How many wonderful examples of painting in the world!But there are famous paintings, familiar to the absolute majority of people. Here about them also the speech in our small review will go. And also about the talented craftsmen who created these perfect masterpieces. You already guess what kind of paintings will talk?
The Renaissance (Europe, Italy - XIV-XVI centuries.) gave humanity a whole host of brilliant artists. Furious Michelangelo, the great Leonardo da Vinci, the divine Raphael, romantic and caressed by the power of Sandro Botticelli - these names are written in golden letters in the history of the world. The names of the paintings by these artists are familiar even to people far from art.
Who has never seen "Gioconda" - a pictureowned by brush da Vinci? It is unlikely that such a person is found. After all, the reproductions of this portrait are replicated around the world. Mona Lisa's smile can be found anywhere: in magazines, on the Internet, in advertising. And the lucky ones who had the good fortune to visit the Louvre Museum, could contemplate the original canvas.
Other most famous paintings by Leonardo are"Madonna Benoit" (it is also called "Madonna with a flower"), "Madonna Litta", a fresco depicting Christ and the apostles - "The Last Supper", portrait "Lady with an ermine".
Remembering Raphael, I immediately want to callpainting "Sistine Madonna". This Italian painter for his short life (37 years) left behind a rich heritage that influenced many subsequent generations of masters of painting. But the mentioned work of fine art is one of the most recognizable and popular in the world.
Michelangelo Buonarroti worked in the 16th century, inmainly as a sculptor and architect. His most fundamental work is the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Of these grand canvases, the most famous is the Creation of Adam.
Famous paintings by Botticelli, the courtartist Medici, no less magnificent, and about them we could talk endlessly, but mention only those who are really familiar to everyone. This is, first of all, the "Birth of Venus" - the picture, which depicts the golden-haired goddess of love, floating in the world, standing on the sink. The next canvas of the master, which cannot be forgotten, is called "Spring". Even if one of you cannot immediately remember what is depicted there, it is enough for us to hint that the center of the composition are three graces, and the majority of memory will immediately refresh itself.
The end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentiethgave the world a new direction in painting - impressionism. Today, in museums in many countries, visitors admire the paintings of such artists as Manet Edouard, Degas Edgar, Claude Monet, Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, etc. The Impressionists worked a lot in nature, landscape plays a very important role in their works and often acts as a separate independent genre.
Claude Monet, for example, loved to writesecluded ponds, on the surface of which adorn the beautiful water lilies and water lilies. In this regard, I want to make a small lyrical digression: in Cameron’s Titanic, when events reach a culmination moment and the ship goes to the bottom, there is a moment when one of these unmatched Monet’s lilies never disappears in the green ocean water. Famous paintings-landscapes of this artist are in the collections of not only European museums, but also in our Hermitage (The Field with Poppies, The Meadows of Giverny) and the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts (The Haystack, The Rocks in Etretat).
Hot "Sunflowers" written in severalVariants of one of the most beloved artists nowadays, who in life never received the recognition of his talent (Van Gogh), are popular and famous paintings all over the world. And not only famous, but also one of the most expensive. Another famous post-impressionist creation - "Irises" - also has a fantastic price. Art critics and experts assure that today the cost of this canvas is close to 110 million dollars, and this figure will only increase with time.
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso was not distinguishedonly talent, but also an incredible performance, so in many museums of the world today exhibited a great many of his paintings. And which one is the most famous, do you think? We have no doubt that you will give the answer: “The girl on the ball” is a canvas belonging to the “pink period” of Picasso's work. And, of course, you will be right.
Famous Russian paintings - "The Death of Pompeii",The Italian Noon (Russian Museum, St. Petersburg), The Horsewoman (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) and others, owned by our compatriot Karl Bryullov, invariably attract crowds of tourists who love the beautiful. This wonderful artist wrote in an academic manner. It is believed that his work is crowned with late Russian romanticism.
People who saw firsthand grandthe work "The Last Day of Pompeii" has long been under the strong impression received from the contemplation of the picture. In it, the artist managed to masterfully show not only the merciless element of the erupting Vesuvius, but also the entire horror of the inhabitants of the ancient city from a premonition of imminent death. Work on the canvas lasted for six years. The huge size of the painting is also impressive - 465 by 651 cm.
Unfortunately, to list in a short article allfamous pictures of the world is impossible. We did not say anything about the paintings of Rembrandt, Rubens, Gauguin, Dali, Levitan, Repin, Vasnetsov and many, many other brilliant painters. We hope to do this in the following articles.
