Painting by Ivanov “Archangel Gabriel strikes Zachariah dumb”

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1. The composition of Ivanov’s painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People” Great contribution to the Russian culture was introduced by Ivanov Alexander Andreevich with his canvas “The Appearance of Christ to the People.” The picture itself found its place in the Moscow Public Rumyantsev Museum. Etudes of this canvas are in a separate room in the Tretyakov Gallery. The author spent almost twenty years creating the […]...
2. Painting by Ivanov “Appia road at sunset” Ivanov carefully peered into the landscapes of Italy – the cradle of European civilization. Here, not only every stone, but the earth itself is a witness of history. Here is the Appian Way, which was laid by the ancient Romans in 312 BC. e. Like the wrinkles on the old man’s face, it bears traces […]...
3. The composition of Ivanov’s painting “Portrait of Vittoria Caldoni” Vittoria Caldoni – the daughter of a poor winemaker from Albano, had a rare beauty. She became a favorite model for many famous painters and sculptors who lived in the first decades of the XIX century in Italy. Her beauty was inspired by NV Gogol, immortalizing her in her novel “Rome” under the name Annunziata. […]...
4. Painting by Repin “Portrait of Tretyakov” Among a number of portraits of IE Repin, one of the most remarkable is the portrait of Pavel Tretyakov, the founder of the gallery of Russian artists who later became a real national treasure. Tretyakov, who deeply respected and appreciated Repin’s work, acquired many of his paintings. Repin, in turn, deeply appreciated the ascetic activity […]...
5. Painting by Ivanov “Bellerophon goes on a campaign against the chimera” The picture is devoid of uniqueness of the heroic and pathetic pathos of traditional academic programs. The artist treats the ideal image multifaceted, endowing it with purely human traits: inner struggle, a sense of eternity and a firm determination to accomplish the feat. The plot for the picture was the ancient Greek legend of the […]...
6. Painting by Kramskoy “Portrait of PM Tretyakov” As far as I know, Kramskoy and Tretyakov were friends who met in 1869. In addition to the paintings bought by Tretyakov for his gallery from Kramskoy, and there were not a few of them (only about 12 were ordered for portraits), they were joined by friendly meetings and correspondence on the themes of political […]...
7. The composition of Ivanov’s painting “The Seven Boys” The painting “Family” by SV Ivanov depicts a winter landscape. The country road, along which people go, was covered with snow. In the foreground works of the landlord family. Their outfits are very harmoniously combined with each other. All members of the family are dressed very brightly and festively. It can be assumed that Christmas […]...
8. Painting Serov “Portrait of Dragomirova” Among the portraits painted at the end of the 1880s, the portrait of Sophia Dragomirova is a kind of evidence of the growth of Serov’s glory. C Sophia Drahomirova Serov met in the workshop of Repin. Sofya Mikhailovna Dragomirova (in the marriage of Lukomskaya) wrote to I. Grabar. “I remember that when I arrived in […]...
9. Biography Ivanov Vyacheslav Ivanovich (28.02.1866 – 16.07.1949) Writer Was born in Moscow. Father – a small servant of the Control Chamber, died in 1871. Mother was the daughter of a Senate official; she has since childhood instilled in her son a patriarchal faith in God and a love of poetry. In the first Moscow gymnasium, which Ivanov graduated with […]...
10. Painting by Kramskoy “Nekrasov in the period of the Last Songs” Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov really wanted to collect in his gallery as many portraits of outstanding people in Russia. He was very fond of and appreciated the work of Alexei Nikolaevich Nekrasov. Upon learning of his illness, he asked Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy more than once to carry out similar orders to draw a portrait of the […]...
11. Painting Serov “Portrait of Kasyanov” Among the most famous Russian artists is a talented man Serov Valentin Alexandrovich. He belonged to the artists of the Wanderers, who drew their inspiration in folk life and traditions. But many art connoisseurs know this artist precisely from his portraits. There is in his arsenal of work “Portrait of Kasyanov.” Kasyanov Alexander Vasilievich was […]...
12. Painting Serov “Portrait of A. V. Kasyanov” Among the most famous Russian artists is a talented man Serov Valentin Alexandrovich. He belonged to the artists of the Wanderers, who drew their inspiration in folk life and traditions. But many art connoisseurs know this artist precisely from his portraits. There is in his arsenal of the work “Portrait of A. V. Kasyanov.” Kasyanov […]...
