Good = Evil

Creating a fresco "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci for a long time searching for the ideal model. Jesus must embody the Good, and Judas, who had decided to bring him to this meal - is evil.
Leonardo's many times interrupted the work, going to find sitters. One day, listening to the choir, he saw in one of the young singers of the perfect image of Christ, and inviting him to his studio, made him a few sketches and studies.
Three years. "Last Supper"...

Black stones Iki
 
    Kand. History Andrey Zhukov
 
 
The earliest history of humankind, encompassing the period Many thousands of pre-literate history, to this day remains, in fact, terra incognita. Only in textbooks and review papers, where a few pages can be placed throughout this period of world history, he appears as a sufficiently clear and coherent picture. But "paint a picture" is not so difficult. And what this "picture" simply,...

In 2007 in Paris through the efforts of the Museum d'Orsay was issued weighty volume, which
Unfortunately, only now appeared in my hands. This "From Cezanne to
Picasso. Masterpieces gallery Vollara »(De Cézanne à Picasso. Chefs-d'oeuvre
de la galerie Vollard. - Paris, 2007. - 351 p.). The name may introduce
misleading: it is not the album of paintings originating from the gallery A. Vollara
(1866 - 1939). Paintings, of course, in this publication are...

6 to 8 June 2009 gallery LA Shishkin participated in the first exhibition of Russian Art, held in London in the hotel Jumeirah Carlton Tower. Gallery was brought to a single work, which, however, proved to be the most attractive exhibit throughout the exhibition.
In the famous monograph ML Neumann Peter Konchalovsky. Creative career of one of the greatest artists of our time ", Moscow, Soviet Artist, 1967, which published this work is provided this statement Konchalovsky: Flowers - the great...

Ilya Shanin I met by chance, not even suspecting that his
shop is located very close to my dwelling. Just once drew
attention to the strange sign "Salon decorative stone. Usually held
by - little
whether there are names in the workshops monuments. But this time he remembered that until
far is without the stone stands a small bronze sculpture, originating
from the workshop of a sculptor friend, that must finally be mounted, and decided to go....