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.
Kahlo Frida – “Tree of Hope, Stand Straight!”
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.
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 […]
Ge Nikolay – “Transportation of marble in Carrara”
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Goya – “King Charles IV of Spain and his family”
Before us is the famous family portrait of the Spanish monarchs by the court painter Francisco Goya. The overweight figure of the Spanish king Charles IV in a black jacket studded with orders, a wig and white stockings is shifted slightly to the right of the center of the picture. In the very center, the […]