After the wedding, it was time for the wedding night, and Francesca found a complete stranger in the bedroom instead of Paolo. And the most amazing thing is that in Dante's Divine Comedy, Paolo and Francesca's souls ended up in hell.
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A naive weirdo who was laughed at by the whole society and whose paintings were ahead of their time. Primitivist Henri Rousseau
Became a reflection - naive, somewhat ridiculous, constantly criticized and subjected to ridicule from essentially good people. Degas himself knew about the paintings and approached Henri with the words: "I have seen, I saw your, with permission to say, painting, very original".
He was tempted, but he did not give in. An unusual competition among famous artists for the best painting of St. Anthony's temptations.
One of the main temptations was the temptation of sensuality and the need for abstinence, which at 18 is understandably akin to a real feat.
What is the hidden meaning of Dalí's famous painting "The Permanence of Memory" that fascinates all art historians and painting lovers?
And for some reason, the artist decided to depict the current clock. To the work of Dali can be treated differently, but some landscape in the style of realism, probably soon forgotten and dissolve into memory among dozens of similar paintings. It is believed that the current clock is an artistic embodiment of Einstein's theory of relativity.
Neighboring "priestesses of love" and seduced to pose young Vera Mamontova. What was Valentin Serov like in ordinary life?
At the age of 22, Serov, together with the Mamontov brothers, went to Vienna and, impressed by the beauty of St. Stephen's Cathedral, began to draw it on paper, making sketches. Police officers approached them and urged them to go to the station
Stars and naked girls in the unremarkable paintings of Louis Figaro. who became the founder of modern "adult fantasy".
Luis was seriously interested in science, though his parents wanted their son to follow a military path and someday restore their family to its former splendor. His parents were not too happy that their son had become known for his "obscene pictures," but Falero could no longer imagine life without art.
Loved to paint in the nude style. What was the artist Auguste Renoir in ordinary life and his stunning paintings.
Renoir was a very shy guy, and remained so throughout his life. Renoir was not interested in politics at all and was sincerely convinced that “the crowd has no brains”.
Sentenced to 8 years for an unsuccessful cartoon and accused of espionage. Konstantin Rotov, the legend of Krokodil.
His cartoons were favorably distinguished by brevity, topicality, good drawing, the ability to express the essence, without being distracted by unnecessary details. But in June 1940, Rotov's house was searched, and then charged that he worked for German intelligence, and at the same time and denigrated the Soviet system in his cartoons.
The accident that led Makovsky to create the painting “Children Running from a Thunderstorm”.
The girl went for mushrooms with her little brother, but suddenly found the clouds and is about to break out a summer thunderstorm. But the girl was less lucky - she caught a cold, now she is lying at home, sick, she has a fever.
Ai da Ilya Repin, ai da son of a .... How Repin was in ordinary life and his little-known paintings, which will definitely not show in school.
Such energy impressed all the artist's guests, who would have been happy to go to bed, but the irrepressible Repin did not give rest. But Repin was probably happy with her, because she matched his temperament and shared his passion for painting, music and dancing.
The most immodest painting by Vasily Perov, which leaves a lot of room for imagination.
The newly rich decided that they could look down on everyone else and treat them in a boorishly dismissive manner. Perov received the title of Academician of Painting for this painting when he showed it at an exhibition at the Academy of Arts.
Never missed a model and knew all about love. The insatiable Gustav Klimt and his brilliant “The Kiss”.
It was after the trip to Ravenna that the “Golden Period” in Klimt's work began, when he actively used gold. In the painting, the moment of the kiss, not the kiss itself, but its anticipation, is surprisingly well chosen.
An immodest custom that Konstantin Makovsky depicted in his painting "Boyar Wedding Feast in the XVII century"
And how to refuse a conversation with intelligent and educated people in a cozy and rich living room of the artist, a good treat with expensive wine and interesting amusements. This is a kind of "glamorous" excursion into history, where everything ugly is forgotten.
Like a good tragicomedy. Famous pictures in which from scary to funny is only one step.
He was remarkably accurate in combining humor and tragedy, and could joke about things that were not to be joked about at all. In general, this is not a portrait, but an unconcealed mockery, although it is possible that even such an ugly duchess may well have a husband.
The most beautiful eyes and not only them in the paintings of famous artists.
She conquered many with her gentle character, incomparable beauty and natural charm. With her meekness and humility, she resembles the image of the Madonna. But in that picture there are more differences than similarities.
Why were girls in Japan strongly discouraged from looking at John Mille's Ophelia and how was this masterpiece created?
It was as if he had photographed a piece of river scenery with an expensive professional camera. It is precisely this inordinate precision that became one of the principles enunciated by the Pre-Raphaelites.
Why did Serov's portrait of Yusupova criticized, and why did the customer want to cut it? About the artist's most "glamorous" artwork.
The queue for Serov's portraits stretched for several years, as the artist himself approached the artwork with the utmost care. Critics noted that Yusupova's pose was too naive and demeaning - at the time, this was already considered fashionable.
Memorable paintings by Otto Dix that will leave no one indifferent. What is their hidden meaning?
In order not to finally feel unnecessary, he writes "in a desk". It is not difficult to identify which character personifies which sin. However, the main characters are not laziness, but....
Tenderness and pleasure. Half-naked lovely odalisques in the paintings of Henri Matisse
And Matisse decided to look at Oriental women in his own way and in his own style. This allowed him to find his niche and the necessary balance between decorativeness and expressiveness. Matisse does not think too much about the inner feelings of his odalisques, for him they are just an object.
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.
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.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
"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.
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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