picture is also presented in several museums of the world, for example, in […]
Surikov – Russian painter, originating from a Cossack poor family. About his great-grandfather they say that, being a man of unmeasured power, one day, in a thunderstorm, he pulled a heavy raft […]
Visitors to the exhibitions of Soviet and modern artist Natalia Nesterova see her paintings as meaningful, filled with symbolism. Natalia herself responds to this, that she does not try to invest anything […]
The painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” by A. K. Savrasov wrote in 1871. Almost immediately, the simplicity and artlessness of this canvas attracted the attention of contemporaries. The famous patron of arts […]
Lucas Cranach the Younger – German painter, who became the successor to the artist Lucas Cranach, part-time his father. The author of famous works of the Renaissance on a religious theme, the […]
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is a great Russian artist, who gained fame for himself with paintings depicting his native nature. Especially inspired Shishkin forest. In the artist’s paintings, he is different – coniferous […]
In the last week of February, Maslenitsa is traditionally celebrated in Russia. In Shrovetide festivities take part everything from small to large. Broad Maslenitsa is a national holiday, celebrating it colorfully and […]