As the artist himself admits, a fleeting impression served as the vital material for this picture. Once, while in Penaty, on his estate, Repin saw a young couple - a pretty girl and a gymnasium student - caught off guard by a sea wave. The girl was still trying to defend herself against the elements, while the young man, completely careless from the raging sea, was reading something by heart, proudly and slightly arrogantly opening his chest to the wind.

The portrait was painted in 1881. It is no coincidence that this portrait stands out among the artist's creations. A well-known fact - the picture was created shortly before the death of the composer. Due to this important fact, the portrait is filled with special drama and maximum depth. We see Mussorgsky, who is seriously ill. In his reddish face and sparkling eyes, the effect of an ailment is felt.

The original idea of ​​the picture "Stepan Razin" was a legendary romantic story about that episode from the life of the rebellious ataman, when he throws his beloved, Persian princess overboard into the oncoming wave. The demonstration of the moral victory of the leader and the preference of the interests of the led army over personal interests fascinated many great artists and poets.

Frederico Del Campo was born in XIX in the territory of South America, his homeland is Peru, it is there that he is best known as an artist of a diverse genre. However, Frederico Campo is known to Europeans as the author of wonderful landscapes about Venice, which the artist could only write when he was 30, falling into mercy with the local governor, who paid him a ticket for a ship to Europe, which at that time cost fabulous money.

Konstantin Korovin is a Russian artist who is considered one of the fathers of impressionism in Russia. He, like Nesterov and Levitan, created vivid, colorful landscapes that easily competed with ordinary everyday scenes and gloomy portraits. His work is still considered a masterpiece. After all, it was not in vain that he was a favorite of Savrasov at the School of Painting.

Painted in oil on canvas in 1634, it belongs to the baroque art style in the animalistic genre. Diego Velazquez is a 17th-century Spanish artist. He was born into a noble family. From childhood, he showed great interest in painting, and his father decided to give his son to study with the famous artist of that time Herrera.