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1. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Madonna with a Pomegranate”“Madonna with a Pomegranate” is the earliest, quite touching and spontaneous Madonna, which was created by the great painter and master Leonardo. Each of the subsequent images from Madonna will be very close to its compositional and stylistic component to the “Madonna with a Pomegranate”. The painter had the presence of a special composition, with […]...
2. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “The Last Supper”The Last Supper is a fresco by Leonardo De Vinci, which is presented in the form of a scene from the last supper of Christ surrounded by his disciples. The artist created it in the years 1495-1498 in the monastery called “Santa Maria” located in Milan. This work is quite traditional for that era. It […]...
3. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Self-portrait”“Self-portrait” by Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous works of the artist, which, perhaps, gives viewers an idea of what the famous Renaissance artist looked like. However, some experts believe that this is a completely different person. However, this picture was painted at about the time when Leonardo was about 60 years […]...
4. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Vitruvian Man”The picture of the Vitruvian Man is a work that was created by Leonardo da Vinci in the years 1490-92 as an illustration for a book. The book itself was devoted to the works of Vitruvius, and the illustration by Da Vinci was placed in her diary. The figure clearly shows the image of a […]...
5. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Lady with an Ermine”The Lady with an Ermine was written by Leonardo Da Vinci towards the end of the 15th century. It is assumed that the girl depicted in the picture is the favorite of Lodovico Sforza Cecilia Galleroni. Just in the years of writing a picture of Leonardo was in the service of the duke. “The Lady […]...
6. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Portrait of Genevra de Benchi”The work of Leonardo Da Vinci “Portrait of Ginevra de Benchi” refers to the early work of the artist. The artist often painted women, this is one of the distinguishing features of his work. In addition, the facial features are drawn so clearly and vividly that it is not at all difficult to guess the […]...
7. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “The Annunciation”Quite a long time lasted disputes about the authorship of this picture. Some experts believed that the “Annunciation” was written by Ghirlandaio, while others believed that the painting was painted by the young Leonardo da Vinci. However, after some time, scientists still came to the conclusion that the “Annunciation” refers to the early works of […]...
8. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “John the Baptist”“John the Baptist” is a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian Renaissance artist. This oil painting refers to the later period of the artist’s work and testifies not only to the creative decline of Da Vinci, but also to the end of the Renaissance era itself. This is clearly seen from the character of […]...
9. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Madonna in the grotto” (Madonna in the rocks)This work of art was done in oil on the panel, and subsequently transferred to the canvas by Leonardo Da Vinci from a period of one thousand four hundred eighty-third to one thousand four hundred eighty-sixth year. The main feature of this work lies in the fact that it is one of the paintings, which […]...
10. Description of the painting by Leonardo Da Vinci “Madonna with a Carnation”Madonna with a flower by Leonardo Da Vinci portrayed at a young age. At this time, his paintings were influenced by the work of Verrocchio, who was his teacher. This is the first independent creation of the artist. Contemporary noticed an expressive detail. Da Vinci depicts a carafe of water. He managed to pass the […]...
11. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Madonna”Numerous studies of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci indicate that a separate theme in the artist’s work was the theme of the mother and her child. Often in his paintings there are images of a young woman, expressing care and concern for her baby. Currently stored in the Hermitage of St. Petersburg. Experts believe that […]...
12. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “Madonna with a flower” (Madonna Benoit)Madonna with a flower is one of the first works of art of Leonardo. Da Vinci portrayed Madonna in a room with a darkened view, in which the image in the depth of a double window is the only source of light. The window is presented in the addition of greenish light, which can not […]...
13. Description of the painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir “Lisa with an umbrella”The painting “Lisa with an umbrella” is one of the most lively and voluminous works of the author. The play of light and darkness on the canvas gives the composition a greater volume and expression, which is why the work of art draws the eye to itself. The main figure of the canvas is Liza […]...
14. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “The head of a woman”Leonardo Da Vinci – the great artist of the Renaissance. The most important feature of his work is that he with incredible accuracy and expressiveness conveyed the emotions of a person in his paintings, carefully drawing absolutely everything, even the smallest details. In order to complete the work, the great artist repeatedly made multiple sketches […]...
15. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Poor Lisa”Very interesting portrait of Kiprensky. It was written on the story of Karamzin of the same name. There is also a clear connection with the life of the painter. The artist was a real psychologist who created magnificent portraits of women. He was able to convey the feminine soul. All his heroines necessarily sad about […]...
16. 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 […]...
17. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Girl with a pearl earring”Johann Reiners Vermeer is one of the most mysterious Dutch painters. About him, as well as about his customers and even about his number of paintings, we know not much. The picture is kept in the gallery Mauritshuys in the Dutch city of The Hague and is one of the most valuable works presented in […]...
18. Description of the painting by Jacques-Louis David “Self-portrait” (1794)This picture shows us the character and appearance of Jacques-Louis David, how the artist himself felt. He wanted the audience to recognize in him a man of strong-willed, restrained, passionate and inclined to spiritual impulse. One need only look at the artist’s self-portrait in order to understand the reasons why he joined the revolutionaries and […]...
19. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn “Self-portrait”Rembrandt is a 17th century Dutch artist. He painted over 90 of his portraits. And his most famous self-portrait was written in 1640, already being a well-known and recognized artist. Rembrandt became famous as a portrait painter. Among other famous self-portraits, the work of 1640 stands out. Pictured here is a confident man dressed in […]...
20. Description of the painting by Paul Gauguin “Bathers”This picture is one of the most expensive paintings in the world, which were sold in the XX-XXI centuries. The piece was sold for fifty-five million dollars in two thousand and five. The presence of decorative in color, as well as plane and monumental composition of tones are very close to the then popular style […]...
21. Description of the painting by Giorgione “Portrait of a Young Man”Full of unsolved mysteries, a picture of Barbarelli da Castelfranco Giorgione “Portrait of a Young Man” is not at all like typical portraits of the Renaissance. A characteristic feature of portraiture of the Renaissance is, above all, the direct gaze of the person portrayed to the viewer, the emergence of a sense of “pursuit” of […]...
22. Description of the painting by Vasily Tropinin “Portrait of N. M. Karamzin”Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was not only a legendary writer, a talented poet, an excellent translator, but also an excellent historian. He had a great influence on the formation of the linguistic and literary culture of the country. It was he who translated many works of William Shakespeare from English into Russian. He did this work […]...
23. Description of the painting by Caspar Friedrich “Morning”Frederick is a German artist, one of the main representatives of romanticism. Like all other painters who gave preference to this genre, he put the personality at the forefront as something that could change the world, if not with his deeds, then with perception. As something intrinsic and priceless, as something that gives meaning to […]...
24. Description of the painting by Sandro Botticelli “Portrait of a young woman”In the years of his life, Sandro Botticelli was a famous artist who was often approached with orders from portraits. One of those who wanted to order a portrait was Simonetta, one of the most beautiful women of the Renaissance. “Portrait of a young woman” 1476-1480 is considered one of the best portraits of the […]...
25. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Self-portrait”The artist wrote this self-portrait as a teenager. At this time, he is not yet recognized by all, and the skill has not come to him. Levitan 20 years. We see a young man with the typically southern features of his strong-willed person. Hair, incredibly wavy, form the whole characteristic cap. Eyes are very huge […]...
26. Description of the painting by Eugene Delacroix “George Sand”Before us is a fragment of a once whole picture depicting George Sand and Frederic Chopin. He met the French writer Delacroix at the end of 1833, and the result of this meeting was a long friendship not without a hint of mutual sympathy. The artist liked the independence of the woman, her resistance to […]...
27. Description of the painting by Lyubov Popova “Traveler”The picture “Traveler” Lyubov Popova, which was called the Amazon of the Russian avant-garde, was written in the heyday of his work in 1916 during a trip abroad. Thin lines that are thoughtfully connected using straight and broken lines, triangles, squares and semicircles that form one common composition, probably due to smooth smoothing of oval […]...
