In the second half of the 1860s, Perov creates his best genre works, in which society becomes critisised even more. The painting Troika...

The theme of Christ's temptation had attracted Kramskoi already in the early 1860s. In that period he made the first sketch of the...

What I love about Bronikov’s work is the peace this painting gives the admirer. The soft pink clouds, enlightened by the first rays of...

The Morning in a Pine Forest is a painting by Russian artists Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. The bears were painted by Savitsky,...

The painting “The Apotheosis of War” by the Russian artist Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin is widely known both in Russia and around the...

“The Morning of the Streltsy Execution” is a painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, painted in 1881. It illustrates the public execution...

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, (born Jan. 12 [Jan. 24, New Style], 1848, Krasnoyarsk, central Siberia, Russia—died March 3 [March 19], 1916,...

David is a masterpiece of Renaissancesculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. David is a...

A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an...

Oceanus was a divine figure in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the...

Pendant Portraits of an Old Man and an Old Woman refers to two 1654 oil on canvas pendant portraits by Rembrandt, Portrait of an Old Man...

Ovid describes at length (Met. 3:138-253) how the young prince Actaeon, hunting in the forest, stumbled accidentally upon the grotto...

Avercamp's "Skating Scene" echoes Pieter Bruegel's "Winter Landscape" in many respects. Yet in his painting the didactic message is...

Democratic and national features of Dutch art of the middle of the XVI century are most clearly revealed in the work of Peter Brueghel...

A significant place in the work of Cranach took the image of the Mother of God. The painting “Virgin and Child”, created in the 1920s,...

Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor in bronze of the 5th century BCE. His Greek name was traditionally Latinized Polycletus....

The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. However, there are...

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known best as simply Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of...

Mercury is an important god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is...

In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus are twin brothers, whose story tells the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and...