Michelangelo Buonarroti – brief biography and paintings

Year of birth: March 6, 1475 Date of death: February 18, 1564 Country: Italy Locations of the artist’s works: Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel Uffizi Gallery National Gallery (London) Biography: One of the most famous sculptors, painters, poets, painters and architects of all time, Michelangelo Buonarotti was born on 06.03.1475 in Caprese, where he attended elementary … Read more

Paul Cézanne, biography and paintings

Year of birth: January 19, 1839 Date of death: October 22, 1906 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum Hermitage Museum d’Orsay Museum of Modern Art (New York) Biography: Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839 in the ancient French town of Aix-en-Provence. The only son … Read more

Biography and Paintings of Edouard Manet

Year of birth: January 23, 1832 Date of death: April 30, 1883 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: Museum d’Orsay Pinakothek, Munich Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art (Washington) Biography: One of the most outstanding painters of France, Edouard Manet was born in 1832. The artist’s father held a rather … Read more

Jean Auguste Dominique Engres – biography and paintings

Year of birth: August 29, 1780 Date of death: January 14, 1867 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: Louvre Hermitage Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum d’Orsay Biography: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born on August 29, 1780 in Montauban near Toulouse. His father, as a sculptor and painter, instilled in the … Read more

Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich – biography and paintings

Year of birth: May 27, 1837 Date of death: March 24, 1887 Country: Russia Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Hermitage Tretyakov Gallery Biography: Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich (years of life – 1837-1887) is known today as a talented portrait painter and historical painter. His hometown is Ostrogozhsk of Voronezh Province. It was there, in … Read more

Artist Kustodiev – biography and description of paintings

Year of birth: March 7, 1878 Date of death: May 28, 1927 Country: Russia Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Tretyakov Gallery Biography: The artistic talent of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev, the world-renowned representative of Russian painting of the last century, gave us a nostalgic world, sunny and joyful, emphasizing with bright colors the feeling … Read more

Grigory Grigorievich Myasoedov – biography and paintings

Year of birth: April 19, 1834 Date of death: December 30, 1911 Country: Russia Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Tretyakov Gallery Biography: Grigory Grigoryevich Myasoedov was born on April 7 (O.S. 19), 1834 in the village of Pankovo, Tula province (now Novoderevenkovsky district of Orel region), in the family of a petty nobleman. … Read more

Edgar Degas – biography and paintings of the artist

Year of birth: July 19, 1834 Date of death: September 27, 1917 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Pushkin Hermitage Museum d’Orsay National Gallery of Art (Washington) Biography: Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was perhaps the most classic of the Impressionists. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under one of … Read more