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.
Degas Edgar – “Laundresses Iron”
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 […]
Ge – “Return from the Burial of Christ”
Year of painting: 1859. Painting dimensions: 43 x 54.2 cm. Material: paper on cardboard. Writing technique: oil. Genre: religious painting. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Goya Francisco – “Madhouse”
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.
Grigoriev – “Admission to the Komsomol”
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 […]
Degas – “Miss La-La at Fernando’s Circus”
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.
Fedotov – “Major’s matchmaking”
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 […]
Ingres – “Portrait of Napoleon”
Year of painting: 1804. Dimensions of the painting: 227 x 147 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada.
Ge Nikolay – “The Last Supper”
Nicholas Ge’s painting The Last Supper is a strong, powerful work depicting a famous biblical scene that has been referenced by many artists: classics like Rubens and Leonardo da Vinci, and avant-garde artists like Salvador Dali. The painting by Nikolai Ge depicts a very small room in which Jesus Christ and the apostles are. Jesus […]
Burliuk David – “The Peasant Woman and the Horse”
Year of painting: 1910. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: primitivism. Gallery: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.