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Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Mary with the Baby”

In a series of his extraordinary portraits performed over the course of a decade (from 1510 to 1520), Dürer managed to bring together all the best qualities of a person. For many years, he painted and studied human personalities in order to learn how to convey them as accurately as possible in his works. After a long search and determination of what exactly the canonical human beauty should be, as well as numerous attempts to substantiate the ideal norms of human appearance, he still He chooses the face of a modern German man.
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Description of the painting by Sandro Botticelli "The Return of Judith"

The great Italian Renaissance artist, Sandro Botticelli, is the author of many of the greatest works that have become the property of world culture, among which is the canvas entitled “The Return of Judith” written between 1472 and 1473. The Judith is a biblical character, a widow girl who, according to legend, saved inhabitants of the city of Vetulia from the enslavement of the troops of the Assyrian king Holofernes.
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Illustration for the tale "The Frog Princess" by Ivan Bilibin (Ivan Tsarevich and the Frog frog)

The great Russian artist Ivan Bilibin loved to create illustrations for fairy tales, he especially succeeded in this direction in art. Since 1899 he created whole cycles for publishing fairy tales, while working in different styles. For each story, he selected his approach, brought his own flavor. He created using the carcass technique, highlighted in watercolors, and used ancient Russian plots.
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