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The story of one picture: How a cat saved a baby during a flood and made history
For a long time, artists of the historical genre, as a rule, laid down real historical events in the plots of their paintings, which is quite logical. So the tragedy…

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City landscapes of the Belarusian artist whose paintings are illustrated by school textbooks
Minsk dwellers often see a young man with an easel on the streets of his city, writing in various studies in different parts of the capital. This is a famous…

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Romantic paintings with hidden undertones that are not as simple as they seem at first glance.
You can talk about love in different ways - including in languages ​​of different styles of visual art. These languages ​​are understandable to everyone, despite the fact that the personalities…

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Secrets of self-portraits of famous artists

Self-portrait in most cases – a tool of narcissism, an attempt to leave your image in eternity. But if a genius takes over, his image on the canvas can turn into a real masterpiece, which not only perpetuates the look of the master, but also puzzles, surprises, fascinates the viewer. Over the centuries, some of these self portraits have been knocked out of the usual notion of this genre, without losing either their fans or the attention of researchers. Continue reading →

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Why for centuries the extravagant genius of the Renaissance was not recognized in the Motherland: "Another Venetian" Lorenzo Lotto
In a series of great Italian Renaissance artists, a special place is occupied by Lorenzo Lotto. More recently, this painter was in the shadow of his famous contemporaries and countrymen,…

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"Maha dressed" and "Maha nude": How passion flared up around the scandalous paintings of Francisco Goya
Surprisingly, the paintings of the famous Spanish artist, painted at the turn of the enlightened XVIII and XIX century gold, became the causes of scandals until the liberated XX. Despite…

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How did the d’Orsa Museum defeat the Louvre and become the best in the opinion of tourists
Among all the possible museums of the world in all sorts of cultural capitals of the world, the famous TripAdvisor site chose the d'Orsay Museum in Paris this year, which…

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How Chinese artists went around at the Sotheby’s auction of Pablo Picasso
Over the past decades, China has rapidly burst into all spheres of human life. Fine art was no exception. So, in 2011, at the Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, for…

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