Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte was born on 21 November 1898 in Lessines province of Belgium, in the family made by the artist and textile merchant. His mother Regina was a hatmaker, before she married Leopold. She tried to commit suicide several times. Once, Leopold had to lock her in the room to...

The seal of the "illegitimate" haunted Perov from his birth and until the time when the great artist ceased to be someone's son and became himself - a bright and extraordinary personality....

In the history of Russian art, it is quite difficult to find a more tragic figure than Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov....

Vrubel is a Polish surname; however, by the time Mikhail was born, three generations of the artist's ancestors had already lived in Russia, and they chose a military path....

Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov was born in on 15 May 1848 in a village under funny name Lopyal. Vasnetsov's father was a priest, and same were his grandfather and great-grandfather....

Ivan Shishkin was born on January 25, 1832 in Yelabuga (Vyatka province, which is now referred to as Tatarstan). His father was a merchant belonging to the second guild - Ivan Vasilievich Shishkin....

Surikov Vasily Ivanovich greatly contributed to the development of the Russian art school. He was born on January 24 (January 12 as per the old style) in 1848 in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk....

I.E. Repin was born in Chuguev, which is located on the territory of the Kharkov province, in 1844. At that time, no one could think that this ordinary boy originating from a poor family would become a great Russian artist....

The artistic talent of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev, who is a world-famous representative of the Russian painting school of the past century, gave us a nostalgic world, sunny and joyful, emphasizing the feeling of a holiday with bright colors....

Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich (years of life - 1837-1887) is well known to us today as a talented portrait and historical painter. His hometown is Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh province. It was there, in the family of a minor official, that little Vanya was born. He was fond of painting since childhood. He...