The landscape of Alexander Andreevich Ivanov was created in the mid-1840s. The painting depicts a chain of young olive trees growing on a low hill. The branches and green foliage of young trees are clearly visible against the sky, illuminated by the rising dawn. Behind the olives, a wide plain looks out, and even further, […]
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.
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.
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: 1946. Dimensions of the painting: 55.9 x 40.6 cm. Material: masonite. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: primitivism, surrealism. Gallery: Collection of Daniel Filipacci, Paris, France.
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.
Year of painting: 1868. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: romanticism. Gallery: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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.
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 […]
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 […]