Мистические картины

Итальянские ученые сказали, что нашли остатки, которые могут принадлежать Лизу дель-Иокондо. Возможно, тайна «Мона Лиза» будет раскрыта. В честь этого помните самые загадочные картины в истории.

1. Жоканда
Первое, что приходит на ум, когда дело доходит доТаинственные картины ах, либо о рисунках-загадках - это «Мона Лиза», написанная Леонардо Да Винчи в 1503-1505. Gryuye писал, что эта картина может быть сумасшедшей, кто-то, кто, увидев множество нее, начнет венять свои разговоры.
«MySFots» в этой работе да Винчи найдут много. Художественные историки пишут диссертации на склонности рук Моны Лизы, медицинские специалисты диагностируются (от такой, что у Йоконды нет передних зубов, чтобы мона Лиза человек). Существует даже версия, которую Jocona является автопортретом художника.
Кстати, Специальная популярность Приобретено только в 1911 году, когда он был украден итальянской Винчнцо Перудж. Нашел его на отпечатки пальца. Так что «Мона Лиза» также стала первым успехом дактилоскопии, а огромный успех маркетинга художественного рынка.

2. Черный квадрат


Все знают, что «черный квадрат» не очень черная, а не квадратная. Это действительно нет квадрата. В каталоге на выставку он был объявлен Малевич как «четырехугольник». И действительно не черный. Художник не использовал черную краску.
Менее известно, что Малевич считал «черный квадрат» с его Лучшая работа . Когда художник был похоронен, «черный квадрат» (1923) стоял в главе гроба, тело Малевича было покрыто белым холстом с сжатым квадратом, черная площадь была нарисована на крышке гроба. Даже на поезде и телах грузовика были изображены черные квадраты.

3. Creek

с картиной "за ручей" загадочно не то, что она предположительно влияет на людей, заставляя их почти совершать самоубийство, но тот факт, что эта картина по сути реализм Эдвард Минка, который на момент написания этот шедевр страдал от маниакального депрессивного психоза. Он даже вспомнил именно то, как он увидел, что он написал.
? Форма Bluish-Black Fior и город - мои друзья продолжали, И я стоял, дрожа в волнении, чувствуя бесконечный крик, пронзительный характер. «

4. Grannie


Пикассо написал "Герник" в 1937 году. Картина посвящена бомбардированию города Герник. Говорят, что Пикассо в 1940 году был вызван в гестапо и спросил о «Геннике»: «Вы сделали?» Художник ответил: «Нет, ты сделал».
Огромная фреска Пикассо больше не писала Чем за месяц, работая в течение 10-12 часов в день. Герника »считается, что размышляет весь ужас фашизма, бесчеловечной жестокости. Те, кто видел картину со своими собственными глазами, говорят, что это приводит к тревогу, а иногда и панике.

5. Иван Грозный и сын его Ивана


Мы все знаем картину "Иван Грозный и сын Его Иван, "называя ее обычно" ivan gro Зни убивает ее сына.

Убийство Ивана Васильевича его наследника, очень противоречивый факт. Итак, в 1963 году гробница Ивана Грозного и его сына открылась в Архангельском соборе Московского Кремля. Исследования позволили утверждать, что Царевич Джон был отравлен.
Основным содержанием яда в его остатках много раз допустимой нормой. Интересно, что тот же яд был найден в костях Ивана Васильевича. Ученые пришли к выводу, что царская семья В течение нескольких десятилетий стал жертвой государств.
Иван Грозный не убил своего сына. Эта версия была соблюдена, например, Обер-прокурором Священного Синода Константина победившего. Видеть на выставке знаменитая картина Репина, он был возмущен и написал император alexander III : «Невозможно назвать картину исторического, так как этот момент ... чисто фантастически». Версия убийства была основана на историях папского Лия Антонио Посевино, которое трудно позвонить бескорыщету.
на картинке, как только настоящая попытка была совершена.
16 января 1913 года, двадцать летний значок художника-старика-старика Аврама Балашова победил ее три удара ножом, после чего лица, изображенные на картине Иванова Илья Репина, пришлось писать на самом деле снова. После инцидента хранитель Третьяковская галерея Хрулов, узнав о вандализме, бросилась под поезд.

6. Руки выступают против него




картина Билла Стоунгема, написанная в 1972 году, стала известной, скажем прямо, а не лучшая слава. Согласно информации о E-Bay, картина через некоторое время после покупки была найдена на свалке. В первую ночь, поскольку картина находилась в доме, нашел ее семью, дочь пришла к родителям в слезах, жаловалась, что «дети на картинке борются».
С тех пор картина очень плохая репутация. Чтобы купить его в 2000 году, Ким Смит постоянно приезжает право буквы с требованием сжечь картину. Также в газетах они написали, что призраки иногда появляются на холмах Калифорнии, такие как две капли воды, подобные детям из картин Стоунгема.

