Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Dante and Vergelii on the ice of Lake Kocid”

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1. 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 artistic character is opened to the contemplator of the noble, kind. The main purpose of his life – the destruction of […]...
2. Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Bible”French engraver and painter Gustave Dore left a rich artistic heritage on the theme of religion. Several hundred illustrations were created by him in the subjects of the bible. His unique drawings reflected bible stories from the Old and New Testaments. He did not confine himself to these two important spiritual books, and added illustrations […]...
3. Description of the illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides”Description of the illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides” Throughout his entire creative life, the artist has created more than 500 illustrations of famous works, including fairy tales and biblical scenes. The first illustrations of the Divine Comedy, Dante Dore began writing at the age of ten and continued over the years. This […]...
4. Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Angel”Dore created magnificent illustrations for various subjects of the Bible. They were published in various editions of the Bible in different languages. Many masters created plots on a religious theme. But it was Dore who became the most outstanding among them. Impressively realistic engraver style. He was able to give each story almost a new […]...
5. Description of the painting by Sandro Botticelli “Portrait of Dante”In the works of the Italian artist of the period of the 80s of the 15th century, there is a clear interest in the figure of Dante. Appeal to the incarnation of the famous poet, author of the immortal “Divine Comedy.” the painter seeks to reconsider his views after the Pope’s fun and slightly dissolute […]...
6. Description of the painting by Stanislav Zhukovsky “Forest Lake”Zhukovsky is a master of landscape, and Forest Lake is one of his quite traditional works. The painting depicts a forest lake, the surface of water bounded by distant shores. There are trees growing on them, there is a leaning booth – someone’s boat shed, perhaps? – and above the lake is a huge blue […]...
7. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Dante”Painting by Salvador Dali “Dante” is one of the artist’s illustrations to the work “Divine Comedy”, depicting its author – Dante Alighieri. Drawing watercolor looks simple and brilliant at the same time. There are no extra strokes or shades. He portrays an Italian scribe and poet walking in an important and thoughtful pose (this is […]...
8. Description of the painting by Efim Volkov “Forest Lake”Although Volkov depicted his “Forest Lake” in dark colors, the picture is still very pleasant and joyful. In the middle of the composition a dark forest lake is depicted, and to describe it, Volkov took the darkest colors in the picture. With the help of this technique, he makes the lake deep and bottomless. It […]...
9. Description of the painting by Nicholas Romadin “Forest Lake”Nikolai Mikhailovich Romadin painted a picture with a clear predominance of exclusively dark tones. The picture depicts a dark lake in the middle of a forest thicket. The visual depth of the lake was achieved by the artist, also thanks to the use of dark tones, which even gives it a certain mystery and virginity […]...
10. Description of the painting by Dante Rossetti “Beatrice Blessed”Dante Rossetti, like his famous idol-writer, had a beloved named Beatrice. This similarity was fatal. The girl, as well as the poet’s passions, did not have a long and happy life. She died at a very early age from taking in laudanum. The only significant and significant difference was that Rossetti was married to his […]...
11. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Forest Lake”The painting was written in 1890. Levitan, like any professional artist, always did sketches before writing the main picture. Many such etudes with a lake landscape have been preserved. In his picture Levitan depicted the extraordinary nature and versatility of nature. It seems that the foreground is dissolved in the picture. It spreads in the […]...
12. Description of the painting by Dante Rossetti “Proserpina”Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, artist and translator. In memory, he remained as a romantic person, bright and extraordinary. He worked under the influence of European Symbolists and was a major follower of the aesthetic line in art. His art is characterized by sensuality and medieval poetry. Poetry and appearance are closely […]...
13. Description of the painting by Georgia About Kiff “Out of the Lake”Two and a half thousand works. That is exactly how much American artist Georgia Oh Kiff created in 70 years out of 99 lived in the world. And although her favorite subjects were plants and, oddly enough, the skulls and bones of animals, among the hundreds of works are such as the picture “From the […]...
