In many respects, Orest Kiprensky holds the title of first in Russian art: the first romantic, the first painter and the first portrait painter of the 19th c...

Perov's later work is usually characterized as a period of searching, in which the artist, as a rule, fails. Meanwhile, now that the entire path of developme...

Memories of the Itinerants. “At the Traveling Exhibitions we learned about life, and in these lessons the most precious, most desirable and bright word alway...

When comparing Serov's first masterpieces - Girl with Peaches or Girl in the Sun - with his later, last works (portrait of Ida Rubinstein or the Rape of Euro...