The most beautiful portraits in the world. The image of a woman in the pictures of great artists

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About the picture We first know two things: its author and, possibly, the history of the canvas. But about the fate of those who look at us from the canvas, we know not so much.

website I decided to tell about women whose faces are familiar to us well, and their stories are not.

Zhanna Samari
Auguste Renoir, "Portrait of an actress Zhanna Samari", 1877

Actress Zhanna Samari, though he could not become a star of the scene (she played mostly maids), but she was lucky in something else: for some time she lived near the workshop of Renoire, who in 1877-1878 wrote four of her portrait, thereby glorifying much more What it could make her acting career. Zhanna played in performances from 18 years old, at 25 she married and gave birth to three children, then even wrote a children's book. But this charming lady lived, unfortunately, not long: in 33 years I got sick with abdominal typhoid and died.

Churchilia Gallerani
Leonardo da Vinci, "Lady with the mountain",
1489-1490

Hisliily Gallerani was a girl from a noble Italian family, which at the age of 10 (!) Has already been engaged. However, when the girl was 14, the engagement for unknown reasons was terminated, and the churchille was sent to the monastery, where he met (or all this was adjusted) with the Duke of Milan Louis Sforza. The novel, the novel, the duke set the girl in his castle, but the duke set the girl in his castle, but then it was time to join the dynastic marriage with another woman, who, of course, did not like the presence of mistress in their house. Then, after God Galler, the Duke took her son, and she married her impoverished graph.

In this marriage, the churchilia gave birth to four children, a literary salon held almost the very first literary salon in Europe, there was a guest at the duke and played with his child from a new mistress. After a time, the spouse was killed, the war was killed, she lost her welfare and found shelter in the home of the sister of the very wife of the duke - here in such wonderful relations she managed to be with people. After the war, Gallerani returned his estate, where he lived until his death aged 63 years.

Zinaida Yusupov
V.A. Serov, "Portrait of Princess Zinaida Yusupova", 1902

The richest Russian heiress, the last of the kind of yusupov, Princess Zinaida was incredibly good for himself, and, despite the fact that her locations were sought among the other August Operations, she wanted to marry love. She realized her desire: marriage was happy and brought two sons. Yusupova spent a lot of time and forces spent on charitable activities, and after the revolution continued her and in emigration. The favorite eldest son died on a duel when Princess was 47 years old, and she hardly moved this loss. From the beginning of the unrest of Yusupov, Petersburg left and settled in Rome, and after the death of the spouse, the princess moved to his son to Paris, where he spent the rest of his days.

Maria Lopukhina
V.L. Borovikovsky, "Portrait of M.I. Lopukhina ", 1797

Borovikovsky wrote many portraits of Russian nobility, but this one is the most charming. Maria Lopukhina, a representative of the Count of Tolsti, is shown here at a gentle age of 18 years. The portrait was ordered by her spouse Stepan Abrahamovich Lopukhin shortly after the wedding. Ease and a slightly supered look seem to be the usual position for such a portrait of the Epoch of Sentimentalism, whether the signs of the melancholic and poetic lave. The fate of this mysterious girl turned out to be sad: after only 6 years after writing, Maria's painting died from Chakhotka.

Jovaanin and Amacil Pacini
Karl Brullov, "Horseman", 1832

The "Horseman" of Bryullov is a brilliant parade portrait, in which everything is luxurious: and the brightness of the paints, and the puff of the drapes, and the beauty of the models. It depicts two girls who were surning the surname: Senior Jovanin is sitting on a horse, the youngest Amacilia looks at her with a porch. The picture of Karl Bullyov - his long-term beloved - ordered their adoptive mother, the Countess Julia Pavlovna Samoilov, one of the most beautiful women of Russia and the heir of a colossal state. Matured daughters countess guaranteed a large dowry. But it turned out that it was practically broken to the old age, and then the adopted daughters of Jovanin and Amacilia were charged with the court and property from the Council.

Simonetta Vespucci
Sandro Botticelli, "Birth of Venus",
1482-1486

At the famous picture of Botticelli depicted Simonetta Vespucci - the first beauty of the Florentine Renaissance. Simonetta was born in a rich family, at the age of 16 married Marco Vespucci (a relative of Amerigo Vespucci, "Opened" America and who gave the continent of his name). After the wedding, the newlyweds settled in Florence, were adopted at the court of Lorenzo Medici, in those years, famous in lush femors and techniques.