14. Description of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Lake Ladoga”This canvas was written in 1873. All the summer of 1872, Kuinji spent on Valaam. The result was the emergence of this ingenious creation. The landscape is at a crossroads. On the one hand, this is a realistic understanding by the artist of nature. But at the same time, the characteristic influence of romanticism is […]...
15. Description of the painting by Vasily Kandidsky “Lake”Vasily Kandidsky is a Russian émigré artist who left his homeland in 1896. His artistic career began in Germany at the age of 30 years. The heyday of artistic career falls on the years of teaching in one of the Munich art schools. The school was located in a rather beautiful place at the confluence […]...
16. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “Sadko on the bank of Ilmen-lake”Vrubel, like no one, knew how to portray a fairy tale on his canvases. His imagination had no limits, his work did not tolerate platitudes. He drank deeply, walked a lot, played gambling. By the end of his life, the artist was completely mad. The author’s lifestyle was ruined by the author, but made his […]...
17. Description of the painting by Eugene Delacroix “Rook Dante”Delacroix borrowed the plot for his famous “Rook” from the legendary “Divine Comedy”. Thanks to this work, the artist was marked by the first great achievement in his 24 years. The very name of the canvas already contains a reference to the symbolism of the written image. After all, even the ancient ancestors of the […]...
18. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “On the lake”The picture was painted in oil on canvas in 1893, when Levitan was in Tver. Currently, it is stored in the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery. It was at this time that Levitan begins to get involved in the pastel technique of writing pictures, with which he manages to express the entire color gamut of most shades […]...
19. Description of the painting by Eugene Delacroix “Dante and Virgil”Eugene Delacroix is rightfully considered the founder of French Romanticism. Most of his works are intense epic scenes, made in rich contrasting colors, not characteristic of neoclassicism that still dominates in France at the beginning of the 19th century. The origin of Eugene Delacroix is still shrouded in mystery, according to one version, he is […]...
20. Description of the painting by Ivan Shishkin “Landscape with a lake”Shishkin is a famous Russian artist, at least known to all by the painting “Morning in a Pine Forest”, which is printed on a wrapper of sweets and often catches the eye, as the most famous work of the master. Many of his paintings are exhibited in museums, some – next to the works of […]...
21. Gustav Courbet painting description “Self-portrait”Looking at the work of the French artist Gustave Courbet, there is no doubt that he was the most ingenious master of the portrait. And he wrote not only portraits of other people, but himself, and wrote a lot of them. A sort of model for himself. From the image to the image, we see […]...
22. Description of the painting by Sandro Botticelli “Hell”One of the most famous works of Alessandro Botticelli was written by the author at the peak of fame in 1480. The picture has a more complete name, namely “The Abyss of Hell” and is one of the illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. The history of writing a picture is quite interesting and remarkable. […]...
23. Description of the painting by Dante Rossetti “Beloved” (Bride)“Beloved” (also known as “The Bride”) – oil painting on canvas, written in 1865 by British artist of Italian origin Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Now she is in the London Tate Gallery. On the gilded frame, two passages are carved from the biblical canonical text known as the Song of Solomon. It is said that Rossetti, […]...
24. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Lake. Rus “This last picture of Levitan was painted in 1895. “Lake Rus” – the main work of the painter of the later period. The artist has not completed this creation, as he died. But even in this unfinished form, the picture makes a huge impression on all viewers. Sunny day, its incredible freshness and special brightness, […]...
25. Description of the painting by Dante Rossetti “Lady Lilith”The work of the English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti “Lady Lilit” was created by the author back in 19878. Work on the picture lasted as much as 12 years. During this time, the artist has constantly changed the models, and the picture had to be redrawn anew. The author in his work portrayed the image […]...
26. Description of the painting by Konstantin Kryzhitsky “Lake”Brilliant Russian landscape painter. How photographically accurately captured the landscape! The picture amazes us with its vastness, a huge, wide lake, a calm surface, in which small islands, steep sandy beaches, skies with large fluffy cumulus clouds, driven by fresh winds, are reflected as in a mirror. The blueness of the open spaces simply fascinates! […]...
27. Description of the painting by Gregory Bobrovsky “Lake”The manner of writing Bobrovsky is striking in its breadth. His colors are expressive. The artist pays maximum attention to lighting. In his paintings one feels a deliberate etude. The composition is fragmentary. The painter sought to convey the living perception of nature. In the painting “Lake” we see the usual, seemingly, landscape. But it […]...
28. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Love”From the beginning of the 90s a new period began in the work of Gustav Klimt. At this time, the artist felt a keen desire to go beyond the academic traditions, despite his popularity in the artistic circles of the Viennese society. In 1895, Klimt painted the picture “Love.” It is one of the works […]...
29. Description of the painting by Dante Rossetti “Annunciation”This work is one of the most famous in the work of the British, who was not only an artist, but also a writer and translator. The Annunciation is one of the most important events and festivals of Christianity. An innocent maiden named Maria took a vow of lifelong celibacy and chastity and led a […]...
30. Description of the painting by Klimt Gustav “Water snakes”Gustav Klimt from 1904 to 1907 was engaged in writing two paintings with a practically identical plot: “Water snakes I” and “Water snakes II”. The appearance of these pictures, or rather of these feminine figures, entices the viewer into the world of sweet fantasies, enchanting all men and young men with their appearance, causing a […]...
31. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I” (Golden Adel)The Golden Adel is the most significant canvas of Gustav. Portrait of the Austrian Mona Lisa deserved scandalous fame. In 2006 it was sold for a huge amount – more than one hundred million US dollars. In 2015, about the canvas was filmed “Woman in Gold”. The painting with the image of Adele Bloch-Bauer was […]...
32. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “The second portrait of Adele”Gustav is an Austrian artist. The second portrait of Adele, Gustav wrote in 1912. This picture is one of the ten most expensive art masterpieces in the world. What is the history of this model? Adele Bloch-Bower was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who was one very rich industrialist of those times. Ferdinand loved art […]...
33. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Girlfriend”Gustav Klimt painted the picture “Girlfriends” in 1916-1917. Unfortunately, the original of the painting did not reach us – it burned down in 1945. The author painted his work based on the complete contrast of the bodies of two girls, girlfriends – one of them is naked, the other on the contrary – wrapped in […]...
34. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Music”The idea of ​​synthesizing methods of music, painting and literature permeates all the creative practices of symbolism, to which many artists of the era of the turn of the century addressed. This fate did not pass and the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, in the paintings of which (“Music” in 1895, the cycle “Beethoven Frieze”) clearly […]...
35. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn “Valaam donkey”“Valaam donkey” – a picture of Rembrandt van Rijn, written in 1626. This canvas, 65×47 cm in size, is located in the Parisian Museum Cognac-Zhe. It depicts the biblical prophet Balaam and his talking ass. The painting was painted in the Leiden period of Rembrandt. In 1625 he opened his first workshop there and began […]...
36. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Lady with a Fan”Gustav Klimt had the gift of a painter from birth, however, he did not rely only on originality, but honed his art at the School of Decorative Arts, in Vienna. For a long time, his canvases were created in a familiar, academic manner, without betraying the artist’s true thrust for bright, fantastic images and colors. […]...
37. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Girls”The picture of the famous Austrian artist of the beginning of the 20th century “Girls” is better known to a narrow circle of connoisseurs of extravagant art as “Three Ages of Woman.” even saturating the picture with phallic symbols. On the right side of the picture is a baby – a girl, hugging his mother […]...
38. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Hope II”German artist Gustav Klimt was the creator of art nouveau works. The roots come from the group of the Vienna Secession, created by the artist himself. The group was engaged in the publication of works by young painters who painted in unusual styles. The breadth of genres was the main focus in the works of […]...
39. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Waiting”The mosaic for the Waiting dining room is a decorative addition to the architectural design of the palace. In general, the mosaic consists of nine basic elements, but this one is considered the main one. It depicts a dancing girl, in whose image Japanese features are clearly visible. This was the main wish of the […]...
40. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Kiss”Klimt’s work of art, entitled “The Kiss”, is not only the best painting of all the works of this painter, but is also a significant and unique painting canvas that was created in the twentieth century. Execution of a hundred years of painting is an excellent reason to think about what can give us, descendants, […]...