Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, Italy; 31 December 1842 – Paris, France; 11 July 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.

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Edgar Degas born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas; (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict da... Полное описание

Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin ( 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that were distin... Полное описание

Life and works of Raffaello 

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the... Полное описание

A book of Large Contemporary Arts - from the seventies to today.

Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refi... Полное описание

Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello, in Umbria in 1915. He earned a medical degree from the University of Perugia specializing in tropical medicine. On 12 October 1940, two days after Italy entered World War II, Burri was called up as a medic and... Полное описание

Sacred and Profane Love (Italian: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano, also called Venus and the Bride) is an oil painting by Titian, painted circa 1514. The painting is presumed to have been commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of ... Полное описание

Почти 100 страничная книга-альбом — первое иллюстрированное издание на русском языке, посвященное уникальной коллекции акварелей японского художника Бёзана Хирасавы (1822–1876) из собрания Омского областного музея изобразительных искусств имени М. А. Врубеля. Сюже... Полное описание

Русский художник, мастер русской исторической картины, который соединил традиции исторического романтизма с живописным новаторством. Картины Сурикова поразительно гармоничны в цветовом отношении. Художник применял в своих работах различные методы многокр... Полное описание

Русский живописец, имя которого известно не только в нашей стране, но и за ее пределами. Его картины «Тройка», «Проводы покойника», «Охотники  на привале», «Рыболов» и многие другие известны каждому чуть ли не с раннего детства.

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Александр Бенуа — русский художник, с особенной любовью изучавший быт и искусство Франции и России XVIII века и написавший целый ряд картин из этой эпохи. Бенуа —это живописец, сценограф и иллюстратор, историк искусства и художественный критик. В данной ... Полное описание

Подобно своему учителю Левитану, В. И. Соколов элегичен, какая-то тихая грусть, левитановское настроение чувствуются во многих его работах. Видна громадная любовь к старине, большой вкус в выборе мотивов, художественное чутье, напряженное любование натурой, тонкая ... Полное описание

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development... Полное описание

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photogra... Полное описание

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, p... Полное описание

Графика, живопись, инсталляции.

Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art, although not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pa... Полное описание

Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – 12 October 1492) was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is c... Полное описание

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development... Полное описание

Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Weste... Полное описание

Artista fra i più noti della Sardegna, autore di cicli pittorici in molti dei più importanti edifici pubblici dell'Isola, Filippo Figari ha svolto un ruolo di primo piano nel panorama culturale del Novecento. Agli oli di piccole dimensioni - ritratti, nature morte ... Полное описание

·         Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or "master prints") established his reputation an... Полное описание

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes... Полное описание