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Art is almost as old as humanity itself, and in all centuries of our existence, countless unique works were created.

Probably it would be too boldly to draw up a list of the most prominent masterpieces, because the criteria for evaluating creativity are too subjective. That is why in our ranking, paintings and sculptures are collected, which are certainly the most recognizable in the world, which does not mean that they are something better than other ingenious works.
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25. Batters, author Paul Cézanne (Paul Cézanne)

This picture is considered a real masterpiece of contemporary art. "Buckles" - one of the most famous works of the Cezanne field. For the first time, the work was submitted to the general public at the exhibition in 1906. Oil painting Cezanne paved the path for the artists of the future, allowing them to move away from traditional templates, and raised the bridge between postpressionism and the art of the XX century.

24. Discobol, author Miron (Miron)

"Discobol" - the legendary Greek statue performed by the famous Greek sculptor Miron from Elevfer (Eleutherae) in the period from about 460 to 450 BC. e. The work of a lot was admired by the Romans, and they even made several copies of this sculpture before her original disappeared. Subsequently, the "discobol" became a symbol of the Olympic Games.

23. Apollo and Daphne, author of Bernini (Bernini)

"Apollo and Daphne" is a natural magnitude sculpture created by the Italian artist Giana Lorenzo Bernini (Gian Lorenzo Bernini) in about 1622-1625. The masterpiece depicts a semi-naked woman trying to escape from his pursuer. Sculpture clearly demonstrates the high mastery of his Creator, recreated the culmination of the famous Ovid history (OVID) about Daphne and Feba (Daphna, PhoeBus).

22. Night Watch by Rembrandt

The masterpiece of the world-recognized Danish artist Rembrandt, "Night Watch" is one of the most famous paintings by the XVII century. The work was completed in 1642, and on the order on it was captured by the group portrait of the rifle company Captain France Banning Coca and Lieutenant Villem Van Rytenburga (Frans Banning Cocq, Willem Van Ruytenburgh). Today the picture decorates the exhibition of the Rijksmuseum Museum in Amsterdam.

21. Beating innocent, author Rubens

"The beating of innocent" is a picture telling about the terrible order of the Jewish Tsar Herod, on the command of which all infants of Bethlehem and its surroundings were killed by age up to 2 years old. Tyrant believed in the prediction that the day comes when the king of Israel will deal with him from the throne, and hoped that his future competitor would be among the dead children. The representative of Flemish Baroque, Rubens wrote two versions of the famous biblical history with a difference of 25 years. The first version of the picture is now in front of you, and it was written in the period from 1611 to 1612.

20. Campbell - Low Soup with beef, author Warhol (Warhol)

Warhol written by the American artist in 1962, the picture "Campbell - onion soup with beef" is one of the most famous examples of contemporary art. In his work, Warhol masterfully demonstrated the monograph of the advertising industry, reproducing many copies of the same product on his gigantic canvas. Warhol also told that he ate these soups every day for 20 years. Perhaps therefore the bank of the onion soup and became the object of his famous work.

19. Starry night, author Van Gogh

Oil painting "Starry Night" belongs to the brush of the Danish postmiprecionist Vincent Van Gogh, which completed this legendary work in 1889. The artist inspired on writing a picture, looking at the night sky through the window of his room in the hospital Saint-Paul, Saint-Remy city, South France (Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Remy). It was there that the famous Creator at one time was looking for a rest from the emotional suffering pursuing him until the end of the days.

18. Shawn Cave Figures

Pictures found in the south of France in the seam cave (Chauvet) are one of the most famous and better than all preserved prehistoric masterpieces of world art. The age of these works is approximately 30,000 - 33,000 years. On the walls of the cave masters, hundreds of prehistoric animals are depicted, including bears, mammoths, cave lions, Panther and Gien.

17. Kiss, author Rodin (Rodin)

"Kiss" is a marble statue created by the famous French sculptor with an Auguste Rodin in 1889. At the plot of the masterpiece, the author was inspired by the sad story of Paolo and Frances, the characters from the legendary work of Dante Aligiery "Divine Comedy" (Paolo, Francesca, Dante Alighieri). Beloved were killed by her husband Ferni, suddenly made young people when they were fascinated by each other the guy and the girl exchanged their first kisses.

16. Pissing boy, authorship is unknown

Mannecken Piss or Pissing Boy is a small bronze sculpture that has become a real attraction of the fountain in the center of Brussels. The initial authorship of the work is unknown, but in 1619 it was finalized by the Belgian sculptor Jerome Duquenoy (Jerome Duquesnoy). The business card of the city, Mannequen-Pure was allegedly established in memory of the events of the Grimbergen War, during which a pissing baby for one version was pushed into a soldier, and on the other, she extended enemy ammunition, threatening the destruction of a whole city. For holidays, the sculpture is dressed in thematic suits.

