Descriptions of the Paintings

The “Annunciation" was presumably created by Leonardo da Vinci 1472-1475 during the period of his work with his teacher Verrocchio and is in fact an illustration of the biblical plot of the moment when the Archangel Gabriel annunciated the coming birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary....

The fresco work titled “The Last Supper” was created by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495-98 inside the monastery frater in Milan, to depict the Christ’s last supper with his disciples....

"Vitruvian Man" is one of the most famous images ever created by Leonardo da Vinci. It was written to serve as an illustration based on the book of Vitruvius Pollio, who was a Roman architect, in 1490-1492, and belonged to the period when the artist was taken away by creating the...

Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich (birth name - Hovhannes (which is the Armenian for John Ayvazyan) was born on 07/17/1817 in the Crimean city of Feodosia, in the family of a tradesman of Armenian origin Gevork (later Konstantin) Ayvazyan and his wife Hripsime....

The painting titled "Gurzuf" was written by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky in 1859....

Aivazovsky painted his "Arrival into Sevastopol Bay" in 1852, depicting the Alexandrovskaya and Konstantinovskaya batteries on the right and left hand of the picture, respectively....

Sarah Kemble Siddons (1755–1831) was a British actress. She got famous owing to the successful role of Lady Macbeth, whose image performed by Siddons is considered among the best ones in the theatrical history....

The "Moonlit Night. The Bathhouse in Feodosia” was painted by Aivazovsky back in 1853. And the very first thing attracting the viewers’ attention is the bright lunar disk, breaking the thick and dense darkness of the southern night with its light....

In 1857 Aivazovsky wrote the painting “The Italian landscape. The Evening" based on his memories of a trip to Italy in youth. The picture shows the master's walk on Lago Maggiore Lake at the foot of the Alps....

"The seashore at night. At the lighthouse" titled painting was written by Aivazovsky in 1837, in the early period of time when the artist was studying at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts....