Mystical paintings of Russian artists. The most mysterious paintings in history

There is a superstition that the portrait writing can bring the unfortunate model. In the history of Russian painting there were several famous canvases, which had a mystical reputation.

"Ivan the Terrible and Son of His Ivan on November 16, 1581." Ilya Repin

Ilya Repin had a "fatal painter" reputation: many of those whose portraits he painted, dying suicide. Among them, Mussorgsky, Pisemist, Pirogov, Italian actor Mursa D'Argeanto and Fyodor Tyutchev.

The most gloomy picture of Repin recognize "Ivan Grozny kills his son." Curious fact: It is still unknown, if Ivan IV his son killed or this legend really composed by the Vatican envoy Antonio Possevino.

The picture made an oppressive impression on the visitors of the exhibition. Cases of hysteria were recorded, and in 1913, the icon painter Abram Balashov resorbed the picture with a knife. Later he was admitted insane.

A strange coincidence: the artist of Myasoedov, from which Repin wrote the image of the king, soon almost killed in the attack of anger of His son Ivan, and the writer Vsevolod Garshin, who becamefortorchik For Tsarevich Ivan, went crazy and committed suicide.

"Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina." Vladimir Borovikovsky

Maria Lopukhin, originating from the county of Tolsty, became the artist's simulator at 18, shortly after his own wedding. Amazingly beautiful girl was healthy and full strength, but died 5 years later. After years, the poet Polonsky will write "The beauty of her Borovikovsky saved ...".

There were rumors about the connection of the painting with the death of a loophin. The city legend was born that a portrait could not look at a portrait - the sad fate of the "Timber" will suffer.

Some argued that the father of the girl, the master of the Masonic lodge, concluded the Spirit of his daughter in the portrait.

After 80 years, the picture acquired Tretyakov, who was not afraid of the reputation of the portrait. Today, the canvas is located in the Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.

"Unknown". Ivan Kramskaya

The painting "Unknown" (1883) caused a rustling interest among the St. Petersburg public. But Tretyakov flatly refused to acquire a picture for his collection. So, the "stranger" began his journey through private collections. Soon we began to occur: the first owner was abandoned by his wife, the second burned down the house, the third went bankrupt. All misfortunes attributed a fatal picture.

The artist himself did not escape the trouble, shortly after writing the picture, two sons of Kramsky died.

Pictures were sold abroad, where she continued to bring one misfortune to the owners, while in 1925 the canvas did not return to Russia. When the portrait turned out to be in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery of the misfortune ceased.

"Troika". Vasily Perov

Perov could not find a simulator for a central boy for a long time, until he met one woman who was driving through Moscow at a manty-motherly with his 12-year-old Son Vasya. The artist managed to persuade a woman to give Vasily to pop up for the painting.

A few years later, Perov again met with this woman. It turned out that a year after writing a picture of Vassenka died, and his mother specially came to the artist to buy a picture for the last money.

But the canvas was already acquired and exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery. When a woman saw Troika, she fell on her knees and began to pray. Sillarmed, artist wrote for woman portrait of her son.

"Demon defeated." Mikhail Vrubel

Son Vrubel, Savva, died suddenly soon after the artist finished the portrait of the boy. The death of the Son became a blow to Vrubel, so he concentrated on his last picture "Demon defeated".

The desire to finish the canvas turned into obsession. Vrubel continued to add the picture even when she was sent to the exhibition.

Not paying attention to visitors, the artist came to the gallery, took the brushes and continued to work. Concerned relatives contacted the doctor, but it was already too late - the dice of the spinal cord brought Vrubel into the grave, despite the treatment.

"Mermaids". Ivan Kramskaya

Ivan Kramskaya conceived to write a picture based on the story N.V. Gogol "May night, or a drowning". At the first exhibition in the mobile partnership, the picture was hung next to the pastoral "Gracchi flew" by Alexei Savrasov. On the first night, the picture "Graci" fell from the wall.

Soon both paintings bought Tretyakov, "Grachics flew" took a place in the office, and the "mermaids" were put up in the hall. From this point on, the servants and households of Tretyakov began to complain about the guarantee singing, informed at night from the hall.

Moreover, people began to celebrate that next to the picture they experience the decline.

Mysticism continued until the old nurse advised to remove the mermaids from the light to the far end of the hall. Tretyakov followed the Council, and the oddities stopped.

"To the death of Alexander III." Ivan Aivazovsky

When the artist found out about the death of Emperor Alexander III, he was shocked and wrote a picture without any order. According to the idea of \u200b\u200bAivazovsky, the picture was supposed to symbolize the celebration of life over death. But, by graduating from the picture, Aivazovsky hid it and did not show anyone. For the first time, the picture was put on all over 100 years later.

The picture is broken into fragments, a cross is depicted on the canvas, the Petropavlovsk fortress and the figure of a woman in black.

A strange effect is that at a certain angle, the female figure turns into a laughing man. Some see in this silhouette of Nikolai II, while others - Pakhoma Andreyushkin, one of those terrorists who failed to attempt to the emperor in 1887.

In almost every significant work of art, there is a mystery, "double bottom" or a secret story that you want to reveal.

Music on the buttocks

Jerome Bosch, "Garden of Earth Delights", 1500-1510.

Fragment of part of triptych

Disputes about the meanings and hidden meanings of the most famous work of the Dutch artist do not subside from the moment of its appearance. On the right sash of triptych called "Music Hell", sinners are depicted, which torture in the underworld with the help of musical instruments. One of them has notes on the buttocks. A student of Christian University Oklahoma Amelia Hamrick, who studied the picture, shifted the notation of the XVI century to modern way and recorded "a song from the ass from Hell, which was 500 years old."

Nude Mona Lisa

The famous "Joconda" exists in two versions: the nude version is called "Monta Bath", she wrote her a little-known artist Salaya, who was a student and a simulator of the great Leonardo da Vinci. Many art critics are confident that it was he who was a model for paintings by Leonardo "John Baptist" and "Bakhus". There are also versions that Salaya dressed in a women's dress served as the Mona Lisa itself.

Old fisherman

In 1902, the Hungarian artist Tivadar Kostya Chongwari wrote a picture of the old fisherman. It would seem that there is nothing unusual in the picture, but Tivar laid the subtext in it, during the lifetime of the artist and undisclosed.

Few people occurred to apply the mirror to the middle of the picture. Each person can be like God (the right-handed old man's right shoulder) and the devil (the left shoulder of the old man is duplicated).

And was Kit?

Hendrik van Antonissen "Scene on the shore".

It would seem the usual landscape. Boats, people on the shore and deserted sea. And only an X-ray study showed that people gathered on the shore is not just like that - in the original they considered the carcass of China, thrown ashore.

However, the artist decided that no one would want to look at the dead whale, and rewrote the picture.

Two "breakfast on the grass"

Eduard Mana, "Breakfast on the Grass", 1863.

Claude Monet, "Breakfast on the grass", 1865.

Artists Eduard Mana and Claude Monet are sometimes confused - after all, they were both French people, lived at one time and worked in the style of impressionism. Even the name of one of the most famous paintings by Mana "Breakfast on the Grass" Monet borrowed and wrote his "breakfast on the grass."

Doubles on the "Last Evening"

Leonardo da Vinci, "Last Supper", 1495-1498.

When Leonardo da Vinci wrote a "secret evening", he attached special meaning Two figures: Christ and Judah. He was looking for simulators for them for a very long time. Finally, he managed to find a model for the image of Christ among young singers. To pick up a simulator for Judah Leonardo was not able for three years. But one day he came across the street on a drunkard, who was lying in a wastewater. It was a young man who was a non-digestion. Leonardo invited him to the restaurant, where he immediately began to write from him Judas. When the drinker came to himself, he told the artist that one day already posed him. It was a few years ago when he sang in the church choir, Leonardo wrote from Him Christ.

"Night Watch" or "Day"?

Rembrandt, "Night Watch", 1642.

One of the most famous paintings of Rembrandt "Speech by Rifle Company Captain France Bannang Coca and Lieutenant Villem Van Ryuteitbürga" about two hundred years has checked in different halls and was discovered by art historians only in the XIX century. Since it seemed that the figures perform on a dark background, she was called "Night Watch", and under this title she entered the treasury of world art.

And only during the restoration spent in 1947, it was discovered that in the hall the picture managed to be covered with a layer of soot, distorting her flavor. After clearing the original painting, it turned out that the scene represented by Rembrandt actually occurs during the day. The position of the shade from the left hand of Captain Coca shows that the time of action is not more than 14 hours.

Inverted boat

Henri Matisse, "Boat", 1937.

In the New York Museum of Contemporary Art in 1961, a picture of Henri Matisse "Boat" was exhibited. Only after 47 days someone drew attention to the fact that the picture hangs upside down. On the canvas depicted 10 purple lines and two blue sails on a white background. Two sails, the artist painted not just like that, the second sail is a reflection of the first water.
In order not to make a mistake in how the picture should hang, you need to pay attention to the details. A larger sail must be the top of the picture, and the peak of the sail pattern should be directed to the right upper angle.

Cheating in self-portrait

Vincent Van Gogh, "Self-portrait with a tube", 1889.