7. Портрет Лопухина


Наконец, «Плохое картина» - это портрет петли, написанный Владимиром Боровиковским в 1797 году, после чего стал плохой славу. В портрете изображена Мария Лопухин, которая умерла вскоре после написания портрета. Люди начали говорить, что картина «вынимает молодежь» и даже «приводит к могиле».
Это, безусловно, неизвестно, кто пускал такой слух, но после Павла Третьякова «бесстрашно» приобрел портрет за свою галерею, говоря о «загадке картины» скучно.

На портрете работы Владимир Боровиковского - Мария Лопухин рано

О портрете Марии Лопухина работы Владимир Боровиковский рассказал Ужасные истории во время Пушкина. Он был написан с ранним умершим от борьбы дочери дворянина Ивана Толстого, Mystic и Mason Lodge Master. Ходили по слухам, если молодая девушка смотрит на картину, он скоро даст Богу душе. В салонах прошептал, что жертвы дьявольского портрета были по крайней мере дюжины благородных девственников на выдачу. Вроде, там живет душа умершей Лопухины, она берет души.

После того, как ткань была выставлена ​​в галерее для всех, чтобы рассмотреть, говорить о проклятиях несколько скучно. Хотя по традициям портрет все еще считается «несчастным». в 1880 году, знаменитые сторонние покровители приобрели холст. Павел Третьяков в его галерее повесил два замечательных произведения художника Боровиковского Владимир Лукич (1757-1826) - портрет светской красоты Lopukhina и князь Куракина рядом друг с другом. Портреты написаны одной рукой, поэтому я поместил свой коллектор близко, но не было там, утром, по утрам, портрет несчастного числа Куракина был обнаружен на полу с разбитой рамой. Не понравился район принца строптивой красоты. Мины, которые не думали, что он приобрел историю жизни жизни людей, чьи образы для его коллекции и нашли особый факт, что в течение всей жизни молодая красота Лопухина не терпила старение Принц, который состоит для женщин.

Изобразительное искусство всегда считалось тесно связанным с мистической сферой. В конце концов, любое изображение - это отпечаток энергии, особенно если мы говорим о портретах. It is believed that they are able to influence not only at those who are written with, but also on other people. For examples, it is not necessary to go far: we turn to the Russian painting XIX. - early twentieth century.

Ilya Repin - the thunderstorm of modern?

Portrait of a writer A.F. Pisemsky

It is unlikely that anyone will argue that Ilya Efimovich Repin is one of the greatest Russian painters. But there is one strange and tragic circumstance: many who have fallen out to be his attenders, soon died. Among them are Mussorgsky, Pisem, Pirogov, Italian actor Mersey D'Argeanto. Hardly the artist took over the portrait of Fedor Tyutchev, he also died. Of course, in all cases, there were objective reasons for death, "but there are coincidences ... Even the hefty men, who posted the Repin for the Burlaci cloth on the Volga, they say, prematurely gave God to God.

Ivan the Terrible did not kill his son!

The story that Ivan Grozny is a son of a son - just a myth. It is believed that Ivan Grozny killed his son in a fit of anger with a blow of the priest in the temple. The reasons for different researchers are called different: from household quarrel to political friction. Meanwhile, none of the sources directly say that Tsarevich and the heir to the throne was killed by his own father! In the "Piskarevsky Chronicler" it is said: "At 12 o'clock in the summer of the summer, 7090 November on 17, ... Pressing Tsarevich John John. The Novgorod Fourth Chronicle reports: "The same (7090) year is pressed by Tsarevich John John for the uterine in Sloboda." The cause of death is not called. In the 60s of the last century, the graves of John of the Terrible and his son were opened. At Tsarevich's skull, there were no damage characteristic of brain injury. Consequently, there was no sylidery?! But where did the legend of him come from then? The author is the monk-Jesuit Anthony Possevin (Antonio Possevino), sent to Moscow Ambassador from Pope Roman with a proposal Orthodox church Go to the power of the Vatican. The idea did not meet support from the Russian king. Possevin, Meanwhile, allegedly became an eyewittress of the family scandal. The sovereign was angry with his pregnant woman, wife of the son of Ivan, for the "obscene appearance" - did not forget to wear the belt, did not put on only one shirt, whereas it was made to wear four. Sgorie, the beet began to beat the unfortunate staff. Tsarevich came to his wife: before that, his father had already sent two of his first wives to the monastery, who could not conceive him. John Jr. was not rapidly afraid that he would lose and the third - her father would just kill her. He rushed to the father, and he hit the stuff in the enclosure and struck the son of the temple. However, besides the assevine, no source confirms this version, although it later, Other historians and Karamzin later picked up. Modern researchers suggest that Jesuit came up with a legend in retaliatory for the fact that he had to return to the Papal court Nesolono Bread. Under the exhumation in the bone tissues of Tsarevich, the remains of poisons were found. This may indicate that John Jr. died from poisoning (which is not uncommon for those times), and not at all from the impact of a solid subject! Nevertheless, in the film Repin, we see exactly the version of the son. It is executed with such an extraordinary truth-like that you involuntarily believe: everything really happened. From here, of course, the "murderous" energy. In 1963, the grave of Ivan the Terrible and his son, Tsarevich John, was opened in the Arkhangelsk Cathedral of the Kremlin and His Son. Examination did not find any damage on Tsarevich's skull. However, another adulsive fact turned out - in Kingovich Kostya, Ivan himself, Terrible and subsequently, his mother and the first wife - Anastasia Romanova, was discovered mercury. Many mercury is a quantity, many times more than a deadly dose. It turns out that the dynasty is long framework. Maybe Ivan Grozny was not so terrible?

