Religious themes are one of the many motives of the great Russian artist V. Vasnetsov. The painting “The Joy of the Righteous about the Lord” is the brightest example of the great talent of a brush master. His murals dedicated to the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Russia in the Vladimir Cathedral are, according to the artist himself, a “path to the light”, to which he gave more than a dozen years of his life.
There are several landscape painters who amaze with their skill. Among them, Levitan is a little isolated. This master from under the brush came out simply amazing landscapes of Central Russia. Some unprecedented beauty in the ordinary appears on his canvases. Here, it would seem, a simple hollow between the forest and the field and this border is observed either by a stream, or simply by a large puddle.
The first artistic experiments of Titian associated with the creation of religious compositions. Works such as “Caesar's Dinar”, “The Position in the Sepulcher” (both paintings were completed by the 1520s) are a vivid example. In parallel, in the 1510s, Titian turned to the portrait genre, so that over the next four decades, to create canvases thanks to which he is recognized as the greatest portrait painter of not only the Italian, but also the European Renaissance.
Have you ever been in a forest when fog completely conquered it? Or then, when he slowly enveloped the forest with his steam - so thick and so alive - that it became scary. What if there is someone inside the fog? What if this someone is some kind of forest animal? This feeling of fear always possesses a person while the fog is around.
The artist conceived a grand triptych in America. Three parts were to enter into it: hell, heaven and purgatory. The canvas "Hell" inhabits a lot of characters. If you count, then about 80 heroes are recruited. With all of them, the artist must have encountered in reality. The composition here is in the form of a pyramid. Blue shapes with sharp corners resemble bizarre blocks of ice.
Roerich and then true to himself. Again soft paints, as on other canvases and again a little historical plot, as well as on some of his canvases. But here is a completely different story. Here there is a place for mythology and history and for a natural phenomenon, and of course more attention is paid to nature. Look carefully and you will not immediately understand where the crowns are.