Beautiful, while very modest and friendly Simonetta quickly fell in love with Florentine men. The ruler of Florence Lorenzo tried to care for her, but his brother Juliano was more active. The beauty of Simonetti inspired many artists of the time, among whom was Sandro Botticelli. It is believed that since their meeting, the model of all Madonn and Venus Botticelli's brush was Simonetta. At the age of 23, Simonette died from Chatheka, despite the efforts of the best court doctors. After that, the artist depicted his MUZ only in memory, and in old age he won, so that he was buried next to her, which was fulfilled.

Vera Mamontov
V.A. Serov, "Girl with peaches", 1887

The most famous painting masters of the portrait of Valentina Serov was written in the estate of the rich industrialist Savva Ivanovich Mamontov. Daily over the course of two months the artist posed his daughter, 12-year-old faith. The girl grew up and turned into a charming girl, married the mutual love for Alexander Samarin, belonging to the famous nobility name. After a wedding trip in Italy, the family settled in the city of Bogorodsk, where three children were born one after another. But unexpectedly in December 1907, just 5 years after the wedding, Vera Savvishna died of inflammation of the lungs. She was only 32 years old, and her husband did not marry anymore.

Alexandra Petrovna Storeskaya
F.S. Rockots, "Portrait of the Strust", 1772

This portrait of brush rokotov like air semi-rolls. Alexandra Struj was 18 when she was married to a very rich widow. There is a legend that the husband gave her no less as a new church for a wedding. And all his life wrote her poems. Whether this marriage is happy, it is not known for certain, but everyone who has been in their home paid attention to how the spouses are disappeared. For 24 years, Alexander's marriage gave birth to her husband 18 children, 10 of whom died in infancy. After the death of her husband, she lived another 40 years, firmly managed the estate and left the children a decent state.

Galina Vladimirovna Aerkas
B.M. Kustodiev "Kupchikha for tea", 1918

"Kuchahha for tea" Kustodiev is a real illustration of the bright and second Russian, where the fairs, the carousel and the "crunch of the French beer". The picture was written in the post-revolutionary hungry 1918, when it was possible only to dream about such abundance.

For the tramp. In this portrait, Galina Vladimirovna Aercas - Natural Baronessa from the genus, leading his story already from one Livonian knight of the XVIII century. In Astrakhan Galya Aderkas was a neighbor of Kustodiy houses, from the sixth floor; In the studio, the girl led the wife of the artist, noting the colorful model. During this period, Asherkas was quite young - the first-grand student of the medical faculty - and on the sketches, her figure looks much thinner. After graduating from the university and worked as a surgeon for some time, she threw the profession and sang in the Soviet years as part of the Russian choir, participated in the voicing of films, married and began to act in the circus.

Lisa del Jokondo
Leonardo da Vinci, "Mona Lisa", 1503-1519.

Perhaps one of the most famous and mysterious portraits of all times and peoples is the famous Mona Lisa Lisa Brush Great Leonardo. Among the many versions about who owns a legendary smile, officially in 2005 was confirmed as follows: Lisa Del Jocondo is depicted on the canvas, a spouse of a silk from Florence Francesco Del Jocondo. The portrait could be ordered by the artist to celebrate the birth of a son and buying a house.

Together with her husband, Lisa raised five children and, most likely, her marriage was based on love. When the spouse died from the plague and Lisa also struck this severe illness, one of the daughters was not afraid to take mom to him and went out. Mona Lisa cured and lived some time together with her daughters, died at the age of 63.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new holiday appeared in our calendar, whose name sounded as a revolutionary slogan: "International Women's Day of Solidarity of Workers of Women in the struggle for equality of rights."
Fortunately, over time, this day acquired a completely different meaning, and for us March 8 - a feast of female beauty and charm.

Wanting to combine historical with pleasant, we collected several paintings of cute, flirty and strong workers from great artists - the eternal captives of women's beauty and virtue!

Alexey Venetsianov, a native of Moscow, first visited the village of 35, when after the wedding Newlyweds went to spend their wife's parents to Tver province.

The artist was so fascinated by the nature that he immediately had a desire to settle among the Russian expanses and he buys the estate in Safonovka.

It is here that he writes the picture "On Pashne". All the work of Venetsian is permeated by poetry, his paintings dedicated to the peasant life, idealize rustic life.

In the paintings of Venetsianov, Zinaida Serebryakov was in love with childhood. In her early paintings, an invisible connection with the work of the Russian beetteer is felt. Venetian's peasant women a hundred years later, as if continue to live in her paintings.