15. Constancy of memory, author Salvador Dali

Written in 1931 by the famous Spanish artist Salvador Dali, the picture "Constancy of Memory" is one of the most recognizable masterpieces of surrealistic art in the history of painting. At work depicts a gloomy sandy shore, covered with melting hours. On such an unusual plot was given inspired the theory of relativity of Albert Einstein.

14. Pieta or mourning Christ, the author of Michelangelo

"Pieta" - the famous sculpture of the Renaissance era, created by the Florentine Creator Michelangelo in the period from 1498 to 1500. The work describes the biblical scene - Maria holds the body from the Cross of Jesus on his hands. Now the sculpture is in the Cathedral of St. Peter in the Vatican. "Pieta" is the only job of Michelangelo, which he signed.

13. Water lilies, author Claude Monet (Claude Monet)

"Water lilies" is a whole series of about 250 paintings, written by oil, and the authorship of which belongs to the world-famous French impressionist Claude Monet. The collection of these works is recognized as one of the most outstanding achievements of the art of the early XX century. If you arrange all the pictures together, it creates the illusion of an endless landscape filled with water lilies, trees and water-reflected clouds.

12. Creek, author Edward Munch (Edvard Munch)

"Creek" is a cult masterpiece of the Norwegian expressionist Edward Minka. He wrote 4 different versions of this plot from 1893 to 1910. The famous artist's work was inspired by the real experiences of the author connected with the walk in nature, during which the Mukka left his companions (they are also depicted in the picture in the background).

11. MOAI, authorship is unknown

MOAI statues are massive stone monoliths found on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, West Polynesia. The sculptures are also known as the head of Easter Island, but in fact, everyone has bodies hidden underground. Statues of the MOAI are dating about 1400 - 1650 years and supposedly disassembled from the stone by the Aboriginal, who have ever been on the island of Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui, the local name of Easter Island). In total, about 1000 such giganic antiquity masterpieces were found in the area. The mystery of their movement on the island is still unemployed, and the most severe figure weighs about 82 tons.

10. Thinker, author Roden

"Thinker" is the most famous work of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The author finished his masterpiece in 1880 and originally called the poet's sculpture. The statue was part of the composition called the "Gate of hell" and personified Dante Aligiery himself, the author of the famous "Divine Comedy". According to the initial idea of \u200b\u200bRolan Aligiery leans over the circles of hell, reflecting on his work. Subsequently, the sculptor rethought the character and made a universal image of the creator from it.

9. Gernik, author Pablo Picasso

Oil painting with a size of a whole fresco, "Gernika" is one of the most famous works of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The black and white picture is the Picasso Reaction on the Nazi bombardment of the Basque town of Gernik during the Civil War in Spain. The masterpiece demonstrates all the tragic, the horrors of war and the suffering of all innocent citizens in the face of just a few characters.

8. Last Supper, author Leonardo da Vinci

You can admire this picture today during a visit to the Dominican Monastery of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan. Legendary painting Leonardo da Vinci, "Last Supper" - one of the most famous masterpieces in the world. The artist worked on this fresco from 1494 to 1498, and depicted on it a well-known biblical scene of the last dinner of Jesus Christ, surrounded by his disciples, which is narrated in detail in the Gospel of John.

7. Statue of Liberty, Authors Eiffel, Bartholdi (Eiffel, Bartholdi)

The cult sculpture is located on the island of freedom in New York, and once she was a gift in friendship between the people of France and the United States. Today, the statue of freedom is considered an international symbol of freedom and democracy. The author of the composition was French sculptor Bartholdi, and designed and built her architect Gustav Eiffel. The gift was presented on October 28, 1886.

6. Hermes with the infant Dionysis or Hermes Olympic, the author Praxitel (Praxiteles)

"Hermes with a baby Dionysis" is an ancient Greek sculpture, found during the 1877 excavations in the midst of the ruins of the temple of the goddess Gera in Greece. Hermes' right hand is lost, but the archaeologists believe that in the plot, the God of commerce and athletes kept in it a grape vine, showing her baby to Dionysus, God of wine, orgies and religious ecstasy.

5. Creation of Adam, the author of Michelangelo

"Creation of Adam" is one of the most famous Fresco Michelangelo. It was created in the period from 1508 to 1512 and is considered the most popular composition of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the cult Catholic center located in the Vatican. The painting illustrates the moment of the biblical creation of the first person in the history described in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament.

