Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Dmitry Donskoy on Kulikovo Field”

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1. 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 […]...
2. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Zhukovsky”Kiprensky wrote this portrait quickly. At this time, Zhukovsky was just about to leave for the sun-drenched Italy. Researchers say that this picture was not completed. The customer specifically asked not to add the left hand. This was done in order to convey inspiration and creative impulse. The painter depicts Zhukovsky on a favorite background. […]...
3. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Venison”This work was created in difficult times for Kiprensky. The artist, a native of the serfs, always easily found detractors in high society. After returning from Italy, Kiprensky was accused of having killed a model, and although nothing was proven, this incident cast a shadow on his career. In addition to this, rumors spread about […]...
4. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Rostopchin”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 famous people: commanders, writers, poets. One of his famous paintings was the portrait of the politician Rostopchin. Count Rostopchin was the patron of […]...
5. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Natalia Kochubey”Before us is a gorgeous pencil drawing. He is very correct and at the same time extraordinary. Feels special brightness and incredible vitality of all colors. In all, you can see the special skill of Kiprensky, his special taste and a strong mind. Before us is a fully formed style. The format of the creation […]...
6. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Woman’s Portrait”In the 18th century in Russia a special place was occupied by such type of painting as a portrait. A portrait is a picture of a person with the re-creation of a certain individuality. External resemblance to a man, as well as his spiritual world – all this can be displayed on the portrait. Despite […]...
7. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Young gardener”Orest Adamovich Kiprensky is a debutant of romantic explorations of Russian painting and a great portrait painter. Constantly in the creative search, he dreamed of writing large-scale works based on historical and mythical stories. His technique and style was compared with Rubens, sometimes even taking the work of Kiprensky himself for the works of a […]...
8. Description of the painting by Alexander Bubnov “Morning on the Kulikovo Field”Before us is one of the most impressive creations. The painter decided to turn to the theme of the struggle of the people with the Tatar-Mogul. First, he made sketches that are able to tell us about the difficult path of searching that the painter went through. He could not understand how best to express […]...
9. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Newspaper readers in Naples”The picture in the center shows four young men. The man on the left reads a newspaper sheet aloud, and the others listen to him carefully. Orest Kiprensky called the men depicted on the canvas Russian, although some of his contemporaries said that the artist had said so as to somehow smooth out political debates […]...
10. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Self-portrait with tassels behind the ear”“Self-Portrait with Tassels Behind the Ear” was written approximately in 1808. Its author, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, was the best Russian portrait painter of the first half of the 19th century. In the picture – one of several contradictory and mutually exclusive images of the artist, captured by him in the string of self portraits. The […]...
11. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Self-portrait”Portrait painted in 1828. This painting is able to tell us a lot about the artist. Before us is a man with a strong-willed face. He is dressed in an oriental striped robe. Face shaded bright white collar. The strokes are so gorgeous that the surface looks like a mirror. The viewer wants to pay […]...
12. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Alexander Pushkin”Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is deservedly called the Sun of Russian Poetry. And that is exactly how we see it on the portrait of the work of Orestes Kiprensky. This artist had the fame of one of the best portrait painters, and that is why Anton Delvig ordered him to portray his friend, the great poet […]...
13. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Chelishchev”This is one of the best paintings of Orest Adamovich Kiprensky. Thanks to this invaluable work, the author of the work founded a romantic current. The masterpiece was created in 1809. A year earlier, the artist had just started writing the work. Still young, but quite famous in his circles, the painter took up writing […]...
14. Description of the painting by Yuri Raksha “Field Kulikovo”This picture is the most famous work of the popular Soviet artist Yuri Raksha. Triptych consists of three separate pictures, united by one theme. The first is the “Blessing on the Battle”, the second is the “Exposure”, and the third is the “Seeing off the militia”. Instead of depicting scenes on the battlefield, the artist […]...
15. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Alexei Olenin”Kiprensky is known to many admirers of the fine arts as a magnificent master of portraiture. Orest Adamovich wrote many important people from the imperial nobility and the highest circles of literature. “Portrait of Venison” in 1813 – the image of the image of one of the most prominent organizers of cultural life in St. […]...
16. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Avdulin”In 1823, the Russian artist Kiprensky completed the work on a portrait of a woman who later became recognized as one of the best in the genre of romanticism. He wrote in Paris to Catherine Avdulin, the spouse of a major general who was a big fan of secular balls and acquaintances with people of […]...
17. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Anacreon’s Tomb”Orest Kiprensky is a brilliant Russian artist and a wonderful portrait painter. He was the son of a landowner, who appeared out of wedlock. At birth, the boy was enrolled in a family of simple serfs, but in 1788 received his freedom. This gave him the opportunity to enter the Academy of Arts, located in […]...
18. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Girl in a poppy wreath”Orest Kiprensky wrote this whimsical portrait in the first half of the 19th century, or to be more precise, until the 20th year. The work had at various exhibitions and to this day has several names, the most famous of which is “A girl in a poppy wreath with a carnation in her hand (Mariuchcha)”. […]...
19. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Davydov”Orest Adamovich Kiprensky painted a portrait of Davydov in 1809, when the war with Napoleon was just beginning. This picture is a reflection of the poetic cult of the brave and strong hero that prevailed at that time, ready to give a soul for the Motherland. The portrait is associated with Denis Davydov because of […]...
20. Description of the painting by Victor Matorin “Dmitry Donskoy”The modern Moscow painter, to this day pleasing the viewer with his historical canvases, Victor Matorin, has a bright artistic personality, originality of the writing style, and exceptional talent. One of the best paintings of the artist, with historical value can rightly be a portrait of the Grand Duke. The key historical figure of Dmitry […]...
21. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of V. S. Khvostov” (1814)The canvas is a traditional chamber portrait, characteristic of the XVIII century. The senator and the writer is shown by a private person – without awards or distinctions, in ordinary clothes. In reading the image there is no drama and tension of character inherent in the canvases of painters of the past. The most dispassionate, […]...
22. Description of the painting by Apollinarius Vasnetsov “Moscow Kremlin with Dmitry Donskoy”Probably there is no such person who would not hear a song about white-stone Moscow with golden domes. And probably many people have a question: what kind of white-stone is it when the Kremlin is built of red brick? Few people know that at one time the Kremlin was really a white-stone, and Moscow itself […]...
23. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of D. N. Khvostova”Dated 1814, materials – oil on canvas, size – 71 by 57.8 cm. Has a vertical location, located in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Orest Adamovich is a magnificent master of romanticism and academic style, whose canvases were put on the same level as Rembrandt. His manner of writing is well traced in the […]...
24. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Rostopchinoy”“Portrait of Rostopchina” – doubles with a portrait of her husband, and shows him a kind of opposite. Mrs. Rastopchina’s husband was a fussy, talkative, noisy man. He was a collector and a writer, for some time was elected as the Moscow governor, and was the soul of the company, easy-going and fun. His wife, […]...
25. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of A. K. Schwalbe” (1804)The canvas is considered one of the earliest and best works of the artist. The canvas depicts the stepfather of the master – he had seen a lot in his lifetime, a gloomy, self-confident old man, imprinted expressively, prominently, as in Rembrandt’s paintings. Slightly disheveled hair, energetic transitions of light and shade and capacious intense […]...
26. Description of the painting by Alexei Venetsianov “Peasant children in the field”Alexey Venetsianov is a famous Russian painter. The fact that, having received no artistic education, he managed to become an influential artist and even create his own direction in painting is amazing. Peasant life interested artists before, but it was Venetsians who began to depict the peasants with love and affection. The life of the […]...
27. Description of the painting by William Turner “Battle of Trafalgar”In the picture, the author tried to depict a great historical event – the Battle of Trafalgar. This bloody battle took place between Great Britain and the French-Spanish army. The naval battle entered history as one of the most significant battles of the Napoleonic war. It received its name from the Cape Trafalgar, located on […]...