The fact that Van Gogh allegedly cut off his ear, go legends. Now the most reliable is the version that the ear Van Gogh damaged in a small scuffle with the participation of another artist - Gogen fields.

Self-portrait is interesting in that reflects reality in distorted form: the artist is depicted with a bandaged right ear, because it used a mirror during operation. In fact, the left ear suffered.

Aliens Mishki

Ivan Shishkin, "Morning in a Pine Forest", 1889.

The famous painting belongs not only to the brush of Shishkin. Many artists who were friendly among themselves often resorted to the "help of a friend", and Ivan Ivanovich, had a whole life with landscapes, feared that touching bears would not work with him as it was necessary. Therefore, Shishkin appealed to the familiar animalist artist Konstantin Savitsky.

Savitsky painted hardly not the best bears in the history of Russian painting, and the Tretyakov commanded her surname from the canvas, because everything in the picture "since the plan and ending with the fulfillment, everything speaks about the manner of painting, about the creative method for Shishkin."

Innocent History "Gothic"

Grant Wood, "American Gothic", 1930.

The work of the wood grant is considered one of the strangest and depressing in the history of American painting. The painting with gloomy father and daughter is filled with details that indicate the severity, puritancy and retrogradment of the people depicted.
In fact, the artist did not think of portraying any horror: during a trip to Iowa and he noticed a small house in the Gothic style and decided to portray those people who, in his opinion, would ideally come as inhabitants. In the form of characters, which are so offended by the inhabitants of Iowa, the sister of the grant and his dentist are immortalized.

Revenge of Salvador Dali

The picture "Figure by the window" was written in 1925, when Dali was 21 years old. Then the artist has not yet entered Gala, and his museum was Sister Ana Maria. The relationship of brother and sisters deteriorated when he wrote on one of the pictures "Sometimes I spit on the portrait of my own mother, and it gives me pleasure." Ana Maria could not forgive such a shock.

In his book of 1949, Salvador gave the eyes of her sister "she writes about his brother without any praise. The book led Salvador to rabies. Another ten after that, he was angry with each other case. And so, in 1954 a picture "The young virgin, indulging in Sodomsky sin with the help of horns of his own chastity appears." Pose of a woman, its curls, a landscape outside the window and the color scheme paintings are clearly echoing with the "window figure". There is a version that I was given a revengent sister for her book.

Double Dana

Rembrandt Harmens Wang Rhine, "Dana", 1636 - 1647.

Many secrets of one of the most famous paintings of Rembrandt were disclosed only in the 60s of the twentieth century, when the canvas enlightened the X-rays. For example, shooting showed that in the early version, the face of the princess, which entered into a love relationship with Zeus, was similar to the face of Saskiy - the spouse of the painter, who died in 1642. At the final version of the picture, it began to resemble the face of Herges Dirks - Lovers Rembrandt, with which the artist lived after the death of his wife.

Yellow Bedroom Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, "Bedroom in Arles", 1888 - 1889.

In May 1888, Van Gogh acquired a small workshop in Arle, in the south of France, where he escaped from not understanding his Paris artists and critics. In one of the four rooms, Vincent places the bedroom. In October, everything is ready, and he decides to draw a "bedroom Van Gogh in Arles." For the artist, it was very important to flavor, the comfort of the rooms: everything should have been made to the thoughts on vacation. At the same time, the picture is withstanding in anxious yellow tones.

Van Gogh's creativity researchers explain this by the fact that the artist took a spatter - a remedy for epilepsy, which causes serious changes in the patient in color perception: all surrounding reality is painted in green-yellow tones.

Toothless perfection

Leonardo da Vinci, "Portrait of Mrs. Liza Del Jocondo", 1503 - 1519.

The generally accepted opinion is that Mona Lisa is perfection and a smile is beautiful with his mysteriousness. However, American art historian (and part-time dentist) Joseph Borkovsky believes that, judging by the expression of the face, the heroine lost a lot of teeth. Studying enlarged photos of the masterpiece, Borkovski also discovered the scars around her mouth. "She smiles like that because of what happened to her," the expert believes. - The expression of her face is typically for people who have lost its front teeth. "

Major on facingontrol

Pavel Fedotov, "Major's Major", 1848.

The public, who first saw the picture of Major's "Watchtime," laughed from the soul: Fedotov's artist filled with ironic details, understandable viewers of that time. For example, Major is clearly not familiar with the rules of the noble etiquette: he appeared without laid bouquets for the bride and her mother. And the bride itself, her merchant parents discharged into the evening ball gown, although in the yard day (all the lamps in the room are extinguished). The girl clearly first tried a decolted dress, confused and tries to escape into his bel.

Why freedom is naked

Ferdinan Victor Eugene Delakrua, "Freedom on the barricades", 1830.

According to the art historian Etienne Juli, Delacroix wrote the face of a woman with the famous Parisian revolutionaries - Anna-Charlotte's missure, which went to the barricades after the death of his brother from the hands of royal soldiers and killed the Ninter Guardsmen. The artist depicted it with naked breasts. According to him, this is a symbol of fearlessness and dedication, as well as the celebrations of democracy: Nagaya chest shows that freedom, as a simple hat, is not a corset.

Unquadant square

Kazimir Malevich, "Black Suprematic Square", 1915.

In fact, the "black square" is not at all black and not at all square: none of the sides of the quadrangle is not parallel to any other side, and not one of the sides of the square frame, which the picture is framed. And dark color is the result of mixing various colors, among which it was not black. It is believed that it was not the negligence of the author, but a fundamental position, the desire to create a dynamic, moving form.

Specialists of the Tretyakov Gallery found the author's inscription at the famous picture of Malevich. The inscription states: "Battle of blacks in a dark cave." This phrase sends to the name of the joking picture of the French journalist, the writer and the artist Alfons Alla "Battle of Blacks in the Dark Cave of Deep At night", which was absolutely black rectangle.

Melodrama of the Austrian Mona Lisa

Gustav Klimt, "Portrait of Adelie Bloch-Bauer", 1907.

On one of the most significant climes, the wife of Austrian sugar magnate Fetinad Bloch Bauer was captured. All Vienna discussed the stormy Roman Adelel and the famous artist. A vulnerable husband wanted to take revenge on lovers, but chose a very unusual way: he decided to order a portrait of the portrait of Adeli and make him make hundreds of sketches until the artist starts turning away from her.

Bloch Bauer wanted work to last for several years, and a simulator could see how the feelings of Clima could fuss. He made an artist a generous proposal, from which he could not refuse, and everything developed on the scenario of a deceived husband: the work was completed for 4 years, lovers have long cooled to each other. Adel Bloch Bauer never learned that her husband was aware of her relationship with Clima.

Picture that returned Gogen to life

Paul Gajen, "Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?", 1897-1898.

The most famous canvas of Hogen has one feature: it is "reading" without left to right, but on the right to left, like the Kabbalistic texts that the artist was interested in. It is in this order that the allegory of the spiritual and physical life of a person unfolds: from the origin of the soul (sleeping child in the lower right corner) to the inevitability of the death hour (bird with a lizard in claws in the lower left corner).

The picture was written by Gogen on Tahiti, where the artist ran several times from civilization. But this time, life on the island did not specify: total poverty led him to depression. Having finished the canvas, which should have become his spiritual testament, Gauguen took a box with arsenic and went to the mountains to die. However, he did not calculate the dose, and suicide failed. In the next morning, he, swing, did not know the hut and fell asleep, and when he woke up, he felt the forgotten thirst for life. And in 1898, his affairs went uphill, and in the work began their bright period.

112 proverbs on one picture

Peter Bruegel - Senior, "Netherlands Proverbs", 1559

Peter Bruegel - Senior depicted the land, inhabited by literal images of the Dutch proverbs of those days. In a written picture, there are approximately 112 recognized idioms. Some of them are used to this day, for example, such as: "Fly against the current", "fight your head about the wall", "armed to teeth" and "Big fish eats a small one."

Other proverbs reflect human nonsense.

Subjectivity of art

Paul Gogen, "Breton village under the snow", 1894

The painting of Gogen "Breton village in the snow" was sold after the death of the author in just seven francs and, moreover, called Niagara Falls. A man who spent auction accidentally hung up a picture of his legs, seeing a waterfall in it.

Hidden painting

Pablo Picasso, Blue Room, 1901

In 2008, infrared radiation showed that a "blue room" was hidden another image - a portrait of a man dressed in a suit with a butterfly and put her head on his hand. "As soon as Picasso appeared a new idea, he was taken for the brush and embodied it. But he did not have the opportunity to buy a new canvas every time a muse was visited, "explains the possible reason for this art criticism of Patricia Favero.

Inaccessible Moroccanika

Zinaida Serebryakova, "Nagaya", 1928

Once Zinaida Serebryakova received a tempting offer - to go to the creative journey to portray the naked figures of East Dev. But it turned out that in those places to find simators simply impossible. A translator of Zinaida came to the rescue - he led her sisters and a bride to her. No one before that and after that did not manage to capture closed oriental women nude.

Spontaneous illusion

Valentin Serov, "Portrait of Nicholas II in a pressURE", 1900

For a long time, Serov could not write a portrait of the king. When the artist surrendered at all, he apologized to Nikolai. Nikolai was a little upset, sat down at the table, stretching his hands in front of him ... And then the artist painted - here it is an image! A simple military in an officer's tuber with pure and sad eyes. This portrait is considered the best image of the last emperor.

