Being a monk, Lippi still did not consider it necessary to deny himself worldly joys. The artist's life is full of amazing adventures, and his work breathes ...

“He was born a painter and engraver with a brush and a chisel in his hands,” old authors said about Luke of Leiden. Rembrandt reverently collected his engrav...

Having spent almost his entire life in Mantua, the artist retained his love for his native city and signed his works “Andrea Mantegna, Paduan.” He was alread...

“From an early age I thought people were ugly, animals seemed more beautiful to me, more pure,” said Mark. He died at the front in 1916.

Becoming a surrealist artist, he was cursed by his father.

“Fame is in love with him,” contemporaries wrote about Millais. They admired his paintings or called them vulgar. The masterpiece “Ophelia” (1851-52) in deta...

Claude Lorrain was a singer of sunlight. Solemnity lives hand in hand with lyricism.

He was a revolutionary against his will. He “quoted” the old masters with pleasure.

The most interesting are the unofficial portraits by Mengs. His work was loved by Russian emperors.

Matejko had a true gift for historicity. His paintings are full of national-historical pathos.

The Renaissance begins with his frescoes.

Contemporaries called him “the divine Michelangelo.” He worked in sculpture, painting and architecture, setting an example of artistic universalism. He, like...