It was rather difficult for Vasiliev to portray Mikula Selyaninovich, an ordinary rural peasant-hero, without indicating his somewhat divine beginning. Before painting, he spent time in the archive so that the picture did not have any unreliable details. The painting "Volga and Mikula" was created after Vasilyev finished all the work, which depicted the images of all the heroes from the entourage of Prince Vladimir.

The great European artist of the Northern Renaissance, Peter Bruegel worked in France, Brussels and Antwerp. All the plots of his paintings did not fundamentally fit into classical iconography. Rather, they can be attributed to the satirical-allegorical type of art. The original painting "Peasant Wedding" is painted in oil on an oak board.

Ivan Bilibin was able to turn book illustrations into real art, confirmation of which was one of his works. The painting entitled "Feast at Prince Gwidon" is known to everyone since childhood. Getting acquainted with the work of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, young inquisitive minds had the opportunity to get closer to the work of another brilliant master.

The painting “The Widow” written by Fedotov has a very interesting history of writing, a plot different from other works of the master and as many as 4 options that have come down to us! The idea to paint the picture hit the master’s head in Moscow when he was tormented by the fate of his unfortunate sister Lyubinka. The fact is that a girl who during her husband’s life was completely not happy, but, having survived his death, remained pregnant alone with all her debts and poverty.

Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky, who lived during the time of Catherine II, was a master of the so-called “ceremonial portraits”, where models were depicted in all the splendor of ceremonial clothes and regalia. In such works, everything was carefully verified - both the pose of the person portrayed, and the look, and the costume, and, of course, the background. As for the expressiveness of the model’s face, it was impossible to pay much attention to conveying the real nature of the person you are painting.

This painting was written in 1649. Before us appears the landscape in its typical form. Previously, there was an unwritten rule according to which artists did not draw nature directly from nature. They did it in their workshop. The whole landscape was built according to certain rules. The accents of the three plans were created using color.