The portrait of Venetsianova, also known as the "Girl in a Hat", was created in 1826. It depicts one of the two daughters of the painter, Alexandra Alekseevna Venetsianova (1816 - 1882). This painting is one of the most important artworks of A. G. Venetsianov, who, along with portraits of his most famous contemporaries, is N.

The famous work “The Bride of the Wind” by the Austrian expressionist artist Oscar Kokoschki was created on canvas with oil back in 1914. She brought him unprecedented glory and at the same time disappointment in love relationships for the long years to come. Now the painting is in the Basel Museum of Art.

For obvious reasons, the portrait work of Rafael Santi was largely lost, but especially valuable pieces, such as the portrait of a young man, continue to remain under the strict supervision of the world art community, as they are of exceptional artistic value.

The creative legacy of the artist-wanderer Pavel Alexandrovich Bryullov is small. He left behind only a few versatile works of style, but you can easily notice the outstanding artistic talent of the painter. In this, apparently, the hereditary genes were fully manifested - the genius Karl Bulbulov was his uncle.

Francois Boucher was perhaps the most prominent representative of the painting of the French Rococo era. The artist was awarded numerous awards during his lifetime and was his man at the court of Louis the Fifteenth, whose portraits of his favorite, the famous Marquise de Pompadour, repeatedly painted. The talent of the artist is multifaceted; he painted paintings, painted backdrops for the theater scene, created engravings; he painted on porcelain, painted fans and made sketches for fabrics.

Cranach Lucas Senior German painter and bright representative of the Renaissance. He had an individual unique style. The artist painted both pictorial portraits and graphic ones. His works had biblical overtones, despite the fact that it is usually difficult to recognize a deeply embedded meaning when looking at a portrait.