13. Biography Ivanov Georgy Vladimirovich (1894 – 1958) A poet, a prose writer. He was born on October 29 (November 10, 2001) in the Kovno province to a wealthy noble family with military traditions. Children’s days were spent on the Studenki estate, on the border with Poland. He received primary education at home, then studied at the Second Cadet Corps. […]...
14. Biography Ivanov Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich (1895 – 1963) A prose writer, a playwright. He was born on February 12 (24 n.) In the village of Lebyazhye in Semipalatinsk province, in the family of a village teacher. After graduating from the village school and studying for a year at the Pavlodar agricultural school, Ivanov went to work as an assistant to […]...
15. The Painting by Rubens “Beating babies” Rubens spent the years 1600-1608 in Italy and Spain, where he immersed himself in the world of classical art and the Renaissance art. After returning to Antwerp, inspired by the works of the old Masters, he wrote a series of paintings on religious and mythological themes. The London National Gallery exhibits one of the most […]...
16. Painting by Repin “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan” This is one of the examples of the artist’s appeal to historical subjects, which caused him associations with the events of modern Russian life. For the first time the thought of writing a sad episode from the life of Ivan IV the Terrible came to Repin in 1882 after the Rimsky-Korsakov concert at the Moscow […]...
17. Summary Ivanov V. V Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov (12 (24) February 1895, Lebyazhye settlement of Semipalatinsk province, now Kazakhstan – August 15, 1963, Moscow) is a Soviet writer. Born in the family of a teacher. Ivanov’s youth was held in Western Siberia; he did not finish school, he was forced to make a living early, mastered various professions (a typewriter, […]...
18. Painting by Pimenov “New Moscow” The streets are moving cars – it’s “emki” produced at the Soviet car factory, the artist showed us the changes that occurred in Moscow during the years of Soviet power. Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov New Moscow. Pimenov Yuri Ivanovich was born on November 26 (According to the new style, November 13 in the old), 1903. My […]...
19. The Painting by Makovsky “Two mothers” The collection of works by Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky in the Samara Art Museum is one of the most interesting among provincial museums. A large collection of paintings by Russian artists of the XIX-early XX century, which formed the basis of the picturesque collection of the museum, previously belonged to the family of Samara patrons Shikhobalov. […]...
20. Painting by Bryullov “Portrait of Samoylova with Giovannina Pacini and Arapchonka” By the beginning of the 1830s, Bryullov occupied one of the leading places in Russian and Western European art. (His glory of the outstanding master of the portrait was fixed by the “Horseman”). A new speech by a Russian artist who exhibited at the next Italian exhibition “Portrait of Count Yu. P. Samoilova with her […]...
21. Summary “Ivanov” by Chekhov The action takes place in one of the counties of the central strip of Russia. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ivanov, a landowner, sits in his garden and reads a book. Misha Borkin, his distant relative and the manager of his estate, drunkenly returns from the hunt. Seeing Ivanov, takes aim at him with a gun, laughs at […]...
22. “Chekhov’s Ivanov” in brief summary The action takes place in one of the counties of the central strip of Russia. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ivanov, a landowner, sits in his garden and reads a book. Misha Borkin, his distant relative and the manager of his estate, drunkenly returns from the hunt. Seeing Ivanov, takes aim at him with a gun, laughs at […]...
23. The Painting by Bryullov “Italian Morning” 1823, shortly after his arrival in Italy, Bryullov wrote “Italian Morning”. The painting is exhibited at the exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. “Morning” brought him wide fame. The picture won everybody – the Italian, and then the Russian audience, members of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists and, finally, […]...
24. Painting by Yuon “Russian Winter., Ligachevo” KF Yuon is a wonderful landscape painter. In his paintings he showed his love for nature, he created a generalized image of the Motherland. In his autobiographical essay, Yuon wrote: “In these pictures I tried to convey the majestic and monumental and poetic sound of Russian nature. I was looking for solemn notes, which were […]...
25. The Painting by Van Gogh “Portrait of Dr. Ray” Irish artist Francis Bacon, a direct descendant of the famous philosopher and full of his namesake. In the works of Bacon clearly seen the influence of Picasso, and such areas as surrealism and expressionism. The artist himself called himself a realist, and said: “Nothing can be more terrible than life itself”. His paintings already in […]...
26. The Painting by Roerich “King Solomon” In the works of Svyatoslav Roerich, religious motives gradually appear. Beginning was the work of “The Head of the Franciscan Monk” (1923, Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York), according to the artist himself “very expressive and full of life.” Initially, the canvas was for Ruth Page, but when it was finished, the artist refused to send […]...