Again Double

© Fedor Reshetnikov

The famous painting "Again Two" is just the second part of the artistic trilogy.

The first part is "arrived on vacation." Obviously secured family, winter holidays, a joyful student student.

The second part is "again deuce." The poor family from the working outskirts, the midst of the school year, Puraden Oballa, again grabbed the two. In the upper left corner, the picture "arrived on vacation" was visible.

The third part is "re-examination". Country house, summer, all walk, one malicious inequality, having failed annual exam, is forced to sit in four walls and tool. In the upper left corner, a picture "Two again" is visible.

How masterpieces are born

Joseph Turner, "Rain, Couples and Speed", 1844

In 1842, Mrs. Simon traveled by train in England. Suddenly began a strong shower. The elderly gentleman, who was sitting opposite her, got up, opened the window, stuck his head and looked at ten minutes. Unable to keep your curiosity, the woman also opened the window and began to look ahead. A year later, she found a picture of "rain, couples and speed" at the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts and was able to recognize the same episode in it.

Anatomy lesson from Michelangelo

Michelangelo, "Creation of Adam", 1511

A pair of American experts in the field of neuroanatomy believe that Michelangelo actually left some anatomical illustrations in one of his most famous works. They believe that in the right part of the picture depicts a huge brain. It is surprising, but you can find even complex components, such as a cerebellum, optic nerves and pituitary gland. And the cast green ribbon perfectly coincides with the location of the vertebral artery.

"Last Supper" Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, "Night Terrace Cafe", 1888

Explorer Jared Baxter believes that on the canvas Van Gogh "Night Terrace Cafe" is encrypted by the dedication of the "secret evening" Leonardo da Vinci. In the center of the picture there is a waiter with long hair and in a white tunic, reminding the clothes of Christ, and there are exactly 12 visitors to the cafe around it. Also Baxter draws attention to the cross, located right behind the waiter's back in white.

Dali's memory

Salvador Dali, "Constancy of Memory", 1931

It is no secret that the thoughts attending Dali during the creation of his masterpieces were always in the form of very realistic images that the artist then transferred to the canvas. So, according to the author himself, the picture "Constancy of Memory" was written as a result of associations arising at the form of a melted cheese.

What screams munk

Edward Munk, Creek, 1893.

Munk so told about the appearance of the idea of \u200b\u200bone of the most mysterious paintings in world painting: "I walked along the path with two friends - the sun was sat down - the sky unexpectedly became bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaning about the fence - I looked at Blood and flame languages \u200b\u200bover a bluish-black fjord and the city - my friends went further, and I stood, trembling from excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature. " But what kind of sunset could scare the artist?

There is a version that the idea of \u200b\u200b"scream" was born at Mill in 1883, when several strongest eruptions of Krakataau volcano occurred - so powerful that they changed the temperature of the atmosphere of the Earth to one degree. Abundant amount of dust and ash spread all over the globe, coming even to Norway. Several evenings in a row, the sunsets looked as if, the apocalypse would be - one of them was the source of the artist's inspiration.

Writer in the people

Alexander Ivanov, "The Phenomenon of Christ People", 1837-1857.

Dozens of simulators posed Alexander Ivanov for his main picture. One of them is known for no less than the artist. In the background, among the traverses and Roman horsemen, who have not yet heard the preaching of John the Forerunners, you can see the character in Korchin Chiton. His Ivanov wrote from Nicholas Gogol. The writer tightly communicated with the artist in Italy, in particular on religious issues, and gave him advice in the process of writing the picture. Gogol believed that Ivanov "had long died for the whole world, except for his work."

Gout Michelangelo

Rafael Santi, Athens School, 1511.

Creating the famous Fresco "Athens School", Rafael perpetuated his friends and acquaintances in the images of ancient Greek philosophers. One of them was Michelangelo Buonotti "In the role of" Herclite. Several centuries fresco kept the secrets of the personal life of Michelangelo, and modern researchers did the assumption that the strangely angry knee of the artist testifies to the presence of the diseases of the joints.

It is likely to consider the characteristics of the lifestyle and the working conditions of the artists of the Renaissance and Chronic Workaholism Michelangelo.

Mirror couple Arnolphini

Yang Van Eyk, "Portrait of Arnolphin Fau", 1434

In the mirror behind Arnolphin's spouses, you can see the reflection of two more people in the room. Most likely, these are witnesses present at the conclusion of the contract. One of them is Van Eyke, as evidenced by the Latin inscription, placed, contrary to tradition, above the mirror in the center of the composition: "Jan Van Eyk was here." So usually fastened contracts.

As a flaw turned into a talent

Rembrandt Harmens Wang Rhine, "Self-portrait at the age of 63", 1669.

Researcher Margaret Livingston studied all Rembrandt self portraits and found that the artist suffered as a squint: in the images, his eyes look at different directions, which is not observed on the portraits of other people's brushes. The disease led to the fact that the artist could better perceive reality in two dimensions than people with normal vision. This phenomenon is called "stereo" - the inability to see the world in 3D. But since the painter has to work with a two-dimensional image, it was this deficiency of Rembrandt that could be one of the explanations of his phenomenal talent.

Sure Venus

Sandro Botticelli, "Birth of Venus", 1482-1486.

Before the appearance of the "birth of Venus", the image of a naked female body in painting symbolized only the idea of \u200b\u200boriginal sin. Sandro Botticelli The first of the European painters did not find anything sinful in it. Moreover, art historians are confident that the pagan goddess of love symbolizes the Christian image on the fresco: her phenomenon is an allegory of the revival of the soul, who has passed the baptism rite.

Butterist or butcher?

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, "Butterist", 1596.

For a long time, the picture was exhibited in the Hermitage called "Butcher's". Only at the beginning of the twentieth century, art historians agreed that the canvase still shows the young man (probably Caravaggio posed his familiar artist Mario Minni): On the notes in front of the musician, the recording of the bass party Madrigala Jacob Arcaader "You know that I love you" . A woman could hardly make such a choice - it's just hard for the throat. In addition, a lute, like a violin at the very edge of the picture, was considered a male tool in the era of Caravaggio.

When it comes to painting, imagination, as a rule, draws pastoral and majestic portraits. But in fact, the visual art is multifaceted. It happened that from under the brush of great artists, there were very ambiguous paintings, which someone hardly want to hang at home. In our review, the 10 most terrible paintings of famous artists.

1. Great red dragon and monster from the sea. William Blake

William Blake today is known for its engravings and romantic poetry, but during his lifetime it was practically not appreciated. Engravings and illustrations of Blake are a classic romantic style, but today we consider a series of watercolor paintings Blake, which depict a large red dragon from the book of Revelation. In this picture, a large red dragon is depicted, which is the incarnation of the devil, which stands on the seven-head beast in the sea.

2. Investigation of the portrait of Innocent X work of Velasquez. Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His paintings affecting their courage and gloomy are sold for millions of dollars. During his lifetime, Bacon often wrote his own interpretation of the portrait of Innokentia X. In the original work of Velasquez, Dad Innokenty X thoughtfully looks from the canvas, and Bacon portrayed him screaming.

3. Dante and Vergilius in hell. Adolf William Bugro

Dante Hell, with his image of terrible torture, inspired artists since the publication of this work. Bogro is known as its realistic images of classic scenes, but in this picture depicted a circle of hell, where the impostors are constantly fighting, leading each other's personality through a bite.

4. Death of Marat. Edward Munk.

Edward Munch is the most famous artist of Norway. His famous painting "Creek", which personifies melancholy, tightly entered into the consciousness of any person who is not indifferent to art. Marat was one of the leading political leaders of the French revolution. Since Marat suffered from skin disease, he spent most of the day in the bathroom, where he worked on his works. It was there Marat and was killed by Charlotte Cord. The death of Marata portrayed not one artist, but the picture of the mulk is especially realistic and cruel.

5. Chopped heads. Theodore Zheriku

The most famous work of Zheriko is the "raft of jellyfish" - a huge picture in a romantic style. Before creating large works, Zhero wrote the "warm-up" paintings similar to "severed heads" for which he used real limbs and severed heads. Similar material artist took in the morgue.

6. Temptation of St. Anthony. Mattias Grunevald.

Grunevald often painted religious images in the style of the Middle Ages, although he lived in the Renaissance era. Saint Anthony passed several tests of his faith, while lived in the desert. According to one of the legends, Saint Anthony was killed by demons living in a cave, but later revived and destroyed them. This picture depicts Saint Anthony, which was attacked by demons.

7. Still life of masks. Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde was one of the first expressionist artists, although his fame soon overshadowed a number of other expressionists, such as Munk. The essence of this flow is a distortion of reality to show a subjective point of view. This picture was made by the artist after examining masks in the Berlin Museum.

8. Saturn, devouring his son. Francisco Goyia

In Roman myths, which are largely based on Greek mythology, the father of the gods devoured his own children so that they never overtake him from the throne. This is the act of killing children and depicted Goya. The picture was not intended for the public, but was written on the wall of the artist's house together with several other gloomy paintings, known under the general name "Black painting".

