Description of the picture: Adoration of the Infant Christ – Filippino Lippi. Mid 1480s Copper, tempera. Diameter 53 Filippino Lippi (1460-1505), the son of the artist Fippo Lippi – probably the most famous of the students of Sandro Botticelli, who… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Madonna Conestabile – Rafael Santi. 1504. Canvas, tempera. 17.5×18 cm A beautiful female image, imbued with lyricism, tenderness and unearthly spirituality – all this is about the Little Madonna Conestabil. This picture is of… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Nosha (Laundress) – Honore Daumier. Between 1850-1853. Canvas, oil. 130×98 Honore Daumier (1808-1879) – the largest French graphic artist, master of political caricature, painter and sculptor. If Daumier’s graphic works are filled with irony and… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Fedor Alexandrovich Vasiliev (1850-1873) – a surprisingly delicate landscape painter of the second half of the XIX century. He combined in his work the romantic line of painting by his predecessors and anticipated the emergence… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Parade in the reign of Paul I – Alexander Nikolaevich Benois. 1907. Gouache on paper. 59.6×82 Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (1870-1960) – an outstanding personality at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, a great painter and graphic… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Catherine II – Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov. 1780s Canvas, oil. 160×121 Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov is one of the greatest Russian portrait painters of the second half of the 18th century. Ceremonial Portrait of Empress… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Boats off Normandy – Richard Parks Bonington. Around 1823-1824. Canvas, oil. 34×46 Richard Bonington (1802-1828) – English landscape painter, belonging to the circle of romantics. He studied in France and was friends with Delacroix. Bonington’s… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Crucifixion of Christ – Bartolome Esteban Murillo. Around 1675. Oil on canvas. Ninety eight x 60.2 cm Bartolome Esteban Murillo is a famous Spanish artist of the “Golden Age” hailing from Seville. In the early… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Apostles at the tomb of Christ – Francisco Ribalta. 1590s Canvas, oil. Ninety x 64.5 cm This painting is one of many works on biblical themes. It reflects the moment when the followers of Christ,… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: View of Collioure – Henri Matisse. 1906. Oil on canvas. 53.5 x seventy three cm Minimal use of halftones, bright open paints, wide free strokes, large planes and associative use of warm and cold tones… Continue Reading