Gauguin united a great artist and a great adventurer. Not finding heaven on earth, the artist created on his canvases his own Garden of Eden, born of fantasy...

Goya was not only a great painter, but also an outstanding master of engraving. A strange illness magically revealed the artist’s previously dormant genius. ...

The son of a provincial clerk, Kramskoy became the leader and ideologist of the Wanderers movement. He was glorified by portraits of his contemporaries.

Klimt expressed the spirit of the era of decadence. The sensual atmosphere of his paintings is mesmerizing. The masterpiece “The Kiss” (1907-08) is in detail...

Birds were deceived by Cranach's paintings, mistaking them for living nature. The artist was a friend of Luther and one of the richest residents of Wittenber...

He is the founder of realism in French painting of the 19th century. The images of ordinary workers he created were considered revolutionary by his contempor...

Love for everything Russian is the leitmotif of his work.

La Tour was born into the family of a baker, and died as a painter for the king. He combined in his work the techniques of the Caravaggists with the traditio...

The artist was born in Russia and ended her life in Mexico. Her colleagues were ambivalent about her, believing that she cared too much about the “commercial...

Lentulov was the son of a village priest. After the revolution, the artist tried to “fit” into the framework of socialist realism, but these attempts did not...

In his painting he expressed the soul of Russian nature.

Leighton enjoyed great success at the court of Queen Victoria. The artist’s grandfather treated Russian tsars.