9. Judith and Tolfern. Caravaggio

In the Old Testament there is a story about the brave widow Judith. Judea was attacked by an army led by a commander of the Olorfer. The judith came out for the city walls and headed to the camp of the departing city of the army. There, with the help of his beauty, seduced Oloferna. When the commander slept at night drunk, the judith cut off his head. This scene is quite popular among artists, but the Karavaggio version is especially terrible.

10. Garden of earthly pleasure. Jerome Bosch

Usually, Ieronim Bosch is associated with fantastic and religious paintings. The "garden of earthly pleasures" is a triptych. On the three panels of the picture, respectively, the Garden of Eden and the creation of humanity, the garden of earthly pleasures and punishment for sins, which occur in the earth garden. Bosha's work is one of the most terrible, but most beautiful works in the history of Western art.

Curses of murderers

Mystical stories and riddles are connected with many works of painting. Moreover, some experts believe that dark and secret forces are involved in the creation of a series of cloths. There is grounds for such an approval. Too often with these fatal masterpieces occurred amazing facts and inexplicable events - fires, deaths, madness of authors ...

One of the most famous "damned" cloth is a "crying boy" - the reproduction of the painting of the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolina. The history of its creation is such: the artist wanted to write a portrait of a crying child and took his little son as a simulator. But, since the baby could not cry to order, then the father specifically brought him to tears, burning in front of his face matches. The artist knew that his son was panicially afraid of fire, but the art was more expensive than the nerves of his own child, and he continued to mock him.
One day, the kid had not resistant to the hysterics and shouted, pouring into tears: "Gorge you yourself!" This curse did not slow down to come true - a boy died from pneumonia after two weeks, and soon he burned down in his own house and his father ... This is the background. Its sinister fame is a picture, more precisely - its reproduction, found in 1985, in England.
It happened due to a series of strange coincidences - in North England, one after another began to marvel in residential buildings. There were human sacrifices. Some affected mentioned that only cheap reproduction with the image of a crying child was miraculously survived from all the property. And such messages became more and more, until finally, one of the fire inspectors in all did not declare that in all the burning houses without exception was found intact "crying boy."
Immediately, the newspapers overwhelmed the wave of letters, which reported on various accidents, deaths and fires that occurred after the owners bought this picture. Of course, the "crying boy" immediately began to be considered damned, the story of his creation began, he chose and fudges ... As a result, one of the newspapers published an official statement that everyone who has this reproduction should get rid of it immediately, and the authorities It is also forbidden to acquire and keep her at home.
Until now, the "crying boy" pursues bad glory, especially in North England. By the way, the original has not yet been found. True, some doubters (especially in Russia) deliberately hanging this portrait on the wall, and, it seems, no one burned down. But still those who want to check the legend in practice are very few.

Assumption

American astronomers decided the mystery of the painting "Creek" of the Norwegian artist Edward Minka. They found an answer to the long-lasting art historian question - why the sky on the famous picture of the 1893 mock has such a weird and unique flaky-red color.

As it turned out, the color scheme paintings is not the fruit of imagination, but a completely realistic image of the sunsets in Europe at that time. They acquired a completely unexpected color after the eruption of volcanic Krakatau who occurred in Indonesia in August 1883, when a huge amount of ashes was thrown into the atmosphere of the planet. This eruption is considered one of the strongest and tragic in human history.

Scientists of the University of Texas conducted a detailed analysis of the diaries of munka, materials on Krakatau eruption and studied the posts of the Norwegian newspapers of 1883. "Our research trip to Oslo reached its main point when we found a turn on the road and realized that they were exactly in the place where Munk stood 120 years ago, - said the head of the study, professor of physics and astronomy at Donald Olson. - We understood That he looked at the southwest. Looking precisely in this direction, it was possible to see the sunsets associated with Krakatau eruption in the winter of 1883-84.
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Dutch artist Peter Bruegel Sr. wrote "worship of Magi" for two years. Mary Maria he "sketched" with his cousin. That was a woman fruitless, for which he received constant tumaki from her husband. It is she, as shuffled by simple medieval Netherlands, "infected" the picture. Four times "Volkhvov" bought private collectors. And each time the same story was repeated: in the family of 10 - 12 children were not born ...

Finally, in 1637, the picture of Jacob Van Campen bought the picture. He had already had three children by that time, so the curse was not much scarecrow.

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The most importantly famous bad picture of the online space with the following story: a kind of schoolgirl (often refer to Japanese) before opening veins (throw away from the window, to bite the tablets, hang, drowned in the bathroom) painted this picture.

If you look at it for 5 minutes in a row, the girl will change (eyes flush, the hair is sculpted, the fangs will appear).
In fact, it is clear that the picture is painted clearly not from hand as many love to say. Although such a picture no more clear answers appeared.

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8. Now it is modestly hanging without a frame in one of the stores of Vinnitsa. "Woman of rain" is the most expensive of all works: worth 500 dollars. According to sellers, they already bought the picture three times, and then returned. Customers explain that she dreams of them. And someone even says, as if he knows this lady, but where does not remember. And all who at least once looked into her white eyes, forever remember the feeling of rainy day, silence, anxiety and fear.

The exhibits were abducted from the museum located in close proximity to the central square Tahrir, where over the past three weeks passed mass demonstrations against the former ruler of Egypt Hosni Mubarak.

Marauders resulted in the museum on January 28, taking advantage of Chaos, who reigned during massive unrest, reports France Press agency, referring to the minister of the antiquities of Egypt, Khavass.

Among the stolen objects of cultural value, the statue of the young ancient Egyptian pharaoh of Tutankhamon from the gold-plated tree and a part of another statue of the same ruler are listed.

Damned treasure

In addition, the thieves took the limestone sculptures of Pharaoh Ehnaton and his spouses Nefertiti, Bust Princess Amarana, an amulet in the form of a beetle-scarab, hanging on mummy, and a number of other objects of an ancient culture.

On the fact of the embezzlement, a criminal case has already been established and at the moment the local police are engaged in the interrogation of suspects.

"Representatives of law enforcement agencies and military plan to conduct interrogation of criminals who are already in custody," Havass assured.

The museum, founded in 1858 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariett, was under the protection of military and civil volunteers for three weeks after the start of protests.

The building stores about 100 thousand exhibits, of which, perhaps, the most famous is supposedly damned treasure from the Tutankhamon tomb.

Pictures have appeared again.

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Anna Akhmatova somehow said: "When a person dies, his portraits change." Picturesque portrait, painting is a powerful energy structure. The painter not only writes a canvas on this or that story - he conveys his feelings, thoughts, the worldview, and most importantly - the mood, which forms the energy of the artistic canvas. It is also called "catharsis". If the plot of the paintings is not an aggressive content, then it causes aggression and at the viewer. It should be noted that the paintings, portraits carry different energy. Sometimes the artist, without knowing, "loads" the contemplator of his paintings by the catharsis, from which he is released in the process of creating a canvas.

Everyone knows the fact of vandalism associated with the picture of Ilya Repin "Ivan Grozny kills his son." But few know that the Repin did not have any time to write a "live" blood, teaching through the fingers of the killer's father. And then the artist in the middle saw her on the face of a woman who fell under the carriage, rushed home and revived by several strokes on the canvas.
When the blood of people or animals flows out of the body, then in the first minutes of this process, it highlights the emission of a special force.
The expiration of the blood, a crazy view of the killer and influenced the psyche of Student Balashov: he was in a rustling of furious, the famous rope of Repin. The criminal was then admitted insane. The poet Maximillian Voloshin in speech at the trial about what happened accused Repin is that he subconsciously invested aggression into the picture. It was she who shakeped the patient and vanishing imagination of Balashov. Then Voloshin did not listen, accusing in the uniformity of his theory, but the story was repeated in the 80s - this time with the picture of Rembrandt "Dana". It was almost completely destroyed by sulfuric acid an insane fanatic from the Baltic States.

Alexander Benoit, who preached the freedom of creativity, a cosmopolitan on conviction, suddenly sharply opposed Malevich's cosmopolitan, calling him the "black square" of that icon, which is offered in return Madonna. Malevich woke up famous in 1915, when I put up at the exhibition "0.10" - "Black Square" - the last picture in the world, as he himself called it. On this art ended. Malevich died in 1935 from cancer. Urn with ashes installed in a clean field near the cottage in Nemchinovka. On the grave - put a cube with a black square.

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Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel and his demon

After this picture, he was talking about it all over the world. From anyone's not famous student, he turned into a cult artist, an icon of his time.
We are talking about Mikhail Vrubel. He decided on unheardly causing and bold act - challenged the long-time ban does not depict a demon.
He made the main character of their paintings by a demon, but for it was waiting for Kara. Vrubel could not even imagine that the curses are happening and the demon will wore his Creator consciousness.
The picture "The daemon who sits" will see the Moscow public and the next morning, Mikhail Vrubel wakes up famous. And after many years, the same newspapers that praised him will write: "The demon kills his author."
The picture hung him at the exhibition, but the demon was as if inseparable from the soul of the artist, and when Vrubel tried to break and destroy him in himself, he was in a crazy house, where he died.
But did this mystical connection really existed with the picture? For what Mikhail Vrubel actually paid?

