Nicholas Roerich, with his work entitled "Leading", shows that important quality that is inherent in wives in the life of husbands. After all, he devoted this picture to his life companion, Elena Ivanovna. If you delve into the biography of the artist, it becomes known that his wife was for him a kind of mentor in life.
The painting was painted in 1966 by the Russian artist Konstantin Vasiliev on his mother's birthday. The author is best known for his style, predisposed to Slavic mythology, ancient Russian epics and images. The artist honed his skills by translating the faces and figures of ancient Russians into canvases, displaying archetypes like men and women with extraordinary accuracy.
Vladimir Makovsky - the son of the famous art critic and founder of the School of Painting and Architecture E.I. Makovsky - from birth was connected with the world of beauty. Nurtured in an atmosphere of creativity, from a young age he chose the path of the artist. Working hard and fruitfully, Vladimir Egorovich devoted his works to the life of a “little man”.
“Latch” is a work of the most talented artist, originally from France and living in Paris in the 18-19th century. J. Fragonard. The author created it during a trip to Italy, as opposed to the equally famous masterpiece “Adoration of the Shepherds”. Both canvases became the property of the eminent customer, the holder of the title of Marquis - Lewis de Veri.
The painting “Portrait of a Young Man” was made by Sandro Botticelli with tempera and oil paints on a tree, tentatively in 1483. Genre is a portrait. The full-length portrait shows a young man with a pleasant, dreamy face, large expressive brown eyes. The direct and open look attracts attention.
1896; canvas, oil; 48x70; Russian Museum. Baba in a cart is far from the most famous painting of the great Russian painter, undeservedly forgotten and ignored. Perhaps the chosen plot and some uniformity of the palette make it not so memorable as compared to other masterpieces by Serov, but it is far from being as simple and unambiguous as it might seem at first glance.