Bathsheba is a beautiful name, and this woman was just as captivatingly beautiful. It is mentioned in the pages of the Bible. The second Jewish king David was walking around the territory of his palace, going to the roof, his gaze was attracted by Bathsheba bathing in the neighboring garden. The man was fascinated by […]
Year of painting: 1871. Dimensions of the painting: 135.7 x 173 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: historical painting. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
As a friendly company, the schoolchildren came after school to play everyone’s favorite football. In the center of the canvas, Sergei Grigoriev shows us an ordinary boy who is currently the goalkeeper. From his posture and focused face, we understand that all his attention is riveted to the game. The young goalkeeper is not even […]
Year of painting: 1498. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: no data. Writing technique: woodcut. Genre: religious painting. Style: Northern Renaissance. Gallery: Engraving office, Berlin, Germany.
Year of painting: 1950. The dimensions of the painting: 171 x 258 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: socialist realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Year of painting: 1879. Dimensions of the painting: 77 x 177 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: impressionism. Gallery: London National Gallery, London, UK.
Even before he wrote The Major’s Matchmaking, Fedotov composed a poetic foreword to the future picture: “Correction of circumstances, or the marriage of a major.” So the picture turned out to be like an illustration to this poem. And during an exhibition of his works in Moscow in 1850, he composed a long “race”, or […]
Year of painting: 1814. Dimensions of the painting: 45 x 72 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: romanticism. Gallery: Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain.
One of the rare works, which is rarely mentioned in our time, is the painting “Admission to the Komsomol”, quite clearly and expressively reflects the course of the Soviet period and the formation of the socialist system at this stage. In the picture of Sergei Grigoriev, written by him in 1949, a solemn action takes […]
Edgar Degas, like Claude Monet, is considered one of the founders of impressionism. His life was not easy, but he came out of all difficult situations with honor. In his works, Degas could bring the viewer so close to the described situation that one involuntarily begins to participate in the events taking place and experience […]