4. Venus Milos, or Aphrodite from Milos Island

Venus Miloskaya was born about 130 and 100 years before our era and is one of the most famous ancient Greek sculptures. The marble statue was discovered in 1820 on the island of Milos (Milo), which is part of the Cyclades Archipelago archipelago in the Aegean Sea. The personality of the heroine is still definitely not established, but the researchers suggest that the author of the masterpiece carved from the stone from Aphrodit, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, which was often portrayed precisely semi-native. Although there is a version that the statue is blinded in the image of the marine goddess Amphitrite (AMPHITRITE), which was particularly read on the island, where the artifact was found.

3. Birth of Venus, author Sandro Botticelli (Sandro Botticelli)

"Birth of Venus" - the work of the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, written in the interval between 1482 and 1485, and it is considered one of the most famous and valuable masterpieces of art in the world. The picture illustrates the scene from the famous Metamorphosis Ovid's poem, in which the goddess Venus first goes ashore from the marine foam. The work is at the exhibition in the Uffizi Gallery (Uffizi) in Florence.

2. David, the author of Michelangelo

The legendary sculpture of the Renaissance was created in the interval between 1501 and 1504 by the ingenious Creator of Michelangelo. To date, David is considered the most famous statue in the world. This delightful masterpiece is a biblical hero David captured in stone. The artists and sculptors of the past traditionally depicted David during the battle, the winner of the Terrible Goliath, a militant husband and hero, but Michelangelo chose the image of the charming young man who had not yet known the art of war and murder for his work.

1. Mona Lisa, author Leonardo da Vinci

Perhaps some of the work from this list were unknown to you, but by "Mona Lisa" Leonardo da Vinci know exactly everything. This is the most famous, the most discussed, the most memorable and most visited picture in the world. The brilliant master wrote it in 1503-1506, and posed for Canvas Lisa Gerardini, the wife of Silk Francesco, Francesco Del Giocondo, Francesco Del Giocondo. The mona Lisa famous for his mysterious facial expression is the pride of the Louvre, the oldest and richest museum of France and the world.

Art has been considered one of the most valuable treasures of human culture for several centuries. Pictures of famous artists become a state treasure, followed by frequent thousands of specialists, and they cost hundreds of millions of dollars. In our country, art appreciate significantly less, but each, perhaps, are familiar the most famous paintings of Russian artists. It is about them that any educated person knows.

The phenomenon of Christ peopleAlexander Ivanov

"The phenomenon of Christ to the people" Decently reveals the top of the most famous paintings by Russian artists. Russian artist Alexander Ivanov became famous for the painting "The phenomenon of Christ to the people", which has drawn as many as twenty years. The sizes of the paintings are affected, as well as its detail. The author was inspired, of course, plots from the Bible, and she became far from the first work of the artist on religious topics - Ivanov knew that everyone liked in the first picture and embodied once again - for the last time. The picture was called contemporaries not just a stunning, and the most important event in their lives. Ironia, Ivanov himself died on the same day, and the king bought a picture immediately after the author's death.

Vasily Pukirev

One of the most famous paintings by Russian artists is considered an incredibly deep in meaning of the canvas Vasily Pukireva. Pukirev - not a remarkable rural resident who became famous for only one picture - all other works of the author remained forgotten. Why exactly "unequal marriage"? The picture describes the plot from the life of Pukireva himself - it is even depicted on the painting itself. Young Pukiree stands in the background with arms crossed, unable to do anything, because his bride is married to the old general. Kostomarov himself, having seen the canvas, took a young girl in his wife.

The Rooks Have Arrived Alexey Savrasov

"The Rooks Have Arrived" - The most famous picture of the Russian artist Alexei Savrasova. The popularity of the picture received even during his first exhibition, where it was assessed by its realism and sense. "There are such landscapes only in the" Gracches "," said the picture of Savrasov. Interestingly, but the church, which is depicted in the background, exists and stands in the same form to this day. In the same village, the famous susanin committed his feat.

Privala huntersVasily Perov

Author painting "Prival Hunters" Is the famous author of Vasily Grigorievich Perov. Now everyone knows this one of the most famous paintings by Russian artists, and in the XIX century many responded as unsuccessful. There were those who admired the work of Perov. First of all, the great classic Dostoevsky admired the work. Some criticized the picture due to inaccuracy, after all, the feathers painted hunters from their friends, who was unfamiliar to this type of occupation.

Three heroes Victor Vasnetsov

Victor Vasnetsov created one of the most famous paintings among Russian authors - "Three Hearters". Vasnetsov said that he was inspired by dubbed oaks - he was amazed by their power, and herself a little later, he just appeared in a dream. The picture shows the famous characters of Russian folk fairy tales. In the very center of Ilya Muromets, in the hand of which a spear, on the left - Dobrynya Nikitich, removing the sword out of the sheath, and on the right - Alyasha Popovich with a bow and arrows. It is known that Alesha painted the artist with the son of Mamontov, in whose estate and hung a picture. And the rest of the warriors are similar to the members of the Vasnetsov family of the family.

