260 years ago, on January 27, 1756, the brilliant Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. The musician worked in all musical forms of his time and had a huge influence on classical culture. He gave the world such immortal products
Tommaso Masaccio, whose paintings take a grand step forward from medieval painting to the Early Renaissance, was the first to update all existing traditions. The genius was poorly understood by his contemporaries, only Brunelleschi considered his premature death to be devastating
Noted only by the life-affirming motifs of “Spring”. “Venus and Mars” and “Birth of Venus”, but also with gloomy, tragic moods. A clear example of them is the drawing “Map of Hell” (La mappa dell inferno). There are several famous illustrators
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka is a composer whose works had a strong influence on the formation of subsequent generations of musicians. The ideas of his works were developed in their work by A. S. Dargomyzhsky, members of the “Mighty Handful”, P. I. Tchaikovsky and Mikhail Glinka. Krat
Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 in the village of Doborjan (Hungary). As a child, he was fascinated by gypsy music and the cheerful dances of Hungarian peasants. His father was the manager of the estate of Count Esterházy. He was an amateur musician and encouraged his son’s interest in
1 lap. Limbo The first circle of Hell is Limbo, where the souls of those who have not committed unrighteous acts but died without baptism reside. They are doomed to painless grief. Unbaptized infants of ancient philosophers and poets (Virgil) live in Limbo; Noah,
In the middle of the fifteenth century, all of Italy was fragmented into city-states, principalities and duchies, which fought territorial wars among themselves. In June 1440, one of many battles took place - the Battle of Anghiari, which gave a temporary truce
Some saw him as a fraudster, others as a genius. The musician’s entire life was shrouded in secrets and omissions, and only now some details of his biography have begun to be revealed. But everyone who spoke about the violinist agreed in one opinion: this man was a real
He was not shy about the “triumph of the flesh”, the magnificent forms that adorned his immortal canvases. He portrayed mythological characters brightly, richly, playfully; for him they were almost earthly creatures, enjoying life. His works adorn our Hermitage, the legendary
Alleged self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and the “Vitruvian Man” 1. Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the village of Anchiano, a suburb of the town of Vinci, which is located in the vicinity of Florence, Italy. The house where he was born now houses