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
Description of the picture: Prophets king Solomon and Ezekiel – Unknown artist. The beginning of the XVI century. Wood, tempera, gilding. 61,5×98 Icon with images of the Old Testament prophets of Solomon and Ezekiel originally placed in the iconostasis, which… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of Count M. M. Speransky – Pavel Alekseevich Ivanov. 1806. Bone, watercolor, gouache. 7.5×6.3 The art of portrait miniatures on bones reached its peak in the 18th – first half of the 19th centuries. Small… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Descent from the Cross – Sebastiano del Piombo. Oil on Canvas, two hundred sixty x one hundred ninety three cm The painting was painted during the artist’s stay in Rome. During this period, he was influenced… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of F. Ya. Dubyansky – Alexey Petrovich Antropov. Canvas, oil. 99.5 x 76.5 cm The representative of Russian painting of the Baroque era A.P. Antropov is known as one of the founders of portraiture. As… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: The educational house in Moscow – Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev. Watercolor on paper, 30.2 x 46.5 cm At the beginning of the 19th century, the famous master of urban landscape F. Ya. Alekseev, on the instructions of… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of a floor hetman – Ivan Nikitich Nikitin. 1720s Canvas, oil. 76×60 Ivan Nikitich Nikitin (circa one thousand six hundred eighty – not earlier than 1742) is one of the founders of Russian secular painting.… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Adolescence of the Madonna – Francisco de Zurbaran. Between 1658-1660. Canvas, oil. 73.5×53.5 Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664) belongs to the galaxy of Spanish artists of the XVII century. His work, despite the religious theme, is very… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: The mother with the sleeping child is Juan Batista Martinez del Maso. Around 1660. Oil on canvas. Sixty nine x fifty seven cm. This picture is very different from the ceremonial portraits of the artist… Continue Reading