It was not customary for decent ladies at that time to drink absinthe alone, or even to consume this drink at all. Absinthe can be called a special phenomenon in culture, and its use was praised by Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Rimbaud. And many impressionist painters.

Soon added problems with the spine, accompanied by pain, which Elizabeth and tried to treat with the miracle remedy laudanum. Rossetti grieved, and the painting "Blessed Beatrice" became a kind of tribute.

Brunovsky's works are characterized by excellent detail, so you can look at them for a long time and always find something new, and a magnifying glass will be very useful here.

He was recognized as the best Venetian painter with all the privileges that entailed. The fame of Titian's love affairs spread throughout Venice and husbands were afraid to let their wives go to the artist's studio.

Even powerful patrons and customers, notably Pope Leo X declared, "he is terrible, it is better not to have any dealings with him and to stay away from him"

Picasso's drawing does not resemble children's scribbles at all, but his talent is visible to the naked eye. At the age of 8, Boris first visited the exhibition of the Itinerant artists and firmly decided to become an artist. The German artist Paul Klee even stated that he drew his best works at the age of 3 to 9 years.

Do you think an artist's personal qualities are important, or is it only the artist's work that matters?

But the noble feudal lords did not recognize her as a queen and revolted. Even her tender age - only 16 years old - did not prevent her from being tortured, after which she was blinded and executed. This tragic moment Delaroche depicted in the painting.....

Zandomeneghi focused more on moral issues and willingly portrayed uninhibited girls - keepers, courtesans, or even ordinary street "priestesses of love". He focused on the practice of ballerinas becoming kept women, which was common at the time.

At the age of five, out of sheer boredom, he created his first "work of art" there. Pivovarov's works are a kind of rebuses written in the style of surrealism with elements of book illustration and a good share of absurdity.

He selected on the basis of artistic ability, and accepted the poorest of the poor. He fell in love with the governor's daughter, painted a dozen portraits of her, but that was the end of it. Pan was truly devoted to painting, and more than anyone else.

The statue arrived at the Louvre sealed in several boxes - the largest contained Venus of Milos herself, and the others smaller ones contained her hands, pedestal and fragments. The Louvre management wanted to have in the museum an unqualified masterpiece created by the famous ancient Greek sculptor.

In England at that time, Victorian morality was no less severe than Soviet morality in the 1930s. There was even more naturalism in his paintings - the peasants did not resemble the ancient gods at all.

Miserable goods - rows of canned "Breakfast of a Tourist" and apple juice. Just depicting the surrounding reality as it really was.

The situation with Venus is different - although she is relaxed, she is not exhausted. Botticelli simply replaced the gods with satyrs and added more comedy to the situation. But only history has put everything in its place

He made up for the lack of academic education by talking and arguing, Repin, Kramskoi and Polenov explained to him the basics of painting. His landscapes are in good standing, some of them were acquired by Tretyakov himself.

This is a competently created image, not documentary evidence, and for this he was later accused of wanting to indulge the authorities and called "Stalin's court painter". But Gerasimov had no other choice.

For twenty years, Mucha painted these pictures, so in tune with his Slavic soul. They reflected significant historical events taking place in Bohemia and other Slavic countries.

But it was not a fetish, but a representation of the ideal of beauty, which corresponded to the concepts of the time. Picasso believed that "Rubens wasted his talent for vulgarity. Rubens knew six languages, had impeccable manners.

Grant Wood was not too happy about this popularity and generally tried to talk less about himself and his personal life. He was not a typical farmer, not too fond of small, dreary American towns. There was an unspoken rule of "don't ask, don't tell".