Girl with peachesValentin Serov

Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, unlike previous authors, after writing a picture "Girl with peaches", became one of the most significant artists in the Empire. The picture was so struck by the public and even the royal family that she turned to the author with the order for several more paintings, obliged to decorate the tsarist palaces. "Girl with peaches" is deserved in the top of the most famous paintings by Russian artists thanks to the joy that the girl radiates. Critics are called the "alive" picture. But imagine how it was a girl who had to pose for Serov, and he is not the only one who embodied this young person on his canvases.

Barge Haulers on the VolgaIlya Efimovich

Ilya Efimovich - a leaving from Ukraine, in childhood I never saw large ships, burlacs and especially Volga. For the first time, Efimovich saw Burlakov on the Neva, where he had a plot for the future masterpiece. Now "Barge Haulers on the Volga" One of the most indicative paintings by Russian artists, which is deserved in Top-10. The picture was not once described the great literary figures, including Dostoevsky himself. To write a picture "Burlaki on the Volga" the author required only 200 rubles for the journey. It was then sold in just 3000 rubles to Vladimir Alexandrovich - the great Russian prince. Now the picture is the legacy of Russian culture and it is impossible to evaluate its cost.

Fear of MorozovVasily Surikov

"Boar Morozova" Russian author Vasily Surikova is one of the most important exhibits of the Tretyakov Gallery and part-time, one of the most famous paintings by Russian artists. The picture has large sizes, and visitors are amazed how well the life is detailed to such a ratherone canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery acquired a picture of only 25 thousand rubles - money, of course, large for the XIX century, but now its cost is impossible to overestimate. Interestingly, buying a picture was a risk for the gallery, because most did not perceive the canvas.

Stranger Ivan Kramskaya

The second most famous picture of Russian artists is rightfully mysterious "Stranger"Ivan Kramsky. A young woman is depicted on a small canvas, which is dressed in the expensive and most fashionable clothes of the end of the XIX century. Someone claims that Anna Karenina is depicted in the picture, and some do generally believe that the "stranger" brings a lot of misfortune to everyone who will look into her eyes. "Unknown" is the most famous picture of all the works of Kramsky, and the world still does not know who the artist painted the picture. The author himself did not mention anything.

Morning in Pine BorIvan Shishkin

"Morning in Pine Bor."Ivan Shishkin is an artist who else in the Academy replied that he would be a landscape system, painted the famous painting "Morning in Pine Bor". Even small children are known about the canvas, however, they call it "bear", as they are depicted on chocolate candies with the name of the same name. Among the Russian artists, the painting "Morning in Pine Bor" Shishkin is the most recognizable and often criticized in a lack of realism. The most attachment objects, why there are too three cubs, because the Medveditsy rarely has such a heavenly. The popularity of the painting has gained a fabulously beautiful forest landscape with the addition of plot animalism, that is, a bear family.

The most famous and significant paintings of the world painting for your inspiration.

Millions of people admire the immortal paintings of great artists. Art, classic and modern, it is one of the most important sources of inspiration, taste and cultural education of any person, and creative and suppressed.

The world-famous pictures are certainly more than 33. There are several hundreds of hundreds, and they all would not fit in one review. Therefore, for convenience of viewing, we selected several, most significant for world culture and often copied. Each work is accompanied by an interesting fact, an explanation of the artistic meaning or history of its creation.

Rafael "Sicstinskaya Madonna" 1512

Stored in the gallery of old masters in Dresden.

The paintings have a little secret: the rear background, published the apparent clouds, with careful examination turns out to be heads of angels. And the two angels depicted in the picture below became the motive of numerous postcards and posters.

Rembrandt "Night Watch" 1642

Stored in the State Museum in Amsterdam.

The true name of the painting of Rembrandt "Speech by rifle company Captain France Bannang Coca and Lieutenant Villem Van Rateitbürga." I found a picture of art historians in the 19th century it seemed that the figures protrude on a dark background, and it was called "Night Watch". Later, it was found that a dark picture makes the cootter layer, and the action actually happens during the day. However, in the treasury of world art, the picture has already entered the name "Night Watch".

Leonardo da Vinci "Last Supper" 1495-1498

Located in the monastery of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan.

