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Kiprensky – “Portrait of A. A. Chelishchev”

The masterpiece among the early portraits of 1808-1809 is the portrait of Alexander Chelishchev. In August 1812, fourteen-year-old Chelishchev was released with the rank of warrant officer from the Corps of Pages into the active army and received his baptism of fire in a fierce battle near Maloyaroslavets, when the city passed from hand to […]

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Monet Claude – “Haystack at Giverny”

Bold experiments with light are the main means of expression used by Claude Monet in his works. The variability of shadows and the play of light has always attracted the artist, who tried to capture and capture this beauty in his paintings. Claude Monet is the author of many landscapes of the same type, but […]