The central place in the work of the famous Spanish painter Diego Velasquez belongs to the portrait genre. As a court painter to the Spanish

A representative of the realistic school of painting, the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera painted religious paintings and portraits of people from the common people.

The Spanish Romantic artist Francisco de Goya is also known for his portraits of aristocrats. The court painter created a gallery of images of the

This canvas by the landscape painter John Constable is an excellent example of the painting of English romanticism, of which the artist is a representative.

English painter Thomas Gainsborough is known as a portrait and landscape painter. He often made commissioned portraits of representatives of the aristocracy against the backdrop

Albrecht Dürer became the first master of the European North to paint self-portraits. Prior to this, in the medieval minds of people, the personality of

In the landscapes of the German romanticist Caspar David Friedrich, realistically painted nature is always immeasurably more than just a depiction of this or that

A fragment of painting was found in the southern palace of Akhetaton (Tell el-Amarna), one of the residences of the royal family. The subject of

The pectoral adornment was found along with three others on the chest of the mummy of Psusennes I. It has the form of a naos