For a more than 500-year-old history of the existence of the work of the fresco, more than once was destruction: through the painting was done, and then laid the doorway, a meadow monastery, where the image is located, used as a weapon warehouse, prison, subjected to bombing. The famous fresco restored at least five times, and the last restoration took 21 years. Today, to see the work of art, visitors must order tickets in advance and can spend in the meadow only 15 minutes.

Salvador Dali "Constancy of Memory" 1931

According to the author himself, the picture was written as a result of associations arising from Dali at the form of a melted cheese. Returning out of the cinema, where she went that evening, Gala completely predicted that no one had seen the "constancy of memory", he would not forget him.

Peter Bruegel Senior "Babylonian Tower" 1563

Stored in the Museum of Art History in Vienna.

According to Bruegel in the failure, comprehended by the construction of the Babylonian tower, they did not suddenly arise according to the biblical plot of linguistic barriers, but mistakes made in the construction process. At first glance, a huge structure seems strong enough, but at the closest consideration it is clear that all the tiers are laid unevenly, the lower floors are either unfinished, or they are already crumbling, the building itself is rapped towards the city, and the prospects for the entire project are very sad.

Casimir Malevich "Black Square" 1915

According to the artist, he wrote a picture for several months. Subsequently, Malevich performed several copies of the Black Square (according to some data, seven). According to one of the versions, the artist could not finish the work on the picture at the right time, so he had to smear the work of black paint. Subsequently, after the admission of the public, Malevich wrote new "black squares" already on clean canvas. Malevich was also written paintings "Red Square" (in two copies) and one "white square".

Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin "Bathing of the Red Kony" 1912

Located in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Written in 1912, the picture was invented. Red horse acts as the fate of Russia or Russia itself, which is unable to keep the fragile and young sedox. Thus, the artist symbolically predicted his picture "Red" the fate of Russia of the XX century.

Peter Paul Rubens "Abduction of the Daughters of Levkippa" 1617-1618

Stored in the old Pinakotek in Munich.

The painting "Abduction of the Daughters of Levkippa" is considered an impersonation of courageous passion and physical beauty. Strong, muscular hands of young men pick up young naked women to put them on her horses. The sons of Zeus and the Ice steal the brides of their cousins.

Paul Gogen "Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?" 1898.

Stored in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

At the direction of the Mogen itself, the picture should be read right to left - the three main groups of figures illustrate the questions set in the title. Three women with a child represent the beginning of life; The average group symbolizes the daily existence of maturity; In the final group, according to the artist, "the old woman approaching death seems to be reconciled and preparing his reflections," her legs "a strange white bird ... represents the uselessness of words."

Eugene Delacroix "Freedom, Leading People" 1830

Stored in the Louvre in Paris

Delacroix created a picture based on the July 1830 revolution in France. In a letter to Brother on October 12, 1830, Delacroix writes: "If I did not fight for my homeland, then I will at least write for her." The naked breast of women, the leading people symbolizes the dedication of the French people of the time that with the "bare breasts" went to the enemy.

Claude Monet "Impression. Ascending Sun" 1872

Marmottan is kept in Paris Museum.

The name of the work of "Impression, Soleil Levant" with the light hand of the journalist L. Lerua became the name of the artistic direction "Impressionism". The picture is written from nature in the old Avantport of Gold in France.

Jan Vermeer "Girl with a pearl serving" 1665

Stored in the Gallery Mauritzhais in the Hague.

One of the most famous paintings of the Netherlands artist Jan Vermeer is often called the Northern or Dutch Mona Liza. It is very little known about the picture: it is not dated, the name of the depicted girl is not known. In 2003, the artistic film "Girl with a pearl serving" was removed on the Trecy Sergey, in which the history of the canvas in the context of the biography and the Vermeer's family life was hypothetically restored.

Ivan Aivazovsky "Ninth Shaft" 1850

Stored in St. Petersburg in the State Russian Museum.

Ivan Aivazovsky is the world famous Russian marinist artist, who devoted his life to the image of the sea. They created about six thousand works, each of which was recognized during the life of the artist. The picture "The Ninth Val" is included in the book "100 Great Patterns".

Andrei Rublev "Trinity" 1425-1427

The icon of the Holy Trinity, written by Andrei Rublev in the XV century, is one of the most famous Russian icons. Icon is a vertical format board. The kings (Ivan Grozny, Boris Godunov, Mikhail Fedorovich) "folded" icon with gold, silver and precious stones. Today, the salary is kept in the Sergiev Posad State Museum-Reserve.

Mikhail Vrubel "Demon Sitting" 1890

Stored in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

The plot of the paintings is inspired by the poem Lermontov "Demon". The demon is the image of the power of the human spirit, inner struggle, doubt. Tragically chanting his hands, the demon sits with sad, directed in the distance in huge eyes, surrounded by unprecedented colors.

