Его картины навечно вошли в мировой фонд искусства. Тициан побежал туда и буквально из огня успел вынести несколько картин. Тициан проживёт очень долго, будет писать картины, любить женщин, а заодно получит славу великого колориста.

In the Land of the Rising Sun, ideally, it is customary to study throughout your life. You need to have a lot of imagination to paint 100 views of the same Mount Fuji. Perhaps the engraving is the artist’s attempt to show the frailty and vanity of people.

“How could such a huge canvas, worthy of epic subjects, depict a miserable funeral in a small village? Where is the perspective, the composition, why are the characters just standing in a row?”

However, when the portrait was ready, he simply put it aside in a far corner, and told the customer to come back for it in a month. He simply went abroad, leaving his son and wife to fend for themselves.

Так сошлись два неординарных человека — Филиппа IV и великолепный художник Диего Веласкес. С Веласкесом король мог быть откровенным и честным, знал, тот не будет приторно льстить. Он вернулся домой в Мадрид, а умер на руках короля, ставшего его верным другом.

His paintings were always eagerly purchased by art lovers, providing a good income. But few people managed to write like Klimt and develop their own innovative style in painting. But he began to paint with pleasure what he liked, and he liked mainly paintings with naked women.

All this decorativeness, elegance, piquancy rococo was his native element. It is thanks to his paintings that it seems to us that life then was frivolously elegant.

Делакруа писал всегда в очень жарко натопленной художественной мастерской, а шею обматывал шарфом. Любил с глубокомысленным видом сообщать взрослым азбучные истины. Критики были недовольны - как можно было писать обнажённую девушку?!

In Antwerp, painting was considered a dignified occupation, and Rubens worked there. And when van Dyck was 20, rumors began to spread among customers: "Van Dyck paints like Rubens, but charges a lot less"...