None of the devils had had a live prototype previously created by artists. And the demon Mikhail Vrubel had, because he was written from a real person, besides his beloved woman.
Drawing his demon, the artist pursued a concrete goal - to take revenge on this woman. One single picture of the picture made Vrubel famous for the whole world by the artist.
His daemon knows today every student of the Art Academy. But few people guess - the picture had a specific prototype.
It was a woman, a Kiev woman, and the meeting with her did Vrubel ingenious artist and a deeply unhappy person. Vrubel, when he arrived in Kiev, was, figuratively speaking, nobody.
He was yesterday's academy student, and without exaggeration to say that all three turning points of his character: as a person, as a sick person and as a great artist, were formed in Kiev. This rocky woman played a considerable role in this, which broke out in his soul to this woman.

In Kiev, an incredible luck has led to anyone of the famous artist Mikhail Vrubel. In 1860, a wonderful phenomenon had happened in one of the temples of Kiev. In the Kirillovsky Church, the old paintings suddenly appeared.
These unique frescoes priest found randomly. During the Great Service from the Wall, a piece of plaster fell off and everyone saw that an angel was watching at the flock. Then the priest disconnected from the wall another piece of plaster and under it was an old painting, which, as it turned out, was over 700 years.
These frescoes needed to restore it urgently. After all, being under air access, unique paintings could collapse. But it was not so easy to find a wizard for this.
Artists one after another refused to work this work. And the main reason was that the Kirillov Church had bad, very uncomfortable glory.
The Kirillov Church was located on the territory of a psychiatric hospital. In essence, one who will work in this church will actually work in a mental hospital.
For a long time they could not find for the Cyril Restorer Church. As long as the non-famous student of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Mikhail Vrubel, has not appeared in Kiev.
A modest slender young man in a dark suit, which was invited by famous art critic Adrian Prakhov to restore mysterious paintings found in the Kirillov Church. And he was not mistaken. Vrubel brilliantly coped with his task, but both Vrubel and Prakhov will have to pay a too expensive price.
The famous Hospital "Pavlovka", where they have long brought and left people with mental illness, blissful and oborudy. Kievans always managed this place to the party. In those days, mentally ill people were not considered patients. They were equated with criminals and were thrown over the borders of society.
This was the place in the days of the reign of Catherine II. But in the XIX century, psychiatry becomes the subject of scientific research. Pavlovka patients will start learning doctors. When Vrubel arrived here, a terrible prison for crazy already turned into a hospital.
But her boring glory remained the same terrible. Kievans saw that strange people with insane and terrible eyes walk on the territory of Pavlovka under the supervision of Sanitars. They jump, cry and terribly laugh. When Vrubel first entered the territory of the hospital, he was struck by the eyes of patients. For many years, he will not be able to forget their expression and will again and reproduce on the canvases.
But first Vrubel will not pay attention to prejudice. For him, this is a phenomenal opportunity. After all, he, the fourth course student, trust valuable frescoes, which were already 700 years old. It begins restoration work on the first day, without even visiting the apartment, which Prakhov suggested him, and just asks to send his things there.
Vrubel himself was taken to the Kirillov Church. And when Vrubel rose to Rishtovka, he felt a mystical trembling - another world opened in front of him: they watched the licks of the saints, who worshiped people 700 years ago. Vrubel redraws the frescoes into the album, scrupulously discharges every line of the face, every fold of clothing. In order not to spend time on food, he takes with him on the rishtovka water jug \u200b\u200band a piece of bread.

The first weeks of work he almost does not come out of the Kirillovsky Church and responds to other people only when they rise to Rishtovka to file the artist a new pencil or knead paints. But in one day an unusual visitor comes to church - elegantly dressed woman with a covered head. It stands for a long time at the bottom and trying to attract attention. And when, in the end, the artist is distracted from work, she powerfully asks him to descend.
Externally, she was far from beauty. Low growth, had a native figure, but she had amazing huge eyes of an incredible size and the preserved photographs confirm this. And the expression of these eyes, the look when she watched, could really charm and fascinating. The woman called the wife of the customer Emily Prahova. She came to invite masters to ordinary family dinner.
And Vrubel will forever remember her domineering tone and proud posture. Later he will write - he did not know then that she came to change his life to one single invitation. That evening a modest student falls into a fairy tale. The fact is that Vrubel has grown in a harsh officer family, in which, if a secular reception occurs, it is necessary for all the rules of etiquette.
The house of Pukhov seems to him a fantastic place, the territory of freedom. Everything was different here than in the family of his parents and what he was accustomed to in childhood. It was a bohemian family that many creative people visited. Most Vrubel struck the mistress herself.
Emilia is 32 years old, she has three children. It could not be called beautiful, but Mikhail Vrubel had never seen a woman to behave like that. Emilia Prahova with his manners did not fit into any framework of that time.
From the first meeting, the image of this woman will forever remain in the imagination of Vrubel. And it is this image that will lead the artist to the unheard of glory and to a lifelong curse. Emilia was natural in his manifestations and not always its actions corresponded to the rules for the behavior of the society and the time.
It was an eccentric woman, extravagant, which, on the one hand, knew several languages, and on the other hand, could afford to pour the jug of water on his head simply because she did not like the replica of this guest.
Nothing special: she just supported the conversation with him - witty and freely. But after this dating, Vrubel lost interest in the restorer work. Holy and Angels of Kievan Rus will be indifferent to him.
A few days later, a modest and demanding master will turn into a scandalous France, it will begin to dress defiantly and behave strangely, and then make an act for which all his life will pay.
Apprentices and assistants do not recognize the artist. He is less and less appearing on the rishtovka. For the customer, Prahova makes up an excuse - he needs to think over the manner of the Virgin, and he himself considers earned money. Prakhov pays Vrubel Kopeych - after all, at the restoration of the frescoes, the urban power has almost allocated anything.

But Vrubel is still. He will leave all the money in the clothing store and ask the seller to offer him a shirt out of the finest silk, from Paris himself. The seller is surprised: they are why Vrubel is such an expensive shirt that is suitable for the governor, in the store there are many other cheaper shirts.
But Vrubel insists on his own, and in the evening dresses as a real Frant and goes to Prakhov. Emilia, instead of assessing his elegance, unexpectedly reading the artist for the waste of extra money. Vrubel with difficulty hangs up until the end of dinner, and then the bullet jumps out the door and runs away.
After this case, Vrubel did not appear in the Kirillovsky Church for two days. And when, in the end, it comes to work, then carries a package. At the corner gives the package of a beggar and quickly goes on. When the beggar unfolds, then sees a beautiful silk shirt in it. It was the first oddity of Vrubel.
In twenty years, after his death, Prakhov will remember a whole chain of such oddities and say that they say then the disease has already begun. But did it really be the first signs of insoluction and mental illness, or simply the emotions of a loved man?

Again and again, Vrubel is trying to attract the attention of the pox. Somehow, going home after dinner, he gives her watercolor. But Emilia does not accept a gift. She explains that it is too big for her honor. So beautiful things place in the museum.
She wanted to praise his talent, but Vrubel flashes from resentment. He tears watercolor on the pieces and throws the hostess under his feet, and after a few days it returns to Pucham, and this time with the painted green paint nose.
When he suggests that he accidentally stained, Vrubel in response only laughs and explains that henceforth this is a new fashion - women wear makeup, and men draw noses. Someone is suitable red, and it is green. Children laugh with a joke, and Emilia again does not understand the artist. She reports him for children's fun and demands to immediately wash off the paint.
Vrubel obediently fulfills the order, and then makes Emilia, a strange and unexpected proposal - asks for permission to draw it in the image of the Most Holy Virgin - and it agrees.
Outline survived, and on the first of them the face of completely Emilia Prahova - the eyes and nose are still human. The next sketch, as the result of the search, and shows the canonical embodiment of the Virgin Mary. True, the eyes are even more and in them another expression.
And in the final version, on the icon, the eyes are already half of the face and in them longing. Sketches of Vrubel draws in a strange state - the Pospekh sketching one drawing, erases it and sketches another pattern. Another sketch shows Emilia and, if she has some comments, redraws him again.
It was their only intimacy. Only so, drawing it, he could completely take possession of this woman. The sketches were obtained by such sensual that when Adriyan Prakhov saw them, he could not stand. In the face of the Virgin, he will recognize the face of his wife. Vrubel allowed himself too much and Prakhov decides to punish the height.
But I just can not drive it out, because work is not yet completed in the Kirillovsky Church, but in turn of the painting of the Vladimir Cathedral. Vrubel - a manager of restoration work and is responsible for all full responsibility. Therefore, Prakhov decides not to quarrel with the artist, but simply temporarily remove it from Emilia.
He must disappear from their home, for who knows what kind of relationships were at his wife and the artist while working on sketches. Therefore, Prakhov gives them. Under the pretext of studying the art of great Italian masters and the completion of works on the icons of the Kirillov Church, he sends Vrubel to Venice.

Mikhail Vrubel is hard to survive parting with Emily. He does not techite the beauty of Italy, his heart is broken.
Every day he writes his beloved letter and does not receive answers. The artist can express his desperate longing, the artist can express only in the icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which works over every day.
Comparing the icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the image of Emilia Prahova in the photo, the naked look it can be seen that this is the same face. In her hands she holds a little Christ, who, like two drops of water similar to the younger daughter of Pukhov.

