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Paul Gauguin - “the world of Tahiti”
When you get to the hall where the paintings of Gauguin hang, you find yourself in a special world of images, mysteriously flickering colors, slow rhythms. Everything here is unusual…

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Egyptian ostracon drawings
“The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis” by Rembrandt
Eugene Delacroix – Goethe’s Faust lithographs
Veliky Ustyug
“David of Sasun” Yervand Kochar
Diego Rivera – the great Mexican painter
James Whistler: “I am an artist and“ born ”in Petersburg”
Leah Grundig – the art of anger and struggle
Caravaggio – “an excellent rival of nature”
Venetian landscape painters of the 18th century
“The Adoration of the Magi” by Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo Da Vinci
Two portraits of the actress Strepetova
Camille Corot: “I write with my heart”
Paul Gauguin – “the world of Tahiti”
Kanoplasta from Tanagra

Antique Cologne
Cologne ... Many have heard about this German city on the Rhine, a major center of medieval European culture. The well-known Cologne Cathedral is an unsurpassed monument of Gothic architecture.…

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Two portraits of the actress Strepetova
There are destinies that strike the imagination with unusualness and inner completeness — such is the life of Pelageya Antipevna Strepetova (1850–1903), difficult and bright, full of dramatic turns. At…

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Artists of besieged Leningrad

In the city on the Neva, in the House of Artists, in front of the entrance to the exhibition halls hangs a large marble plaque. On it are carved the names of those killed in the Great Patriotic War. More than 150 artists …

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Kanoplasta from Tanagra
The Greek words "tanagra", "tanagryanka" about a hundred years ago entered the Russian language. They are now used to denote everything fragile, feminine and plastic. The artist V. Serov invented…

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"Boris Godunov" and "Vasily Shuisky" by Ivan Shtenglin
In the middle of the 18th century, the interest of the Russian society in national history increased. Ivan Shtenglin, a master from Augsburg, Germany, who worked in Russia, completed from…

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“Portrait of D. A. Furmanov” by Sergey Malyutin
Sergey Vasilyevich Malyutin - the oldest in age and creative experience of all Russian masters who came to the Soviet art. With the victory of the October Revolution, which the…

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