BAROQUEWillem van Aelst (1626-1683) @ - the court artist of the Medici court artist for the aristocrats. Pisal floral and fruit still lifes and hunting still lifes on the topic. Also wrote still life with Antiques of the Renaissance. Very often in his compositions, the artist used luxury blue velvet, lapis lazuli pigment, imported from China, which increased the value of the paintings, and the blue color looked elegant in still lifes.

Василий Иванович Суриков родился в 1848 году в Красноярске. Стремление к обучению живописи заставило его сначала переехать в Санкт-Петербург, где в 1869-1875 он обучался в Петербургской Академии Художеств у знаменитого педагога Чистякова, который уже в те годы говорил о Сурикове,...

WATERCOLOR, ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTUREa Series of watercolors of Gatchina Palace is a special value, because the Palace was completely burned by the retreating Germans during the great Patriotic war. Paintings were used by the specialists for the restoration of the Palace.paintings of interiors, so-called perspective views depicting the splendor of palaces, enjoyed a great success in the nineteenth century. The audience could see and admire not only the Hermitage, but also distributed postcards and...

Benjamin N. Elk — honored artist of Russia. 1950-м graduated from the Moscow secondary art school in 1956-м — graphic faculty of the Moscow state art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. Since 1952, working as a painter-иллюстратора in publishing" Детская literature"," Малыш"," Советская Russia"," Молодая guard" and others. for many years illustrated the works of A. S. Pushkin, M. Y. Lermontov, N. And.Nekrasov, V. Y. Dragoons, etc. All artist illustrated...

ACADEMIC PAINTINGAlexei Ivanovich Korzukhin born on Uktusskaya factory (now Yekaterinburg) on 11 March 1835 in the family of serfs promyvalschika gold.
Artistic ability of the painter manifested itself at a young age.
Already In the 1840-е years he wrote the icons for the local Church of the Transfiguration and portraits of family members.