Искусствовед и профессиональный гид по Вене Влада Никифорова расскажет о богатой истории города, которому суждено было стать центром стиля модер...
Что появилось раньше – человек или зеркало? Этим вопросом задается Паола Дмитриевна Волкова в четвертом томе цикла «Мост через бездну». Для великих...
«Обычная история» — один из самых ярких рассказов раннего творчества Марка Ивина. Написанный в 1998 году, он претерпел несколько ре...
Век веку рознь. Век – не эра. Век – не этап. Век – не период. Век – не столетие. Он бывает длинен, бывает и краток, бывает и сокращен. В истории Ро...
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning ‘prophet’. Bo...
From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else. Russian culture developed in contact ...
After staying in Milan for his apprenticeship, Michelangelo da Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592. There he started to paint with both realism and ...
Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Br...
Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a pain...
He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari’s words, “instructed in all such things as children are usually t...
Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the l...
“The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.)
Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many ...
Surrealists appeared in the aftermath of World War I with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and a...
Since the dawn of Christianity, artists have been fascinated and stirred by the figure of Christ. His likeness appears in frescoes on the walls of ...
Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears – religious and historic painting – to become...
From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in...
Творчество великого британского художника Фрэнсиса Бэкона часто называют сложным, непонятным, пугающим. Современный художник, куратор и историк иск...
Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake’s work is made up of several elements – Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and ...
