Category: Art

Kramskoy’s painting Herodias (1884-1886) completes Kramskoy’s biblical trilogy. Like Laughter, the painting remained unfinished. Nevertheless, her pictorial qualities were highly appreciated by Repin, who advised Tretyakov to purchase Herodias from Kramskoy’s posthumous exhibition. The artist turned to one of the most dramatic stories in biblical history. But at the same time he chose not the […]

The portrait of Mina Moiseyev is included in a number of paintings in which Kramskoy depicted folk types. In the realistic tradition of the 19th century, it was customary to typify folk portraits. That is, each individual character represented a certain type of people. A whole encyclopedia of types of Russian life was presented by […]

Year of painting: 1811. Dimensions of the painting: 24.8 x 29.8 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: romanticism. Gallery: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

Year of painting: 1830. Dimensions of the painting: 64 x 51 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: romanticism. Gallery: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Year of painting: 1896. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: self-portrait. Style: impressionism. Gallery: no data.

Claude Monet, the brightest representative of impressionism, painted this picture in 1866. It depicts women walking in the garden, resting under a tree. It can be seen that the garden is very well-groomed – beautifully trimmed bushes, a carefully cleaned path. Silence, tranquility of nature and a summer garden flow from the picture to the […]