Russian Actors

Yaroshenko Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1846 – 1898) – artist – genre painter and portraitist. Military education and promotion, he passionately loved art and he devoted all his spare time and entering in 1878 in the number of members of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, from the time he was with his works constantly and exclusively [...]

Polignot – Greek painter, a native of the island Fazosa, a disciple of his father Aglaofona, about 462 PM, at the invitation of Cimon, arrived in Athens, where he, along with other artists, has been charged with painting the walls Stoa poiklh (see Athens, II, 572) as well as temples Dioscuri and hostel. The first [...]

Rembrandt van Rijn (06.15.1606 – 10.1669) – the great Dutch painter and engraver, the son of a miller Garmen Gerritsen and Nelte Villemsdohter van Rijn was born in Leiden. During the appearance of Rembrandt on in the world of his father were in a flourishing position that allowed him to give his fourth son, a [...]

Le-Nene brothers (Le-Nain), Louis Antoine (died 1648) and Mathieu (died 1677), the French painters who worked in half of the XVII century. Biographical information on them is very scarce, and art critics have not figured out the characteristics that distinguish the work of one of them from the works of another. They painted mainly scenes [...]

Ushinsky Konstantin (19.02 (02.03) .1824 – 12.22.1870 (03.01.1871)), a Russian teacher, a Democrat, the founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia. In 1844 graduated from Moscow University. In 1846 – 1849 Professor of Yaroslavl Demidov Lyceum, which was forced to leave after accusations of disloyalty. Collaborated in the journals Contemporary (1852 – 1854) and "Library for [...]

Vivien Leigh (Leigh) (real name – Vivian, Mary Hartley; Hartley) (05.11.1913 – 08.07.1967), English actress. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London). Since 1934 he starred in the movies, in 1935 made her debut in London's Kew. Also play in other theaters of London, including in the "Old Vic". Among the [...]

Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille (Corot) (1796 – 1875) – one of the greatest French landscape painters of modern times. Worked first sketches from life under the guidance of Mishalona, and then learning from Bertin, lost a lot of time in the pursuit of academic direction of the artist, until set in 1826, to Italy and started up [...]

Before marriage Belogortseva Natalia L.. Born Nov. 24, 1938 in Moscow in a family of actors. His mother – an actress of the Moscow theater named after AS Pushkin Maria Zotovna Fonina.

Duccio di Buoninsegna (Duccio di Buoninsegna) (1260 – 1320) – founder of the Viennese school of painting. It is believed that he was born about 1260 and died about 1320 Staying true to the legends of Byzantine miniatures, however, he tried to revive the Deathly types of images must grace, majesty and calm expression of [...]

Daumier, Henri-Auguste-Hippolyte (1808 – 1879) – French graphic artist and part artist. Compiled by himself in 1840 – 60-ies. notoriety caricatures of the political circumstances, the public and private lives of prominent people and then the French. Figure he is dry and rough, but they submit to the types and scenes full of life, amazing [...]