The legend says that when an icon was installed in the iconostasis, a woman entered the Kirillov Church. She wanted to pray to the Blessed Virgin, but when she began his knees before the icon, suddenly screamed - Emilia Prahova was watched with the iconostasis. Like this? Is it really to pray for her neighbor?
When the icon saw Adrian Prakhov, he understood everything - in Venice, the artist did not forget his wife's face. Not seduced by the magical images of the Canonical Madonn of the Masters of the Renessance, but wrote Emily.
In the anger, the customer of works on the restoration of the Kirillovsky Church and the employer of Vrubel Adrian Prakhov rupts with him a new one, already a prisoner contract with the next Church - Vladimir Cathedral and gives him the characteristic of the "unreliable artist".
And immediately after that, the artistic council rejects all sketches of Vrubel. For the week, the artist loses almost all orders. Gallery refuses from his work. And Vrubel turns out to be without livelihood.

But all this does not matter for him. Worst of all that he no longer wants to see Emilia. Survive this Vrubel could not. Contemporaries remember: "He seems to break off from the chain, drinks dusty, sleeping in the brothels, collects strange people around himself - Gypsy, homeless, drunkards."
Lears a huge amount of five thousand rubles and arrange a rampant banquet, but while the crowd drinks the artist for money, closes in his room and cruelly cuts his hands with a knife. Physical pain, he wants to kill a stronger pain - pain from lost love.
In the morning, his friends find Vrubel in their own apartment bloody and unconscious. And when they lead to a sense, they report that he has made huge debts and his lenders to come to court.
Friends are trying to help the artist. In his apartment there is only one unsold picture - "prayer about the cup." Contemporaries called her ingenious creation. To protect this picture from an uncontrolled attack of an artist's wrath, friends find the buyer. Famous Kiev patter on the artist pays the artist 5 thousand rubles and wants to pick up the picture the next day.
But when the next day he comes, it sees: "The prayer is destroyed. Instead of a religious plot on the canvas, a circus actress is depicted. On the eve of Vrubel saw this woman in the circus and decided to immediately write it. It did not have a clean web, so he painted her over the sold picture.
Now, to pay off creditors, a brilliant artist is forced to take for any dirty work. He works as a cleaner in Kabak, the malarier on construction. All earned money spends on drinking and prostitutes. But even this does not quench his pain.
"I cut myself with a knife. Will you understand? I loved a woman - she did not love me. Even loved, but a lot of things hurt her to understand me. I suffered, but when I cut myself, the sufferings were glad," from the letters of Vrubel. In the end, the exhausted master decides to take revenge on the brutal woman.
Once he laughed at people who believed in the mystical power of the paintings above the prototype. And now he decides to use his gift, like a weapon, and draw a demon with Emilia Prahova.
The first demon who saw only the father of Vrubel and who found her son in a terribly sick, feverish state while working on this picture, argued that this demon was like a sensual evil woman. The demon turned out terrible so that Vrubel himself was frightened to his creation and destroyed the drawing - broke it into pieces, but it was too late.
Vrubel broke the ban to never draw, do not describe and not play the devil. He drew a demon with the features of a real man, and for it, a terrible car was waiting for him.

In Moscow, Vrubel went in a painful state, but surprisingly calm. Here it is met for former classmates. They organized an artistic circle in the city. Savva Mamontov is patronized - famous Moscow patron.
Mammoths heard about Kirillovsky frescoes and happily agreed to support the artist. Vrubel seems to be all over. He with joy is taken for a new job. But after a few months the Kiev delusional nightmare is returned to his life.
In Moscow, it was then that the anniversary collection of Lermontov is preparing for the publication and the illustrator was needed. Vrubel is invited to illustrate the poem "Demon". The first thing that sees the artist is his Kiev drawing and the ban, which he broke. You can not repeat this error.
Then he was lucky, it seems that Kara went around him, but for the second time it is impossible to risk. But actually the choice has already been made. Vrubel refused to offer, but the image of the demon begins to pursue him. The artist complains his friends - he is worried about the same alarming dream: every night comes a beautiful angel with sad eyes.
The artist is trying to remember where he saw these eyes. Emilia Prahova or crazy near the Kirillovsky Church. Savva Mamontov advises him: the easiest way to get rid of dreams is to draw an image. He should agree with the proposal of publishers to illustrate Lermontov's poem and display angel from her dreams.
So Vrubel created a picture "Sitting Demon". This picture forever changed the idea of \u200b\u200bpainting. The demon will be considered an example for imitating the most famous artists of our time.

It took 25 years and Vrubel was again among the insane. Only once he looked at patients from the outside of this lattice, and now he himself became one of them. Vrubel ceases to recognize their relatives, does not even remember who he is. It is translated from the clinic to the clinic. And in each of them, he leaves whole pile of drawings. These drawings are not at all like the drawings of the madman - all of them are light and peaceful.
Already after the death of the artist, the doctor who treated Vrubel wrote in his diary: "Vrubel died seriously sick man. But, as an artist, he was healthy. Deep healthy." How can this be? Modern psychologists claim that his drawings were treated by Vrubel, so he restrained the disease. Intuitively invented that 30 years after his death, they will call artherapy, that is, treatment with art.
Such treatment cannot defeat the disease, but it can significantly slow down its current and development. And some patients really get better so much that they are returned from the hospital home almost healthy. In the time of Vrubel artherapy, there has not yet existed.
In the clinic, Vrubel constantly draws landscapes outside the window, doctors, neighbors around the chamber, and the incredible - vrubel happens to force the disease to retreat. He comes out of the hospital and goes where for the first time he met his future wife - to the Opera House.
Like on the day of their acquaintance, Natalia began to performed a major role. After the presentation, Vrubel went to his wife in the dressing room, took her hands and thanked. It was the last time he saw his wife. A few weeks later, Vrubel lost sight.

His last picture "Portrait of the poet Brysov" Vrubel never managed to add.

Blind and touch he will try to erase a part of the background to fix it, but accidentally erases part of the figure. Sanitars catch a valuable picture literally from under the author's hands, and then regret their act: after that, Vrubel will never take a brush again.
For another four years he will live blind. The artist does not recognize: he was elected academician of art in absentia. The exhibitions with his paintings travel throughout Europe and receive world glory and recognition. And the press will appear publishing that the demon destroyed his author.
Already blind Vrubel will try to end with the authority of his demon - to kill himself. But he died of acute lung inflammation. The Vrubel demon did not stop at this. He he took his eyesight and mind, and his fatal love Emily Prahova - family and peace of mind.
When Vrubel died, her, the Kiev Grand Dama, the organizer of points and lush techniques, accused that it was to blame for a madness of genius. Emilia will not stand this pressure. She will leave her husband and move to the province, and there, forgotten by everyone and lonely, dies.

Hollandets Peter Bruegel Sr. wrote "worship of Magi" for two years.

The model for the Virgin Mary became his cousin, a barren woman who beat her husband for it. It was she who caused a bad aura picture. The cloth bought collectors four times and after that, for 10-12 years, children were not born in families. In 1637, the picture buys Jacob Van Campen. By the time he had already had three descendants, because the curse was not frightened.

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Evil spirit of executed criminal

Evil spirit of executed criminal
Pictures with deadly energy, always many antiques. One of them in Fulham antique shop somehow bought a resident of London Dorothy Jenkins.
It was a portrait of a young woman in a dress made of red velvet. The canvas Square was equal to four square feet, and traces from fire were noticeable. Under the image stood a short signature - "Antoine".

The picture immediately brought the problem into the house. First, the attacks of the nervous disorder felt the Dorothy itself. Being a smart person, she suggested that her illness is somehow connected with the portrait hanging in her room. To finally be convinced of this, Dorothy offered her son Eduard for a couple of days to translate the picture in his room. The result did not slow down to affect:
Eduard - a calm, melancholic young man at times began to feel that the waves of unmanaged wrath rolling on him.
Dorothy applied for consultation to his friend - the researcher of the occult phenomena Philip floor. He came to a meeting with the famous London Medium Ann Quegt. Paul did not inform her of all the information regarding the problem under study, simply asked her to "expose psychometry" some items in one of the districts of London.
Together with parapsychologists, the Deputy Editor of the "News of Parapsychology" Leslie Howard, three newspaper reporters and a photographer who had to capture the entire research process to the film came to the house of Dorothy Jenkins.
To make the results of the experiment more objective, the floor spent the medium straight to the strange portrait, saying, naturally, he would like to inspect completely "neutral" items in this house. However, Anne Twigg immediately felt near the picture of an intolerable horror, fell into the trance and became inhaulously talking about some confused events among themselves, among whom were the sound of music, and a blood vision, and a description of some raw filled with rats of the prison chamber And also the gallows, a young woman with loose hair, the executioner and a large cluster of people on the city square.
Already after the experiment, Anne claimed that as soon as she entered the room, he saw a bright outbreak of light, moved from one place to another. The point in which this flash originated was the picture of Antoine. He found out that the picture was captured by a portrait of a woman, most likely of noble origin, which in the distant XVIII century after the accusation in some terrible crime was appreciated on the city square.
However, she didn't calm down her spirit after death and settled in the portrait forever, adversely affecting him on the health of the painting owners. Naturally, Dorothy Jenkins wanted to immediately get rid of the damned portrait.
However, Ann TVig sentenced it from such an increasing step. "The Spirit may be offended," the medium stated, "and the consequences of this will be unpredictable. Therefore, the most neutral option would be transferred to the picture somewhere in the attic or to the chunchelan and left there forever." Dorothy did it and since then neither her nor the son of Eduard an evil spirit bothered no longer.