Rustic girls from the artistic artist, with royal posture, they are leisurely make everyday work - the true poetry of spirituality!

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova. "Harvest"
1915, 177 × 142 cm.

The paintings of the "harvest" and "canvas whitening" refer to the best works of Zinaida Serebryakova. They were written in the childbirth hopeless in the Kharkiv province, where since 1898 the Serebryak family has spent the summer and autumn.

In 1914, after a long journey over the north of Italy, Zinaida arrived in Neskuvny and immediately began to work on the picture of the "Hattha".

The study of the artists of the Italian Renaissance, only recently seen in museums and galleries, is felt in a classically constructed composition, and the monumentality of forms emphasizes the beauty of female figures on the background of the landscape with wheat fields, unevenly leaving the horizon.
These paintings consider the latest idyllic pictures of pre-revolutionary Russia.

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova. "Whitening canvas"
1917, 141.8 × 173.6 cm.

Lace, powder, lipstick - everything that the charming should be ...

French ladies are also working, not to give up hands, in the paintings of artists. In the era of Rococo, the most fashionable profession of urban residents was the work of the modist.

Elegant and luxurious outfits, corsets, embroidery and lace constituted all female thoughts, because it was necessary to sleep for the legislator mod Madame Pompadour!

And the fantasy of young girls embodied the masters for all hands - modists. Francois Bush in the picture "Modist" as if the furtively looks into the room and peers behind the ladies who discuss the future model.

Francois Bush. "Modist"
53 × 64 cm.

In the XVIII century, in the Epoch of Enlightenment in France, art was taken to praise and assert the advantages of the third class, and simplicity and naturalness were considered a good tone in painting.

Jean-Baptiste Greem in the painting "Brochka" not only depicts graceful and charming young worker - in this way he sneezes hardworking.

In Russia, in the second half of the XVIII century, Grez became a fashionable artist, the noble to know the portraits, Empress Ekaterina II herself on the council Didro acquired the painting "paralytic" by the artist.

Of course, such a popularity of Great creativity did not pass unnoticed for Russian painting, his paintings had a great influence on the Russian portrait.

Jean-Batist Greaz. "Bachelor"
1761, 32 × 40 cm.

Master-lace.

"Russian Great" called Vasily Tropinin for charming female portraits. For the first time in Russian painting, he created a new type of genre portrait - a poetic image of a girl at work.

Young beauties in the paintings "Laneby" and "Gold Solving", engaged in their work, take a look from his work and look at the viewer.

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin. "GOLDER"
1826, 64 × 81 cm.

Tropinin was a serf artist and only at the age of 47 received free. It is symbolic that it was 1823 - the year of writing "Lace", brings the artist and freedom, and official recognition.

This year, he first shows his work at the Academy of Arts, and the artist honors the titles of the "appointed academic". So an intimate portrait of the townoons brought freedom and the success of his Creator.

Tropinin. "Lace"

Homemaker

The household has always been on female shoulders and kitchen hides - direct duty. For some, this is a blessing, and for many - a fruit. For the heroine of the painting "The kitchen" Bernardo Strozzi is a debt and a holy interaction.

You can ask yourself a lot of questions, looking at the picture. For example, why do a young girl get out of the bird in an elegant dress and beads? Does she have a fair number of dishes for dinner?

Who is depicted in the picture - maybe the artist portrayed his wife and so she looks like a viewer so affectionately? Such an option is quite possible: the picture on the household plot of the construction is quite rare and for the spouse he could well make an exception.

Bernardo Strozzi. "Cooker"
1625, 185 × 176 cm.

The author of the painting is the Italian artist of the Baroque era with a remarkable biography. The adventure nature of construction was reflected in his entire activity: in his youth, he joined the Order of Capuchins and became a priest, then he studied painting in the Sorry Genoese artist's workshop and at the same time he worked as a ship engineer at the Genoese Fleet.

Later, the artist escaped from the monastery and hid from the persecution of the monks in Venice. But the classes of painting stroke did not leave. The main topic was portraits, religious and mythological scenes, and the painting of Caravaggio had a great influence on the creative manner.

"Profession" Cinema was once very popular and artists had often appealed. The touching image of the elderly shepherds find in the work of Van Gogh, who with a special warmth and love wrote ordinary village residents.

Take a look at the flavor of the paintings: Yellow Wheat fields - the color of the sun and heat, gently opposed the blue cape of the shepherds, is a frequent reception in the works of the artist, but he does not cause anxious feelings as in his other pictures.

