Poussin Nicolas – “Ordination”
Year of painting: 1640. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: religious painting. Style: classicism. Gallery: private collection.
Polenov – “Golden Autumn”
Landscape “Golden Autumn” by the famous Russian and Soviet painter Vasily Polenov, a classmate of Ilya Repin and teacher Isaac Levitan and Ostroukhov, a member of the French Academy, is not his most famous work, but his elegance and soulfulness make me write a couple of lines about him. This painting was painted by the…
Poussin – “The Rape of the Sabine Women”
According to Roman historians, only men lived in Rome. The neighboring tribes did not want to give their daughters to the ordinary poor. Then one of the founders of Rome – the legendary Romulus, comes up with a cunning plan. He arranges a grandiose celebration and invites the Sabines to it. They accept the invitation…
Poussin – “Flight to Egypt”
Year of painting: 1657. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: religious painting. Style: classicism. Gallery: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France.
Poussin Nicolas – “Arcadian Shepherds”
The Louvre contains the best works of art, delighting visitors with unsurpassed skill. The painting by Nicolas Poussin “Arcadian Shepherds” was closed from prying eyes for 20 years and only after being acquired by the museum (1685) became its adornment. The oil painting draws attention with its idyllic landscape, bright colors, compact composition and philosophical…
Polenov – “Klyazma. Zhukovka”
Year of painting: 1888. Dimensions of the painting: 38 x 46.7 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: realism. Gallery: Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Polenov – “The Children Brought”
Year of painting: 1899. Painting dimensions: 32 x 56 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: religious painting. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Polenov – “Moscow courtyard”
Moscow courtyard. Etude For the first time they sounded in the radiant “Moscow courtyard”. In 1877, in Trubnikovsky Lane (on the Arbat), the artist rented an apartment and made a sketch from the Savior-on-Pesky, visible from the workshop window. After St. Petersburg, Moscow seems to Polenov soulful and alive. It’s fun to work. At nine…
O’Keeffe Georgia – “Sunrise”
Year of painting: 1916. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: no data. Writing technique: no data. Genre: landscape. Style: abstractionism, precisionism. Gallery: no data.
Polenov – “Christ and the Sinner”
The idea of creating a large-scale canvas dedicated to Christian morality came to Vasily Polenov after he saw the work of Alexander Ivanov “The Appearance of Christ to the People.” Having visited the sacred lands of Egypt, Palestine and Syria several times, having completed a large number of sketches and preparatory drawings, ordered a large…