The merchant Savva Ivanovich is comfortably located in the armchair, as if now he will start a business conversation. The presentable appearance of Savva Ivanovich testifies to the refined taste

The artist’s wife, Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabela, was a famous singer. Vrubel said that many singers sing like birds, but his Nadia sings like a man. Nature generously endowed Nadezhda Ivanovna

The painting “Pan” unanimously recognizes almost the apex of Vrubel’s entire work. Surprisingly, but wrote her artist for two or three days! They say that the impetus was the reading

The painting was the result of the artist’s serious work on the scenery for the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. At this time, the life of the whole family

The widely known great Russian post-impressionist Mikhail Vrubel used a special technique for writing paintings that amazes researchers and connoisseurs of his works. Careful selection of colors, intense color, fantastic

Vrubel traveled a lot – together with the family of Mamontovs went to Italy, France, Greece. On his return he wrote two panels – “Venice” and “Spain”. These are not

From the Old Icelandic “Valkyrie” – “choosing the dead dead”. In the Scandinavian mythology, these are warlike virgins who obey the god Odin. They participate in the distribution of deaths

Vrubel turned to the evangelical subjects for the first time during his studies at the Academy of Arts. Moving to Kiev – at the invitation of art critic A. Prahov

Vrubel often painted his wife. And he always walked away a little from reality, slightly elongating his face, widening his eyes, thereby making the image more mysterious. And the most

This picture Vrubel depicts the night in the deaf, rusty-red tones. Visible are the dark silhouettes of horses and the swarthy, half-naked shepherd-gypsy. Thistle thickets like living red torches: they

Vrubel was married to one of the most outstanding Russian singers, Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabele. She was the favorite singer of Rimsky-Korsakov, for her he wrote soprano roles in operas, beginning

1888. Cardboard, oil. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Even in the early years of his work Vrubel began work on the “Demon”. The theme of the Demon did not leave

In Kiev, Vrubel enthusiastically engaged in religious painting. He restored the ancient frescoes of the Church of St. Cyril, made several murals on the walls of the church. Among the

While portraying Maria Ivanovna Artsybushev almost simultaneously with her husband, Vrubel creates a representative portrait. The prim and disembodied lady in a strict black dress, animated only by the shine

The muse of every artist lives in his imagination. Even if the master considers the real woman to be the bearer of his inspiration, then the fantasy still gives the

Vrubel was happy when he had a son named Sawa. The joyful father found an art talent in the newly born child, assured his relatives that Savvushka “is unusually staring.”

Mikhail Vrubel, who knew classical art and literature and spoke several languages, was open and easy to communicate. But for all that, a hypnotic force emanated from him, as if

Serious studies of ceramics Vrubel owed to the rapprochement with the Abramtsevo art circle in the early 1890s. Although he was interested in sculpture before. The artist did not receive

Painfully lonely artist, stretching to the beyond, finds the joy of creativity, when in S. Mamontov’s Abramtsev through his friends and comrades comes in contact with the work of folk