28. Description of the painting by Ivan Nikitin “Portrait of Chancellor Golovkin”Art critics have long argued about this picture, some still doubt it, but still, most say that this particular work of art brought the artist maximum fame. Indeed, the portrait of Golovkin is not just a homely secular portrait, which was created only to capture the appearance of another secular person. No, the peculiarity of […]...
29. Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov “In Russia” (Soul of the People)In Nesterov’s intention to create the painting “In Russia” arose 10 years before it was written and was originally called “Christians”. The author in artistic form reflects on the fate of the Russian people and their country. Not without reason in the plot we see peripetias, developing from antiquity to modernity. Here we can see […]...
30. Description of the painting by Ivan Tikhiy “Storks”I. Tikhiy in his work “Storks” displayed lightness, a sense of flight and movement. The artist is very profitable conveyed the beauty of nature, it gave boundless. The azure sky is set off by white fragments of clouds. A hot summer day allows the colors to play even brighter. The landscape beckons with its beauty, […]...
31. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Boy with a pipe”A vivid representative of the “pink period” of the work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is the painting “A Boy with a Tube”. At the time of writing this canvas, the genius of the brush was only 24 years old; He wrote it on Monmarthe, in the Bato-Lavoir hostel in 1905. In the picture […]...
32. Description of the painting by Dmitry Levitsky “Portrait of Catherine 2”Levitsky painted a picture in 1783. The viewer can present the features of the portrait in the period of classicism. We can understand the features of art, its symbolism and allegory. Catherine is in the temple of the goddess of justice itself. She burns poppy flowers on a special altar. Instead of a crown on […]...
33. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Winter road in the forest”Any artist has a sketchbook – this is such a folder where sketches, sketches or just sketches of details for the future canvas are put together. Many museums keep such sketches from da Vinci or from Monet. There are such sketches or sketches and Levitan. Before us is one of such works, made in pencil […]...
34. Description of the painting by Jean-Auguste Ingres “Consul Napoleon”Ingres was neither a revolutionary, nor a conservative, nor a romantic. Most of all he was interested in the form. Not an ideal form, but associated with the originality of the objects depicted. “Consul Napoleon” – the first Napoleon portrait of authorship of Ingres. The second portrait was written two years later, when Napoleon was […]...
35. Description of the painting by Dmitry Levitsky “Self-portrait”Work written in 1783. Its unusual and mysterious story to this day remains not fully disclosed. Relatively recently, this work was called the “Portrait of the Unknown” and was purchased from a private person in the 50s of the last century, together with the similarly sized “Portrait of the Unknown”. Both works were exhibited together […]...
36. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “River in the forest”In the famous landscape painting of I. Levitan, his modest place is occupied by the painting “The River in the Forest”. Place paintings in the works of Levitan modest only in comparison with the other masterpieces of the artist. In general, the “River in the Forest” fully creates the famous Levitan “landscape mood”, conveying the […]...
37. Description of the painting by Nicholas Ge “Portrait of Herzen”Nikolai Nikolayevich Ge wrote his famous work in 1867 in Florence. Delivered her to Russia under the guise of a picture of the prophet Moses. This was all done in secret, otherwise the gendarmes on the border would have destroyed the portrait, like an image of a rebel. Ge previously closed the portrait with a […]...
38. Description of the painting by Jacques-Louis David “Madame Recamier”Madame Julie Recamier, the owner of a fashionable salon in Paris and a famous beauty, commissioned her portrait to renowned artist Jean Louis David. The artist in the process of writing a portrait, could not get used to the meager lighting in the room, because of which he did not go to work. Madame Julie […]...
39. Description of the painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir “Girl with a watering can”Pierre Auguste Renoir is one of the most famous representatives of impressionism. He became famous as a secular portrait painter – he was the first impressionist to become popular with the wealthy public, who considered it fashionable to order a portrait from Renoir. The rich people liked the slight hue of sentimentality inherent in the […]...
40. Description of the painting by Giorgione “The Thunderstorm” (Storm)Venetian painter Giorgione struck everyone with his Thunderstorm. The viewer will not see a specific plot here. The main character of this picture is the thunderstorm. The artist relegated the background to the brilliance of a lightning arrow, which, like a snake, flashed in the air. Immediately on the right and left, the foreground displays […]...