Van Gogh shades of color uncommonly conveys its feelings. Whatever whirlpools are awesome around, a woman is calm and submissated with difficult fate ... And our dominant and sincere feeling at the sight of this picture is "empathy."

Vincent Van Gogh. "Cowgirl"
1889, 52.7 × 40.7 cm.
The artist created this work during the treatment of San Remy in the south of France. During this period, 1889-1890, he studied the creativity of the founder of the Barbizon School of Jean Francois Mill, and during that time he made copies from 23 of his paintings, among them and "Cinema" (although it's hard to call a copy of Van Gogh).

Vincent writes his brother about his lesson:
"I assure you that it is terribly interested to make copies, and since now I have no models, I will not abandon work over the figure with these copies.
I use black and white reproductions of Delacroix and Mill, as if it were real life plots. And then I improvising color, although of course not quite as if it did it myself, but trying to remember their paintings.
However, this is a "remember", unclear harmony of their paints ... And there is my interpretation. "

Comparing the pictures of two artists, it seems that Van Gogh wrote a cowlock in his imagination.

Mill "Cinema" 1, Mille "Cinema" 2.

Jean Batist Shadin watched the life of ordinary citizens and wrote plots from their daily life. From the picture "Brochka" blows a quiet homely, where all the mistresses were caught.

While Mama is erased, the son is busy with his simple fun. Children's images are always present on the paintings of Sharden, emphasizing the love of the mother to the child. The demonstration of these relationships help him create a spiritual atmosphere of heat and a modest, but significant and filled life of citizens.

Female work in the paintings of the artist is equal to the noble work made with a special effort and love.

Jean Batist Simeon Charden. "Boochka"

TRANSFERS OF SCHOOL - We will build a new world!

New professions are mastering women in the Soviet country. We are not just some Western fashion model - a Soviet woman can build a subway!

In the graphics series of the 1930s, Alexander Samokhvalov, portraits of Girls-Metrostroitel embodied the ideal of socialist labor.

Zador, young energy, optimism and power beat through the edge in these works - we will build a new country. Here it is with a drill, with a shovel, beautiful, strong and happy, she is all on the shoulder!

The artist involved in the ideological path of the country, he sincerely believes in the universal creation for the good of the brief future. And the spiritual impulses of the artist - the matter is quite tangible, just take a look at work!

By their changeability, the fashion loses only the weather, although this is a controversial question. Moreover, fashion changes not only on clothing, styles or accessories, but also on women's beauty. A recognized beauty of one era, in half a century it can be considered a narrowder (but we know with you that there are no ugly women). At all times, the artist reacted very sensitively to the fashion caprises, since they always sought to portray the most beautiful women of their era.

Ancient Greece and Rome

Unfortunately, the feminine ideals of antiquity have to be judged by frescoes and sculptures, the full picturesque works have not been preserved. In ancient Greece, the benchmark of Aphrodite was considered a benchmark of female beauty, a lady of lush forms with long dense red hair. It is the same that it is depicted in the picture of Sandro Botticelli "Birth of Venus", the truth created already in 1485. In ancient Rome, the beauty of the female is most valued, and the figures of the forms were in second place. For example, a picture "Prosetti" (1874) Dante Rossetti was created with such an eye.

Middle Ages

In the Middle Ages, for chasing female beauty, it was possible to go to the fire, so there were no artistic testimony. To demonstrate a female figure stricter forbidden. The clothes had to completely hide the body, and the hair was hidden under hats. The standard of women's beauty was the holy women who gave themselves to serving God.

Renaissance

The era of revival is of such a name due to the revival of interest in the ideals of antiquity, including in matters of female beauty. Wide thighs, magnifier, elongated face, a healthy blush - so the first beauty of the 15th and 6th centuries should look like. That is how women are depicted on the pictures of Sandro Botticelli, Rafael Santi and Michelangelo. The ideal of the beauty of the Renaissance era can be called Italian Simonette Vespucci, which is depicted on several pictures of Botticelli "Spring" (1478), "Birth of Venus" (1485), "Portrait of a young woman" (1485). In the era of the revival in fashion was a high forehead, and to achieve such an effect of fashionista shaved eyebrows and hair growth line. It is well noticeable on the famous film "Mona Lisa" Leonardo da Vinci.