William Blake "Great Architect" 1794

Stored in the British Museum in London.

The name of the painting "The Ancient of Days" is literally translated from English as "Old Days." This phrase was used as a name of God. The main character of the painting is God at the time of creation, which does not establish order, but limits freedom and denotes the limits of imagination.

Eduar Mana "Bar in" Foli-Berger "" 1882

Stored at the Institute of Art Kurto in London.

Foli-Berger is variety and cabaret in Paris. Mana often visited Foli-Berger and eventually wrote this picture - the last before his death in 1883. Behind the bar, in the midst of drinking, eating, talking and smoking crowd, is absorbed by the bartender's own thoughts, observing an acrobat on a trapezium, which can be seen in the upper left corner of the picture.

Titian "Love earth and Love Heaven" 1515-1516

Stored in Borghese Gallery in Rome.

It is noteworthy that the modern title of the picture was not given by the artist himself, and the beginning is used only two centuries later. Until that time, the paintings had different names: "Beauty Adjusted and Uncooked" (1613), "Three Love Types" (1650), "Divine and Silent Women" (1700), and, in the end, "Love earthly and Love Heavenly "(1792 and 1833).

Mikhail Nesterov "Vision Patterns of Bartholomew" 1889-1890

Stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

The first and most significant work from the cycle dedicated to Sergia Radonezh. Until the end of his days, the artist was convinced that "Vision of the Pattern of Bartholomew" - its best work. At the end of the years, the artist loved to repeat: "I will not live. There will be a" tag of warfolomes. "Now, after thirty, after fifty years after my death, he will still say something to people - it means he is alive, it means alive I am alive . "

Peter Bruegel Senior "Parable on the Blind" 1568

Capodimont in Naples in Naples Museum is stored.

Other names of the picture - "blind", "Parabola blind", "blindly leads the blind." It is believed that the plot of the paintings is based on the biblical parable of the blind: "If blind is blind, then both will fall into the pit."

Victor Vasnetsov "Alenushka" 1881

Stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery.

As a basis, a fairy tale "On sister Alyonushka and Bratz Ivanushka" was taken. Initially, the picture of Vasnetsova was called "Falc of Alyonushka". "Fuckles" at the time called orphans. "Alenushka", "said the artist himself," as if I lived in my head for a long time, but I really saw her in Akhtyrka, when I met one proliferant girl, hit my imagination. So many longing, loneliness and pure Russian sadness was in her eyes ... Some kind of special Russian spirit has sunk from her. "

Vincent Van Gogh "Star Night" 1889

Stored in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Unlike most paintings, the "Star Night" was written in memory. Van Gogh was at that time in the hospital Saint-Remy, tormented by the attacks of madness.

Karl Bromlov "Last Day Pompeii" 1830-1833

Stored in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

The picture shows the famous eruption of Vesuvius volcano in 79 n. e. and the destruction of the city of Pompei near Naples. An image of an artist in the left corner of the picture is a self-portrait of the author.

Pablo Picasso "Girl on Share" 1905

Stored in Pushkin Museum, Moscow

The picture was in Russia thanks to the industrialist Ivan Abramovich Morozov, who in 1913 acquired it for 16,000 francs. In 1918, the Personal Collection I. A. Morozova was nationalized. At the moment, the picture is in the meeting of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin.

Leonardo da Vinci "Madonna Litta" 1491

Stored in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

The initial name of the picture is "Madonna with a baby." The current name of the picture is derived from the name of its owner - Graph Litt, the owner of the family gallery in Milan. There is a suggestion that the figure of the baby was written not by Leonardo da Vinci, but belongs to the brush of one of his students. This is evidenced by an unusual infant pose manner for the author's manner.

Jean Engr "Turkish Baths" 1862

Stored in the Louvre in Paris.

Engr finished writing this picture when he was 80 years old. This picture, the artist brings a peculiar result of the image of the bathing rooms, the subject of which has long been present in his work. Initially, the canvas was in the form of a square, but a year after its completion, the artist turned it into a round picture - TDO.

Ivan Shishkin, Konstantin Savitsky "Morning in the Pine Forest" 1889

Stored in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

"Morning in a pine forest" - a picture of Russian artists Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Savitsky painted bears, but the collector Pavel Tretyakov, when he acquired a picture, erased his signature, so that now the author of the picture is indicated by one Shishkin.

Mikhail Vrubel "Tsarevna-Swan" 1900

Stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery

The picture is written on the basis of the scenic image of the heroine of Opera N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov "Tale of the Tsar Saltan" in the plot of the same name Tazzle A. S. Pushkin. Vrubel created the premieres of the 1900 Opera premiere sketches for scenery and suits, and his wife sang a batch of princes.

