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About the product In the book «The Secret Life of Masterpieces» you and the author will stop at 13 great canvases. Learn the history of their authors, in what circumstances these paintings were created and what important details and meanings are hidden in them. You will learn: • What connects the painting «Unequal Marriage» with the works of Michelangelo? • What implicit allegory is hidden in Picasso’s Girl on the Ball? • Which painting by Van Gogh depicts death itself? • Why is Vrubel’s «Demon» not evil? • What do the «Ninth Wave» Aivazovsky and DMB have in common? Almost all the paintings described by the author can be viewed in Russian museums — for a more complete immersion in the topic. But if you do not have this opportunity yet, the virtual tour will help you to make color reproductions in the book. Nikolay Zharinov is a writer, philologist, art critic, editor-in-chief of the Artifex.Ru project. His first book, Confessions of a Literary Critic, was published in the spring of 2020 and became an instant bestseller. Abstract Each true masterpiece has its own history. To understand the tragedy of Rembrandt’s painting The Return of the Prodigal Son, you need to know that the artist depicted here the result of his own life. And Van Gogh, in one of his last paintings, painted his own imminent death, giving it an appearance that is no less terrifying than Munkovsky’s «The Scream». The author of this book is the chief editor of the Artifex.Ru project and the most charming art critic of the Russian Internet, Nikolai Zharinov. He will not only draw the attention of readers to the details of the paintings, but also reveal the stories of their creation in the context of the era and the life of the artists. Biographies come to life on these pages. They become almost tangible, thin threads of associations that connect the masterpiece, the creator and us who are living now. The book details 13 iconic canvases: «The Rooks Have Arrived» by Alexei Savrasov, «The Demon Sitting» by Mikhail Vrubel, «The Crucifixion» by Nikolai Ge, «The Girl on the ball «Pablo Picasso,» Unequal Marriage «by Vasily Pukirev,» The Ninth Wave «by Ivan Aivazovsky, etc. You can see the paintings on color reproductions. Get ready for an exciting journey into the world of art! …
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