Epoch Barochko

At the end of the 16th - early 17th centuries, the ideal of female beauty was white-skinned women (the tan was considered the death of peasants) with a small breast, a tiny leg, a pale face, but with lush hips. In addition, any aristocrat was supposed to have a high complex hairstyle. These fashion trends are well noticeable in the portrait of Louis Xiv Madame de Mont Himpan (1670) of Pierre Minyar. It is by this period that the famous work of Jan Vermeer "Woman with pearl earring" (1665).

Epoch Rococco

If a woman is more like a porcelain doll on the picture, surrounded by veins, umbrellas, couplings and gloves, then it can be safely argued that it is about the Rococo Epoch. At the beginning of the 18th century, "light anorexia" is included in the fashion: women's beauty becomes fragile, with narrow hips, little breasts, and treated cheeks. There are evidence that, to obtain the effect of "shoulder cheeks", some ladies removed lateral teeth, leaving only front - beauty requires victims. The canons of the beauty of the Rococo era perfectly illustrate portraits of Francois Bush, for example "Portrait of Marquis de Pompadour" (1756).

The era of romanticism

Only in the second half of the 19th century, natural blush, healthy freshness and roundness of the forms are again becoming standards of women's beauty. And the most attractive part of the female body becomes rounded shoulders, which were simply necessary for any beauty. It is such women who are found in the pictures of Adolf Bugro, such women were portrayed the first impressionists ("Birth of Venus" Bugro, "Big Bunkers" Renoir, "Blue Dancers" Degas).

The beginning of the twentieth century

"Russian Venus", "Kupchikha for tea", "Girl on the Volga" Boris Kustodiev perfectly illustrate the canons of beauty of the early 20th century. Everything that romanticism admired in a woman was even more lush and weighty. 20-40 years of the twentieth century

Middle of the twentieth century

Marilyn Monroe becomes the ideal of the female beauty of the middle of the last century. Low blonde, without any beggars in the direction of thin or magnifier. Her image willingly used in his works the founder of pop art Andy Warhol.
To talk about the further development of ideals of female beauty, especially in their connection with painting, while not worth it. It is only necessary to note that the story develops in a circle, and thinness and soreness are in fashion.

Rembrandt Wang Rhine Saskovia in the form of flora. Woman in the form of floral world (colors). Here, as this picture is decrypted. Flowers in the hands of Saska, as if rod. The headband on the head seems to be a crown. Woman herself, as if the queen of wildlife.

Rafael Santi Madonna Raphael. The picture is old, but beautiful. Artists highlight in their works only the most beautiful, and this is a mother with children. Rafael Santi decided not to differ from the rest of the artists and wrote a picture of Madonna. I believe that this picture is worthy of honor and high rating.

Rafael Santi lady with a unicorn. The artist's fantasy was elegant. Write a lady with a unicorn, the creature that the creation of Magic itself could not be the subject of the honorable art of Rafael Santi himself. To talk about the beauty of the lady I think it does not make any sense. This woman is excellent.

Rafael Santi. Small Madonna Caucawaer. Italian painter I.
architect one of the most
great artists in the whole
world history, master
Madonn, depicted another Madonna with blond hair and a child in his arms. Simplicity of her face and look, is striking me.

Sandro Botticelli Madonna with baby and angels. It is clear to the picture that even angels admire the unearthly beauty of this incomparably beautiful woman. Their handles stretch to her, as kids handles stretch to the mother. Angels - ambassadors of God.

Sandro Botticelli. Venus and Mars. The picture was written in 1483. It is written, perhaps
on the order of the merchant family
Vespucci. One historian suggested that Mars is depicted with closed
eyes because
under influence
foaming substances. And so it or not, no one knows.

Zinaida Serebryakov Kormilitsa with a child. How beautiful and magnificent Russian women are beautiful. And to be a mother - this is a feat. Being a mother of children and always look good - this is not only great art, but also hard work.

Ivan Petrovich Argunov Portrait of Empress Catherine Second. 1762 I. P. Argunov
Received a responsible order
- Creation of portrait
Empress Catherine II. Seeing my portrait,
Written by Ivan
Petrovich "Mount", Catherine was
pleasantly surprised.

Ivan Petrovich Argunov Pictures of Argunova. Portrait of Lobanova-Rostovskaya. You just see what her thin waist is. The women of that time tried as best to follow their figure. Beautiful, lush outfits, decorated with precious stones, looks gorgeous even on the most ugly women.

Ivan Petrovich Argunov Portrait of an unknown in a peasant costume. One of the famous
works of russian
artist. Portrait
Unknown reflects interest
to peasant themes,
appeared at that time
Russian society. The interest is caused by the origin of the author himself.