Surely the great painter painted this painting under the impression of Pushkin’s book “The Captain's Daughter”. In this novel, there is just a court scene and this canvas, one can say, is a good illustration of that scene. It is probably not worth repeating the history of this Cossack revolt and recalling some important milestones in the life of Emelyan Pugachev.
After participating in the northern expedition of Savva Mamontov, the Russian artist Konstantin Korovin has an idea to create a series of paintings about the life of the North. Thus, from the artist’s brush in 1886, the painting “Northern Idyll” appears, because the painter was captivated by the beauty of the nature of the harsh northern region, as well as the purity of the soul of the local population.
Claude Monet is one of the most famous French painters who created his works in the genre of impressionism. The main goal of the impressionist artists was to convey the beauty of the surrounding world in its continuous variability. Thanks to a whole arsenal of special methods and techniques of painting, the masters managed to convey the emotional-sensual side of the image, reflecting the immediate impression of what they saw.
The painting was painted at the beginning of the 20th century, after the October Revolution. In the foreground, two young girls are sitting on the lawn near the shore of a forest river. The young women depicted in the picture are dressed in dresses of the pre-revolutionary era. On their faces appeasement, calm, slight sadness. Girls enjoy the beautiful summer weather.
Levitan is called a “mood artist” and a “singer of Russian nature,” and just look at his paintings to feel with all your heart why this is so. All of his landscapes are permeated with his mood - you can find cheerful and sad, joyful and dreary, permeated with fear and expectation, and, on the contrary, radiating hope and light.
The painting "Isabella Brant" by Peter Paul Rubens was completed by him in 1926. The canvas is currently owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art. It depicts the first wife of the painter a few months before his death. The fact is that she died of the plague, barely crossing the thirty-year line.