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Ghosts were swirling.

The one who watched a fairy tale about Harry Potter remembers, probably, as the ghosts of the dead people who are constantly living in their portraits, regularly enjoyed the school for young wizards, and sometimes even sled. According to not the fabulous employees of museums, such cases occur in real life. So, in 1996, in the Museum of Prado in Madrid, in front of the stunned tourists from Japan, from the picture of Velasquez, infanta, and ... Perved to the floor! Then, naturally, returned back to the picture.

And in the Museum of the OR-SE in Paris, Renoarovskaya Beauty was shocked for ten minutes a group of schoolchildren and their guide, spreading their feet ... It is noteworthy that in both cases the ghosts were seen only those who were in close proximity to the paintings. The rest of the visitors did not notice anything special.
... As many of the media Museums recently reported, in one of the museums of New York, almost before the closure, when there were almost no people left in the hall, the ghost of a young man in the hunting suit and ... strangled a visitor standing nearby. Museum carakers arrived at the crime scene when the ghost has already returned to his place in the portrait ...

In my opinion, this is already busting

Russian scientists, exploring the "phantom" images of paintings, came to the conclusion that the "ninth tree" of Aivazovsky also possesses a powerful negative aura and a number of other famous canvases. And when studying the energy of the "black square" of Kazimir Malevich, one of the scientists ... Lost consciousness. "This is one big thicker of dark strength and energy. As if in the underworld, they painted the picture," the scientist admitted when he was with difficulty led to a sense. About the picture Malevich "Black Square" spoke earlier and say today. And not only in order to fade the price. So far, no one knows what this square means, and that Malevich wanted to express them. "Black Square" is a "black hole" in painting, suction positive, and ejecting negative energy, which is strongly acting on the psyche of the viewer. However, the discussions around the "black square" do not subside.

They said that the artist sold the soul to the devil - all people depicted in the paintings shortly after the positiveness. Higgins were the first. The artist does not allow an interview, does not comment on the tragic fate of his models. It periodically calls some kind of state person, whose face often flashes in the newspapers: "You know, I plan to make your portrait ..." And the deadly frightened millionaire pays the round sum only for it to do this ...
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There are still pictures of mystical: young beauties depicted on them, who died after writing pictures, possess some power capable of shorten the life of the owners of these paintings. Old collectors, watching a long time for the life of the paintings, noticed that the picture seems to affect the space around and transfers the events depicted on it in real life.

The halo of secrets stretches for the paintings of the great Russian artist Kramsky Ivan Nikolayevich (1837-1887). The famous painting "Unknown" is a portrait of a really existing beautiful woman. The portrait of more than a dozen years old, the portrait of the audience, a slightly contempt, light blush on the cheeks, slightly curved lips as if expressing her inaccessibility for others who are captivated by her beauty. It seems that the lady surrounded by the exciting smell of mystics, riddles, slowly passing through Nevsky Prospect.

The current critics and simply contemplates believe that in front of them - a typical aristocrat to the tips of the nails, confident in herself and its beauty, but the audience, which are contemporaries of the shown ladies, on the robe and the tinted face immediately determined that she was a representative of the so-called ladies, that is, Simply containment. It gives it a combination of at the same time two fashionable things, which was unacceptable bust in the robe of decent ladies of those times. In addition to clothes, a woman still issues a makeup: a blush on the cheeks, lipstick on the lips and explicitly supposed eyebrows, which was considered an indecent matter in relation to secular ladies.

The artist literally threw questions at that time: who is this beautiful stranger, does it really exist or is it the creation of an artist's imagination? What Kramskoy answered with a smile: "Of course it is real, real, existing on the canvas." Spectators, chopping from overwhelming emotions, shared their impressions and wished at least somehow approach the rayster the mystery of her beauty.

Only one person did not admire the picture of the beauty, on the contrary, carefully visiting the scornful look of the stranger, made a sharp turn and, without looking back, left the hall, where the portrait of the "Stranger" was shown. This person was the famous collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov. The artist Kramskaya was strongly led by such a collector behavior and sold his picture with a small collector. And Mr. Tretyakov, having a bitter experience behind the shoulders, knew that portraits of beautiful fatal women would not bring anything good.

Among the collectors of paintings, there is a belief that the beauties depicted on the canvases of famous artists take the vitality in people looking at them, because it is known that the picture of Leonardo "Joconda" and paintings with women Titian and Botticelli people call pictures of vampires, and fanatically tuned spectators They are constantly trying to spoil these pictures, cut or even destroy.

The picture "Unknown" also suffered a sad fate: at first she got to an unknown collector, then, as if without calming down, she passed from one hand to others. Finding at the next exhibition, the picture called heavy gossip that she had already brought many misfortunes to their owners. But really a terrible event occurred at the very creator of the ill-fated picture: it did not pass the year after writing an "unknown," as Kramsky died two sons. The artist killed by grief expresses the depth of the tragedy in writing the next masterpiece - "Rezazynaya Mountain": his crying wife standing among an empty room is depicted on the canvas. Realizing that the picture with such a frank expression of grief, no one wants to buy, Kramskaya passes her free of charge to the Tretyakov Gallery. But Mr. Tretyakov, who heard a decent and responsive man, handed over a solid fee for the canvas family of the artist.

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In the history of painting, a case about the fate of the niece of the brilliant Italian composer N. Pachchini, whose portrait was written in 1832 a beautiful artist Karl Pavlovich Bullov (1799-1852).

In the painting "Horseman" depicts a young Giovannina Pachchini, elegantly farts on a tonkogo horse. In Rome, they were told that young Giovannin was lucky, because after the death of uncle, I took her to raise the rich Russian countess Yulia Samoilov, but happiness lasted for a short time - the girl drowned the horse.

A religious painting was permitted in the Catholic Church, an iconist with an even more rigid image frame was recognized in Orthodoxy.

In Catholic art, often the starting point for creating the image of the Virgin was the appearance of any woman. There was no exception to the "Sicstinskaya Madonna" of Rafael, in the features of which the image of the Mother of God, how many captured by the Margaret Lui (Lui, Luchchi) is recognized as Christianians.

It is hardly for the first time for the history of the visual art of the era of the Renaissance, the Mother of God was depicted not in his divine appearance. A complete discrepancy is found with generally accepted images of Madonna - underlined simplicity poses, figures, faces, clothes, hairstyles, no shoes.

It seems that even depicted next to the Madon Pope Sixt II, in the legs of which there is a papal thiara, a symbol of spiritual power, and the Holy Varvara, wearing much of the most elegant and luxurious Mother of God, are somewhat surprised by her human defenselessness, openness and completely earthly species of the peasant girl. No in the Sicstinian Madonna neither the royal crown, nor luxurious clothes, does not recreate it majestically on the throne; Even childish, swollen eyes of Madonna, as if opposed to wise view of the Baby of Christ.

The finished canvas gave rise to a lot of disputes in the church environment, the customers refused to accept the "Sicstinian Madonna", finding the picture almost a heretical. From the point of view of Catholic priests, such an image was sinful in essence, which, of course, did not diminish his artistic value.

We have reached our days about Margaret Luti is very scargly and more similar to legends. Her father was a bullshnik, he moved from Siena to Rome with his family. And in Rome Rafael Santi met Margaret. During the acquaintance, Margaret gave his consent to pose an artist to create a fresco "Amur and Psyche". Young people fell in love with each other, but her father was against their meetings. Then Rafael bought Margaret at the Bowl, paying three thousand gold coins for his excellent beloved.

Twelve years in a row (according to other sources - six years) Rafael and Margaret lived together, she accompanied him in all trips and was a fitter for many cloths of a great painter, helping to create Madonn's images, holy and mythical beauties. Contemporaries emphasized that Rafael did not part with her until his death, could not work if she was not nearby.

Opinions of researchers about the lives of Margaret Luti are completely opposite. Some claim that she did not differ in loyalty and often paid attention to the customers of the works of Rafael and his students. One of the famous gossip also states that Rafael died in bed with his wrong beloved from a heart attack.

Others, among whom Paul Muratov, indicate that these were sublime love relationships. The marriage of the artist and daughter of the Boobnik banned the Vatican and hoping to make Rafael the court painter organized his marriage with a niece of one of the cardinals, but she was rejected by Raphael. Known and the fact that the sobbing Margaret was removed from the room of the dying Rafael, when the Papal Messenger arrived to him.

The fate of Margarent Luti after the death of her beloved and the patron woman is also unclear. Evil languages \u200b\u200bargue that she was inherited from Rafael a large amount of money and became the famous Rome by Kurtizan. Muratov argues that Margaret Luti gone the monastery, as evidenced by the relevant entry, which stars about the ride in the nun "Widow of Raphael".

