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Beneficence and depravity in a painting by Raphael Santi and his stunning Madonnas that not everyone knows about.
Michelangelo was much better than Raphael at depicting muscular and physically fit people. Raphael was impressed by the power, majesty and relaxed poses of the characters in Michelangelo's frescoes.
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A cursed canvas. A mystical painting by Kramskoi, with which popular rumor associated tragic incidents.
But an old lady said: "We should put the painting in a darkened room so the light doesn't bother the mermaids." We did so, and, as it turned out, not in vain.....
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About how it was then and how it is now, funny cartoons that make you think and laugh.
At the time now, a fully grown up boy still dared to accomplish the feat of walking to the nearest school on his own, and yet his answer shows a rare lack of confidence in success.
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Blatant unreliability. What mistakes did the Pre-Raphaelite artists make in their paintings?
The artist Edmund Blair Leighton painted a picture inspired by the beautiful and romantic process of allocade, i.e. knighting. Except that he got the knight's armor a bit mixed up.
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Vicious demonesses and the evil spirit of Santa Claus in Gerald Brom's memorable drawings
The boy was forced to change schools frequently, often did not have time to make friends and was always in the position of a newcomer. Brom's work is quite dark, although interesting. He often writes on behalf of the "bad guy", a negative character, often quite creepy.
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Why are the people in Fernando Botero's paintings so fat? The artist's own answer.
Botero has been married three times, and his current spouse Greek sculptor Sofia Vari can well give a head start to many mannequins. In many interviews he tries to prove that he is not obsessed with overweight women.
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A toilet bowl made of gold and a human skull for 100 million dollars. The most controversial works of contemporary art
The toilet was stolen when it was placed in the toilet of Blenheim Palace. At least the gold cube was left behind as further proof that it is better to invest in tangible assets
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Charming fat women in all their glory in the paintings of famous artists from antiquity to the present day
But gradually the standards changed, and fullness was seen as something morbid, as opposed to a healthy diet and lifestyle. And Mesolithic people valued wide hips and large breasts - the main signs that a woman could give birth to and nurture healthy children.
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Provocative sculpture and hooliganism at auction. Does such contemporary art have the right to exist?
Have concepts changed so much, and do sculptors now show the beautiful and the good through gross anatomy? At some point, "ordinary" art no longer evokes any special feelings and emotions. There is too much monotonous beauty...
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The most sensual and obscene painting of the Renaissance. We tell you about its hidden meanings
Francis I himself was a great lover of women and lovemaking. One wife and a few pretty minions were not enough for him. If you look closely, you can see that a pink thorn has pierced his heel, but he doesn't notice it at all.
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"French Aivazovsky" Éugene Boudin, whose paintings are much more than meets the eye
Boudin favored work on the plein air: "two strokes of the brush in nature are more important than two days spent in a stuffy studio. However, Boudin painted people as God would have it - for him it was purely technical work.
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Five of the most immodest and attractive heroines of Soviet and Disney cartoons, who became characters of boys' dreams.
The princess flaunted in semi-transparent pants and a frivolous top, revealing her belly. Even blushed charmingly, demonstrating how a girl should react to not too modest compliments and proposals.
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