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: 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 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
Description of the picture: Madonna and Child with St. Dominic and St. Thomas Aquinas – Fra Beato Angelico. Between one thousand four hundred twenty four and 1430. Fresco. 196×187 The Italian artist and monk Fra Giovanni da Fiesole was… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: The bean king is Jacob Jordaens. Around 1638. Oil on canvas. 157×211 The Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) is the author of many paintings like the one presented, splashing with fun and enthusiasm. The master… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Fight – Adrian van Ostade. Wood, oil. Forty one x fifty five cm The Dutch painter Adrian van Ostade can be considered the founder of the peasant genre. After all, unlike other artists of the 17th… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: The woman in the window (Treasury) – Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin. 1841. Oil on canvas. 87,5×68 Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857) is considered to be the founder of the Moscow school of painting. In his work, he… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: View of the environs of Brussels – David Teniers the Younger. The beginning of the 1650s. Canvas, oil. 26.6×38.4 In one thousand six hundred fifty one Teniers, a pack of court painters of Archduke Leopold… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Reception of the French ambassador in Venice – Antonio Canal (Canaletto). 1726-1727. Canvas, oil. 181×259.5 Antonio Canal is an Italian painter, one of the greatest Vedic artists depicting everyday urban landscapes. He worked in Venice,… Continue Reading
Description of the picture: Portrait of S. M. Botkina – Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov. 1899. Oil on canvas. 189×139.5 The portrait of S. M. Botkina, by Serov, resolutely goes beyond the framework of the parade portrait genre. The author portrayed… Continue Reading