28. 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 […]...
29. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Girl with geese in the field”Vladimir Makovsky – the son of the famous art historian and founder of the School of Painting and Architecture E. I. Makovsky – from his very birth was associated with the world of beauty. Raised in an atmosphere of creativity, he from an early age chose the path of the artist. Vladimir Egorovich dedicated his […]...
30. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Alexander Nevsky”The painting “Alexander Nevsky” was painted in 1942 in honor of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Peipsi. In the war years, when the topic of patriotism became more relevant than ever, Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich repeatedly turned to the heroic pages of Russian history. His heroic cycle included such works as “Yaroslav”, “Victory”, […]...
31. Description of the painting by Ivan Shishkin “Mill in the field”A surprisingly thin picture, the canvas of Shishkin himself, who much later will write “Bears in a Pine Forest”, “Rye”, “Dubrava” and many other quite famous canvases. This canvas is among the first. And it is easy to understand, at least by the way the lower landscape is softly drawn: the mown hay and sheaves […]...
32. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “The Return of the Peasants from the Field”Rubens is an artist from the Netherlands, very prolific, distinguished by stupid vital energy, optimism and ease of hand. He combined in his works Breugel’s realism with the achievements of the Venetian school, wrote on mythological and religious themes, simple nature, portraits of people. His paintings are very diverse and multilateral. “The return of peasants […]...
33. Description of the painting by Peter Krivonogov “Victory”Peter Krivonogov – the famous graduate of the studio M. B. Grekov, who gave the world a lot of talented military artists. Krivonogov had a chance to participate in the last large-scale war – the Great Patriotic War. He went all the way – from Moscow to the victorious Berlin. Having joined the army in […]...
34. Description of the painting by Dmitry Zhilinsky “Sunday”Dmitry Zhilinsky is not at all like any artist and any views relating to them. Moreover, the master’s work differs both in its manner and in the inner filling of the spiritual picture with respect to its professional and everyday habits. If you look closely at the work, you will immediately see that every hero […]...
35. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Victory”Roerich has a unique, “Bogatyrskaya” series of paintings dedicated to the Second World War. Two paintings from this series are in the Novosibirsk gallery. One of them is called “Victory”. The painting was written in 1942. The war was in full swing, the worst days of the Leningrad blockade were still ahead. But Moscow managed […]...
36. Description of the painting by Dmitry Levitsky “Portrait of Demidov”Dmitry G. Levitsky, who lived in the time of Catherine II, was a master of the so-called “ceremonial portraits”, where models were depicted in all the splendor of ceremonial clothes and regalia. In such works, everything is carefully verified – and the pose of the person portrayed, and the look, and the suit, and, of […]...
37. Description of the painting by Dmitry Levitsky “Portrait Dyakova”“Portrait of Dyakova” is one of many portraits of Levitsky. Neglecting means of expressiveness, such as a background, fancy clothing, or symbolic objects that give the picture a second, or even third, layer of meaning, he found the differences of models in a barely noticeable turn of the head, in a leaning shoulder, in a […]...
38. Description of the painting by Vladimir Orlovsky “In the field”Before us is the grand creation of a true master. Orlovsky depicts, at first glance, an unremarkable landscape. We see the traditional field for Russia. In the foreground – a grass of green and yellow flowers. On the left you can see tracts of land without grass. They are burned by the sun. If we […]...
39. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Poppy field”The admirers of his work have already become accustomed to his unusually colorful panels, but the landscape here is extremely beautiful. A poppy is a flower of sleep and love. His scarlet color always tells us about the brightness and transience of love and its rapid flight in human life. And the fact that the […]...
40. Description of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh “Field of Poppies”The surrounding nature, and especially the flowers in the paintings of Van Gogh always attract the inimitable beauty and liveliness. The Dutch painter chose landscapes for his paintings with sunflowers, irises and lilac bushes, as well as spacious fields of poppies and other wildflowers and fruit trees. In the picture of 1889 “The Field of […]...