Munch's painting, which was previously called “Loving Woman”, is now known as “Madonna.” Creating this canvas, the artist had the intention to reflect on it the main stages of any woman’s life: conception, reproduction of offspring and death. Therefore, it is believed that the lithography of the Madonna is the very first stage in which the conception of a child is depicted.

Artistic illustrations by Alexander Benois to this day are considered the best image of Pushkin's works. Benoit began work on a series of works for The Bronze Horseman in 1903 and in order to achieve such perfection he needed to spend 20 years. During this time, the artist drew a whole cycle of intros, endings, sketches and interpretations of the story.

Rembrandt is a Dutch artist of the 17th century. And he painted his most famous self-portrait in 1640, already being a famous and recognized artist. Rembrandt became famous as a portrait painter. Among other well-known self-portraits, the work of 1640 stands out. Here is a confident man dressed in 16th-century fashion.

Levitan, having absorbed all the best from Ostroukhov, Serov and Korovin and other friends, created his own style, which they began to call the style of the Russian landscape, and rightly began to consider it “Levitan”. Levitan was one of the most significant Russian and European landscape painters of the 19th century. In his art the sorrow and joy of that time were absorbed, he embodied his creative searches in the lyrical images of Russian nature.

Rembrandt created the real pearl of the art “Aristotle in front of the bust of Homer” at a time when he was not recognized in Holland, but revered far beyond the borders of his homeland. Antonio Ruffo, a philanthropist of Sicily, expressed a desire to replenish his own gallery of paintings with an image of an ancient Greek philosopher, and Rembrandt created an image of Aristotle to order.

The painting was painted in 1917. Even in the first paintings of Krymov one can feel the vision of Russian nature through the eyes of a city dweller. Not everyone can see the beauty between the roofs of houses. You need to be a real artist to feel the secret life in the bustle of the city. In the picture of Krymov we see the land on which the first snow fell.