Almost the next day after the completion of the work on their portraits, the Composer Mussorgsky died, the surgeon of pirogors, politician Stolypin. Writer Vsevolod Garshin rushed into the span of the stairs after the Repin wrote from him an etude head Tsarevich for the painting "Ivan Grozny kills his son." Almost all the friends he captured on another famous canvase - "Cossacks write a letter to Turkish Sultan," for various reasons died immediately after the work was first exhibited. Frightened, the artist crushed the image of his own son on it.

Fine arts were always considered closely connected with the mystical sphere. After all, any image is an energy fingerprint, especially if we are talking about portraits. It is believed that they are able to influence not only at those who are written with, but also on other people. For examples, it is not necessary to go far: we turn to Russian painting of the XIX - the beginning of the twentieth century.

Mystic portrait of Maria Lopukhina

Delightful beautiful beauties who look at us with the webs of great painters will forever remain exactly such: young, charming and full vital energy. However, the true fate of beautiful simulators is not always so envy, as it may seem at first glance. This is very easy to ensure the example of the famous portrait of Maria Lopukhina, who came out from under the brush of Vladimir Borovikovsky.

Maria Lopukhin, originating from the county of Tolsti, immediately after his own wedding (she was 18 years old) posing Vladimir Borovikovsky. The portrait was ordered by her spouse. At the time of his writing, Maria looked just great. Her face radiated so much charm, spirituality and dreaminess ... no doubt could arise in the fact that the charming simulator expects a long and happy life. The incomprehensible fact, but Maria died from Chakhotka, when she was only 23 years old.

Much later, Poet Polonsky will write "The beauty of her Borovikovsky saved ...". However, immediately after the death of a young beauty, this opinion would be divided not all. After all, at that time, in Moscow, conversations went about the fact that Mary Lopukhina was to blame for the death of Maria.

From this painting began to shive, as if from the ghost. It was believed that if a young person would look at her, she would soon die. According to some information, the mysterious portrait ruined about ten girls. They said that Father Mary, a famous mystic, after his daughter died, lured her spirit into this canvas.

However, almost a hundred years later, Pavel Tretyakov was not afraid and acquired this visual image for his own gallery. After that, the picture "Primdel". But what was it - empty gossip, a strange coincidence or for a mysterious phenomenon lies something more? Unfortunately, the answer to this question we will most likely not know.

Ilya Repin - the thunderstorm of modern?

It is unlikely that anyone will argue that Ilya Efimovich Repin is one of the greatest Russian painters. But there is one strange and tragic circumstance: many who have fallen out to be his attenders, soon died. Among them are Mussorgsky, Pisem, Pirogov, Italian actor Mersey D'Argeanto. Hardly the artist took over the portrait of Fedor Tyutchev, he also died. Of course, in all cases, there were objective reasons for death, "but there are coincidences ... Even the hefty men, who posted the Repin for the Burlaci cloth on the Volga, they say, prematurely gave God to God.

"Burlaki on the Volga", 1870-1873

However, the most terrible story happened to the picture "Ivan Grozny and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581," which in our time is more famous called "Ivan Grozny kills his son." Even balanced people when looking at the canvas became not in itself: too realistic written scene of the murder, too much on the canvas of the blood, which seems real.

The cloth exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery made a strange impression on visitors. Some in front of the picture were sobbed, others fell into a stupor, hysterical seizures happened to the third. And the young icon painter Abram Balashov on January 16, 1913 cut the canvas with a knife. He was sent to the hospital for the mentally ill, where he died. The canvas managed to restore.

"Ivan Grozny kills his son", 1883-1885

It is known that Repin was thinking for a long time before being taken for the painting about Ivan Grozny. And not in vain. The artist of Myasoedov, from which the image of the king was written, soon in anger almost finished off his young son, who was also called Ivan, like the killed Tsarevich. The image of the latter was written from the writer of Vsevolod Garshin, who subsequently came crazy and committed suicide, rushing into a staircase ...

Murder that was not

The story that Ivan Grozny is a son of a son - just a myth.

It is believed that Ivan Grozny killed his son in a fit of anger with a blow of the priest in the temple. The reasons for different researchers are called different: from household quarrel to political friction. Meanwhile, none of the sources directly say that Tsarevich and the heir to the throne was killed by his own father!

In the "Piskarevsky Chronicler" it is said: "At 12 o'clock in the summer of the summer, 7090 November on 17, ... Pressing Tsarevich John John. The Novgorod Fourth Chronicle reports: "The same (7090) year is pressed by Tsarevich John John for the uterine in Sloboda." The cause of death is not called.
In the 60s of the last century, the graves of John of the Terrible and his son were opened. At Tsarevich's skull, there were no damage characteristic of brain injury. Consequently, there was no sylidery?! But where did the legend of him come from then?

Antonio Possevino - a representative of the Vatican in Russia, the times of Ivan the Terrible and the Great University

The author is the monk-Jesuit Anthony Possevin (Antonio Possevino), sent to Moscow Ambassador from Pope of Roman with a proposal to the Orthodox Church to move to the power of the Vatican. The idea did not meet support from the Russian king. Possevin, Meanwhile, allegedly became an eyewittress of the family scandal. The sovereign was angry with his pregnant woman, wife of the son of Ivan, for the "obscene appearance" - did not forget to wear the belt, did not put on only one shirt, whereas it was made to wear four. Sgorie, the beet began to beat the unfortunate staff. Tsarevich came to his wife: before that, his father had already sent two of his first wives to the monastery, who could not conceive him. John Jr. was not rapidly afraid that he would lose and the third - her father would just kill her. He rushed to the father, and he hit the stuff in the enclosure and struck the son of the temple. However, besides the assevine, no source confirms this version, although it later, Other historians and Karamzin later picked up.

• Modern researchers suggest that Jesuit came up with a legend in retaliation for the fact that he had to return to the Papal court "Nonolono Bread".

Under the exhumation in the bone tissues of Tsarevich, the remains of poisons were found. This may indicate that John Jr. died from poisoning (which is not uncommon for those times), and not at all from the impact of a solid subject!

Nevertheless, in the film Repin, we see exactly the version of the son. It is executed with such an extraordinary truth-like that you involuntarily believe: everything really happened. From here, of course, the "murderous" energy.

And again Repin distinguished

Self-portrait Repin

Somehow Repein ordered a huge monumental canvas "Solemn meeting of the State Council". The picture was completed by the end of 1903. And in 1905 the first Russian revolution was killed, during which the heads of officials depicted on the canvase flew. Some lost posts and ranks, others and at all paid life: Minister V.K. Plevie and Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich, the former Governor General of Moscow, were killed by terrorists.

In 1909, the artist on request of the Saratov city Duma wrote a portrait barely finished his job as Stolypin was shot dead in Kiev.

Who knows - Maybe if Ilya Repin is not so talented, the tragedies could not happen. Back in the XV century, a scientist, philosopher, alchemist and magician Cornelius Agrippa Nettesheim wrote: "Fear painter's brush - his portrait can be more alive than the original."

P. A. Stolypin. Portrait of I. Repin (1910)

Mystical painting "Stranger" Ivan Kramsky

The picture surprisingly survived two periods of massive interest in herself, and in completely different epochs. For the first time, after writing in 1883, she was considered the embodiment of aristocracy and was very popular at the sophisticated Petersburg public.

Suddenly, another surge of interest in the "unknown" occurred in the second half of the 20th century. The apartments were decorated with cut out from the journals of the work of Kramsky, and the "unknown" copies were one of the most popular orders from artists at all levels. True, for some reason the picture was already known as the "stranger", possibly influenced by the block of the block. Even candy "Stranger" were created with the picture of Kramsky on the box. So the erroneous name of the work is finally "entered into life."

Perennial studies of Togo, "Who is depicted in the picture of Kramsky", did not give results. According to one of the versions, the prototype of the "aristocratic symbol" was the peasant named Matrön, married to the nobleman Bestumev.

"Stranger" Ivan Kramsky is one of the most mysterious masterpieces of Russian painting.

At first glance, there is nothing mystical in the portrait: the beauty rides on the Nevsky Prospect in an open stroller.

Many were considered the heroine of the Kram aristocratic, but a velvet coat and a stylish shovel hat, a trendy, trimmed with fur and blue satin ribbons, coupled with gritted eyebrows, lipstick on her lips and induced blush on the cheeks, give it to the lady of the then semifice. Not a prostitute, but obviously the content of some kind or rich man.

However, when the artist was asked if this woman exists in reality, he just grinned and shrugged. In any case, nobody met the original.
Meanwhile, Pavel Tretyakov refused to acquire a portrait for his gallery - maybe there was a believed that portraits of beauties "suck forces" from living people.

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskaya

"Stranger" began traveling by private collections. And very soon gained bad fame. The first owner of her owner threw his wife, the second burned down the house, the third went bankrupt. All these misfortunes attributed the fatal picture.

I did not escape the curse and Kramskaya himself. Less than a year after the creation of the "unknown" one after another, two of his son died.

"Damned" the same picture went abroad. They say, and there she chined all sorts of troubles with their owners. In 1925, the "stranger" returned to Russia and still took its place in the Tretyakov Gallery. Since then, no excesses have no longer happened.

Maybe the thing is that the portrait from the very beginning should have taken the place-like place?