27. Painting by Makovsky “The Collapse of the Bank” This painting was written in 1870, it shows a terrible event for people. In those years, a private bank called the Loan Bank was ruined in Moscow. Mainly the middle class of the population suffered, in connection with the frauds taking place in this institution. The work of Makovsky almost immediately after writing was purchased […]...
28. The composition of Vasnetsov’s painting “The Knight at the Crossroads” The picture tells the viewer that everything in life is a choice, but there are moments when there is not, what to choose, when there is no choice, and will have to go where fate tells. Maybe because that way you can become either a winner in life or a loser to death. Often VM […]...
29. Summary Ivanov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov AP Chekhov Ivanov The action takes place in one of the counties of the central strip of Russia. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ivanov, a landowner, sits in his garden and reads a book. Misha Borkin, his distant relative and the manager of his estate, drunkenly returns from the hunt. Seeing Ivanov, takes aim at him with a […]...
30. Painting by Kiprensky “Portrait of Kochubei” Natalia V. Kochubei. This name is familiar to all lovers of A. Pushkin’s poetry. For many years, Natalia Viktorovna was the poet’s muse, inspired him to create the famous “Bakhchisarai Fountain”. In “Poltava”, “Caucasian prisoner” you can find lines inspired by the image of Natalia. Tatyana Larina also owes some features of her character to […]...
31. Painting by Aivazovsky “Fishermen on the beach” Beginning to paint Aivazovsky’s painting, depicting the sky, or as he called it after his teacher at the Academy of Arts, M. N. Vorobyov – air. Whatever the size of the canvas, Aivazovsky wrote “air” in one session, even if it stretched to 12 hours in a row. It was by such a titanic effort […]...
32. Painting Rzhevskaya “Music” Antonina Leonardovna Rzhevskaya is a remarkable Russian artist who is a member of the “Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions”. Antonina Leonardovna – the second and last female artist, who became an exhibitor of this creative association, however, later she ceased to be his member, because of disagreement with their program. Rzhevskaya was born in a […]...
33. The composition of Vasnetsov’s painting “Ivan Tsarevich on Gray Wolf” VM Vasnetsov is an artist whose work has become one of the tops of Russian art. His best works are in the Tretyakov Gallery. The painting “Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf” was created in 1889 and is written on the plot of one of the most famous fairy tales. Before us, the window to […]...
34. The Painting by Polenov “Christ and the Sinner” The artist believed that the main purpose of his work was to show people that good, forgiveness of the neighbor and light feelings are the main thing that a person should cherish in himself. We see in the picture a famous biblical scene. When Christ saw that the crowd wanted to stone the offending woman […]...
35. Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov – Russian philanthropist In the last decades before Christmas and the beginning of a new era in ancient Rome, lived a man who belonged to the rich and noble estate of the Roman horsemen. He did not hold any official government posts, but was an ardent supporter of Emperor Augustus, who was supported in the struggle for autocracy. […]...
36. Painting by Kramskoy “Moonlight Night” The painting “Moon Night” was written by I. Kramskoy in 1880. Night landscapes are not uncommon in the artist’s work (we recall his “May Night”, “Evening at the Dacha”, “Divine Divination”). And in “Moonlit Night” – one of his most famous paintings – Kramskoy again takes up the solution of a complex coloristic task. He […]...
37. The Painting by Brueghel “The Tower of Babel” “The Tower of Babel” – one of the most famous paintings of the great Dutch artist Peter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569). The canvas was written in 1563 (wood, oil). Currently he is in the Museum of Art History in Vienna. In the art of this painter there is a large number of masterpieces of world […]...
38. Painting Grabar “Goalkeeper” In front of me is a picture of the artist Grigoriev “Goalkeeper”. It shows a football match. Sport is life, movement, emotions, and this is what we see on the canvas. This picture can now be seen in the original in the Tretyakov Gallery. In the foreground in front of us is a boy who […]...
39. The composition of Perov’s painting “Pugachev’s Court” There are several variants of Perov’s painting “Pugachev’s Court” or “Pugachev’s revolt”. In 1879, a version of the picture appeared, where the image of Pugachev appears more significant – in the pseudo-Petra III one feels a man of great will, mind and temperament. Pugachev sits on the porch of the landlord’s house, surrounded by a […]...
40. Painting by Serov “Peter the First” One of the most inspired paintings of Serov, full of dynamics and life, was at one time as little appreciated as his other works, recognized today as the best. She was ordered by Serov for the publishing house Knebel, who produced a series of historical paintings-manuals for schoolchildren. He wrote it during the autumn and […]...