Giuseppe Archimboldo "Portrait of Emperor Rudolph II in the image of a vertoon" 1590

Located in the Castle of the Skocoloster in Stockholm.

One of the few preserved works by the artist, which was portraits from fruits, vegetables, colors, crustaceans, fish, pearls, musical and other instruments, books, and so on. "Vertun" is a portrait of the emperor represented in the form of ancient Roman god of the time of the year, vegetation and transformation. In the picture, Rudolph fully consists of fruits, colors and vegetables.

Edgar Dega "Blue Dancers" 1897

Located in the Art Museum. A. S. Pushkin in Moscow.

Degi was a big ballet fan. He is called the artist ballerin. The work of the "blue dancers" refers to the late period of Degi's creativity, when his vision weakened, and he began to work in large color spots, giving the paramount importance to the decorative organization of the picture surface.

Leonardo da Vinci "Mona Lisa" 1503-1505

Stored in Louvre, Paris.

"Mona Lisa" may not receive worldwide fame if she did not kidnap her in 1911. The picture was found two years later in Italy: the thief responded to the announcement in the newspaper and suggested selling the "Joke" director of the Uffiza gallery. All this time, while the investigation went, "Mona Lisa" did not go with the covers of newspapers and magazines around the world, becoming an object of copying and worship.

Sandro Botticelli "Birth of Venus" 1486

Stored in Florence in the Uffizi Gallery

Picture illustrates Afrodite's birthday. The nude goddess is floating to the shore in the opened shell, driven by the wind. In the left side of the picture of Marshmallow (Western Wind) in the arms of his wife, chlorides blows on the sink, creating a wind filled with flowers. On the shore, the goddess meets one of the grants. The Birth of Venus is well preserved due to the fact that Botticelli inflicts a protective layer of egg yolk into the picture.

Michelangelo "Creation of Adam" 1511

Located in the Sicastine Chapel in the Vatican.

Let us now remember the most famous paintings of the world. This theme on one side is very simple, and on the other - the insanely difficult. After all, in the entire history of mankind on Mother Earth in different centuries, a lot of brilliant painters who left their immortal masterpieces were born in different countries.

I would not really want to immediately go around the attention of any great artist. But within the framework of this article we will try to talk only about those works that are familiar not only to true connoisseurs of beautiful, artists and art historians, but also the absolute majority of the most simple inhabitants of our planet.

Such, for example, are some paintings da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Karl Bryullov, Aivazovsky, Kustodiev, and others. Their works are printed on calendars, in magazines, books and textbooks, are made by huge circulations in the form of reproductions, Constantly flash on the TV screens. In essence, they are familiar with us since childhood.

Picturesque Leonardo Da Vinci

The conversation about the most famous paintings of the world is unthinkable without mentioning the world's world as the famous "Jokonda", "Madonna Litta", "Lady with the mountain", written by the Great Leonardo da Vinci. From this list, the first two names are especially allocated. The beautiful and mysterious "Mona Lisa" is already many centuries, with a unique smile on the lips, calmly looking at the vanity of this world - is there anyone among civilized people at least one who would never have seen this picture?

It is believed that Lisa Gerardini is considered on the canvas - a modest spouse of a certain rich Florentine merchant named Francesco Del Jocondo. Now you know where the portrait is "Joconda"? And the picture was written was approximately in 1503-1505. Today, her invaluable script can be seen in the louvre. There, the portrait hanging, protected by a thick bulletproof glass and a lot of people always crowind around it. And it is not surprising, because people have not been able to unravel the secret of the smile of this lady.

Pictures da Vinci are priceless all to one, they are impossible to buy even for very much money. But there is a special work among his work - it is a picturesque fresco "Last Supper". Its creation time: 1495-1498, but she was written by a master for the order of the Church in the refectory monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazia, which is located in the deslava Italian city of Milan. The plot depicts one of the most important events in the history of mankind - the last evening meal of Christ with his twelve pupils. Large luck that restorers managed to maintain the mural to our times, because Widely known is the fact that during work on it, Leonardo was engaged in experiments with paints and soil coating of the wall, which later led to the rapid destruction of the colorful layer.

Works of Rafael Santi

The next artist, about which without exaggeration to say that he left behind the most famous paintings of the world - this is, of course, Rafael Santi - a painter who lived in Italy from 1483 to 1520. One of his most famous and popular works is considered one of the most advanced and amazing pictorial creations created ever hand.

