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.
Read MoreBartolome Esteban Murillo painted paintings of religious content, as well as genre works, the heroes of which were poor commoners. The artist liked to depict
Read MoreThe Spanish Romantic artist Francisco de Goya is also known for his portraits of aristocrats. The court painter created a gallery of images of the
Read MoreThis canvas by the landscape painter John Constable is an excellent example of the painting of English romanticism, of which the artist is a representative.
Read MoreEnglish painter Thomas Gainsborough is known as a portrait and landscape painter. He often made commissioned portraits of representatives of the aristocracy against the backdrop
Read MoreAlbrecht 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
Read MoreIn the landscapes of the German romanticist Caspar David Friedrich, realistically painted nature is always immeasurably more than just a depiction of this or that
Read MoreJohann Christian Neuber (1736-1808) was born in Neuvernsdorf in the Ore Mountains and moved to Dresden. Neuber became a craftsman and joined the Dresden goldsmiths’
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreCanopic vessels are vessels in which internal organs removed from the body during mummification were stored. They were placed in separate vessels (as a rule,
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