Edgar Degas rodilsya in the July 19, 1834 in Paris, obecpechennoy family aristokraticheskogo proiskhozhdeniya Auguste de Ta and Celestine Myusson . He was the Senior of five children. Degas received a thorough academic training at the School of Fine Arts under the guidance of Lamotte , a pupil of Ingres. A lot of copying old masters in the Louvre, where he met with Manet, and in Naples, where he lived in 1855 - 1859 years. In the mid- 1860s, Degas approaches the future impressionists , visit the...

The dry language of figures inhabit our planet order half a billion species of animals (excluding insects ) , but no statistics do not describe what a bizarre variety, which has laid in their external appearance of nature . Some of them are so amazing , beautiful or , on the contrary , are ugly, they seem a mockery of the human imagination or someone else's cunning trick in the program of computer graphics. However, they all exist, and biologists from time to time share with the world of startling...

Pierre ? (Peter) Troubetzkoy ? (1864-1936) - graphic artist and painter , the elder brother of the sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy . Pierre devoted himself mainly portraiture .
portrait of a reclining Amelie Rives Chanler. Am? lie drew this provocative self-portrait dated August 21 , 1892 , the same day her lover, George Curzon-who would later become viceroy to India-arrived at Castle Hill. Amelie made ​​this provocative self-portrait August 21, 1892 , the day when her lover , George...