Another famous creation of the master is a huge (770 per 500 cm) fresco "Athens School", adorning one of the frontal halls of the Vatican Palace. Among the many figures of the picture you can see such great thinkers of humanity, like Pythagoras, Epicur, Socrates, Diogen, Aristotle, Plato. Among the philosophers Rafael depicted himself, as well as his beautiful beloved Margeryit.

Unsurpassed Botticelli

What do you think, what works are the following works on the list "Pictures of the most famous artists"? These are stunning and unearthly work Sandro Botticelli. We call only two of his creations, who are familiar to everyone: "Birth of Venus" and a canvas, on which the famous three graces are depicted - "Spring". And the one, and the other picture are a hymn female beauty. No other master was able to learn to capture so captive and poetic female images in the colors.

The artist's muse was a young beautiful Florenty, the beloved Juliano Medici - it is her tender perfect features that look at us from the depths of centuries.

Cloths impressionists

Well, now it's time to remember about impressionism. This artistic direction originated in France at the end of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Artists working in this manner, a lot and creativity of each of them deserves a separate conversation. In this article, we will talk about the most famous pictures of Monet, who stood at the origins of impressionism and is considered one of its founders. The work of this master is included in the collection of the largest museums of Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg and other cities in the world.

The general public is familiar with such pictures of Claude Monet, as "pond with and pita". The artist has written many options for work on these motifs.

Van Gogh - artist, whose paintings are the most expensive in the world

Van Gogh was perhaps the most efficient artist in the history of mankind. His legacy is about 800 picturesque works and countless figures. The most famous is, perhaps, "sunflowers". It is known for certain that the master was written 7 still lifes from this series. But, only 5 lived to this day, and each picture is assessed as the most expensive diamond. Just think: during the life of Van Gogh managed to sell only one of his work, and that is for the sowing pennies, and now the cost of his paintings at auctions beats all records.

Another most famous picture of Van Gogh is an exquisite fantastic cloth "Starry Night". This work is so popular that today on the Internet you can find even its animated option. Painting Van Gogh is so talented and original that even in the form of reproductions it can be considered infinitely.

Dreams captured on canvas

Speaking about the most famous paintings of the world, it is impossible not to mention the creativity of the founder of Surrealism Salvador Dali. It is believed that the most popular pictorial work of the artist is the "constancy of memory", which depicts a watch in the form of symbols of an infinite flow of time. The deserted coast is alone symbolizes the emptiness, which, according to Dali, he often felt inside himself.

However, this is not the only popular product of a surrealist. The pictures of "Atomic Leda", "Premonition of the Civil War", "Flaming Giraffe", "Sleep" can be considered no less well known.

The most famous Russian paintings

Until now, the pictorial canvas of foreign craftsmen mentioned in our article. Meanwhile, there are many paintings written by our great compatriots who are very popular around the world. There were always many talented artists in Russia. And if many masterpieces of world painting see in the middlewall, in view of the fact that they are abroad, then the original of the Russian painters we can see in many museums of our country, for example, in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Here are the pictures of the Tretyakov, the most famous, as we have and abroad: "Three heroes" (V. Vasnetsova), "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" (I. Repin), "Demon Sitting" (M. Vrubel), "The phenomenon of Christ to the people (A. Ivanov)," Girl with Peaches "(I. Repin)," Morning in the Pine Forest "(I. Shishkin)," Moscow Dvorik "(V. Polenov)," Graci flew ", etc.

Kustodiyevsky beauties

Separately, I would like to talk about the works of the famous Russian artist Boris Kustodiev - no one else was able to talk so delicious and beautifully to tell the painting by Russian life, about the mysterious Russian soul. Which of us did not admire the pretty beauty for a samovar ("Kupchayha for tea") or a full-blooded young lady in a village Banke ("Russian Venus") in a rustic health and youth.

Here are another names of some popular works of the original painter: "Winter", "Potret Fedor Shalyapin", "Senokos", "Kupchikha with purchases", "Fair", "Buckulcher", "Maslenitsa".

"Malevich's black square

We briefly told about some of the most famous Russian paintings, but it would be wrong to finish the article, without writing anything about one of the most controversial and ambiguous works that came to the light from the brush of one of the outstanding Russian artists. We are talking about the "black square" Kazimir Malevich - the founder of the direction in painting under the name "Suprematism". And although Malevich wrote a lot of paintings for his long creative life, but all this work was most memorized.

There are several variants of the Black Square. They can be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery, Hermitage and the Russian Museum. The price of these works is enormous, according to experts, today it can reach up to 80 million dollars.

Conclusion

It is a pity that in this short review failed to tell about the world masterpieces of Rembrandt, Rubens, Karl Bryullov, Pablo Picasso, Gauguin fields and other beautiful creators. Their work is worthy of attention at no less.

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