The most famous paintings and the artists who wrote them

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

How many beautiful examples of painting in the world! But there are well-known paintings that are familiar to the vast majority of people. That's about them and will be discussed in our short review. And also about the talented craftsmen who created these perfect masterpieces. Can you already guess which paintings will be discussed?

Famous Renaissance paintings

The Renaissance (Europe, Italy - XIV-XVI centuries) gave humanity a host of brilliant artists. The frantic Michelangelo, the great Leonardo da Vinci, the divine Raphael, the romantic and power-loving Sandro Botticelli - these names are inscribed in golden letters in the history of the world. The names of the paintings of these artists are familiar even to people far from art.

Who has never seen "La Gioconda" - a painting by da Vinci? It is unlikely that such a person will be found. After all, reproductions of this portrait are replicated around the world. The Mona Lisa 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 see the original painting.

The other most famous paintings by Leonardo are "MadonnaBenois" (also called "Madonna with a flower"), "Madonna Litta", a fresco depicting Christ and the apostles - "The Last Supper", a portrait of "Lady with an Ermine".

Remembering Raphael, I immediately want to call the painting "The Sistine Madonna". This Italian painter in his short life (37 years) left behind a rich legacy that influenced many subsequent generations of painting masters. But the artwork in question is one of the most recognizable and popular in the world.

Michelangelo Buonarroti worked in the 16th century, mainly as a sculptor and architect. His most fundamental work is the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Of these grandiose canvases, the most famous is The Creation of Adam.

The famous paintings of Botticelli, the court painter of the Medici, are no less magnificent, and we could talk about them endlessly, but we will only mention those that are really familiar to everyone and everyone. This is, first of all, "The Birth of Venus" - a picture that depicts the golden-haired goddess of love, floating into the world, standing on a shell. The next canvas of the master, which cannot be forgotten, is called "Spring". Even if some of you cannot immediately remember what exactly is depicted there, then it is enough for us to hint that the three graces are the center of the composition, and the memory of most will immediately be refreshed.

Impressionist landscapes

The end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth gave the world a newdirection in painting - impressionism. Today, in museums in many countries, visitors admire the canvases of such artists as Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and others. The Impressionists worked a lot in nature, the landscape plays a very important role in their works and often acts as a separate independent genre.

Claude Monet, for example, was very fond of painting secluded ponds, on the surface of which beautiful water lilies and water lilies flaunt. In this regard, I would like to make a small lyrical digression: in the movie "Titanic" by Cameron, when events reach a climax and the ship goes to the bottom, there is a moment when one of these incomparable works of Monet with lilies disappears forever in the green ocean water. Famous landscape paintings by this artist are in the collections of not only European museums, but also in our Hermitage ("Field with Poppies", "Meadows of Giverny") and the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts ("Haystack", "Rocks in Etretat").

Van Gogh's solar paintings

Hot "Sunflowers", painted in several versions by one of the most beloved artists today, who during his lifetime did not wait for the recognition of his talent (Van Gogh), these are popular and famous paintings all over the world. And not only famous, but also one of the most expensive. Another famous creation of the post-impressionist - "Irises" - also has a fantastic price. Expert art historians assure that today the cost of this canvas is approaching$110 million, and this figure will only increase over time.

Pablo Picasso's canvases

Spanish artist Pablo Picasso was distinguished not only by his talent, but also by his incredible capacity for work, which is why a huge number of his paintings are exhibited in various museums around the world today. And which of them is the most famous, what do you think? We have no doubt that you will give an answer: "Girl on a ball" - a painting related to the "pink period" of Picasso's work. And, of course, you will be right.

Pictures of the Russian genius - Karl Bryullov

Famous Russian paintings - "The Death of Pompeii", "Italian Noon" (Russian Museum, St. Petersburg), "Horsewoman" (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow) and others, painted by our compatriot Karl Bryullov, invariably attract to a crowd of sightseers - lovers of beauty. This remarkable artist painted in an academic manner. It is believed that his work crowns the late Russian romanticism.

People who saw with their own eyes the grandiose work "The Last Day of Pompeii", for a long time remain under the strong impression received from the contemplation of the picture. In it, the artist managed to masterfully show not only the merciless elements of erupting Vesuvius, but also all the 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 651see

Conclusion

Unfortunately, it is impossible to list all the famous pictures of the world in a short article. We have not said anything about the paintings of Rembrandt, Rubens, Gauguin, Dali, Levitan, Repin, Vasnetsov and many, many other brilliant painters. We hope to do so in future articles.