However, the most terrible story It happened to the picture "Ivan Grozny and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581," which in our time is more famous called "Ivan Grozny kills his son." Even balanced people when looking at the canvas became not in itself: too realistic written scene of the murder, too much on the canvas of the blood, which seems real.
The cloth exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery made a strange impression on visitors. Some in front of the picture were sobbed, others fell into a stupor, hysterical seizures happened to the third. And the young icon painter Abram Balashov on January 16, 1913 cut the canvas with a knife. He was sent to the hospital for the mentally ill, where he died. The canvas managed to restore.
It is known that Repin was thinking for a long time before being taken for the painting about Ivan Grozny. And not in vain. The artist of Myasoedov, from which the image of the king was written, soon in anger almost finished off his young son, who was also called Ivan, like the killed Tsarevich. The image of the latter was written from the writer of Vsevolod Garshin, who later came crazy and committed suicide, rushing into a staircase ... The writer Garshin, depicted by Repin in the image of Tsarevich Ivan in the picture "Ivan Grozny and his son Ivan", died obviously before His Son: He committed suicide at 33, rushing down from the top-end of the staircase in the intermarpherous opening. The cranial and brain injury turned out to be fatal, but the most awesome was that Harshin's head broke in the very place that was indicated by the artist on the famous canvas two years before the writer's suicide, - Ivan Grozny struck his son who became the symbol of his unfortunate destiny for Garshin, In the left temple. The artist was either predugaded orp refenty Garshin's further fate main role In the most ill-found picture of Repin.
The mystical coincidence of the dates trusts the migration of the seeming chances: Garshin committed suicide on April 5, 1888 at the age of 33, exactly on the birthday of Ivan John, the son of Ivan Grozny, born on April 5, 1554. The spirit of the murdered Tsarevich, resurrected on the Repein's canvas, called the soul of the writer who dares to become a fitter for the artist who involuntarily committed an act of invallation (magical murder of a person depicted).

Nightmare Ministers

Somehow Repein ordered a huge monumental canvas "Solemn meeting of the State Council".
The picture was completed by the end of 1903. And in 1905 the first Russian revolution was killed, during which the heads of officials depicted on the canvase flew. Some lost posts and ranks, others and at all paid life: Minister V.K. Plevie I. grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich, the former Governor General of Moscow, were killed by terrorists.
In 1909, the artist on request of the Saratov city Duma wrote a portrait of the prime minister of Stolypin.
As soon as he finished his job as Stolypin was shot in Kiev.
Who knows - Maybe if Ilya Repin is not so talented, the tragedies could not happen. Back in the XV century, a scientist, philosopher, alchemist and magician Cornelius Agrippa Nettesheim wrote: "Fear painter's brush - his portrait can be more alive than the original."

Miscellaneous "Stranger"

"Stranger" Ivan Kramsky brought misfortune to its owners

"Stranger" Ivan Kramsky (the original name - "Unknown") - one of the most mysterious masterpieces Russian painting. At first glance, there is nothing mystical in the portrait: the beauty rides on the Nevsky Prospect in an open stroller.
Many were considered the heroine of the Kram aristocratic, but a velvet coat and a stylish shovel hat, a trendy, trimmed with fur and blue satin ribbons, coupled with gritted eyebrows, lipstick on her lips and induced blush on the cheeks, give it to the lady of the then semifice. Not a prostitute, but obviously the content of some kind or rich man. However, when the artist was asked if this woman exists in reality, he just grinned and shrugged. In any case, nobody met the original.
Meanwhile, Pavel Tretyakov refused to acquire a portrait for his gallery - maybe there was a believed that portraits of beauties "suck forces" from living people. "Stranger" began traveling by private collections. And very soon gained bad fame. The first owner of her owner threw his wife, the second burned down the house, the third went bankrupt. All these misfortunes attributed the fatal picture.
I did not escape the curse and Kramskaya himself. Less than a year after the creation of the "unknown" one after another, two of his son died.
"Damned" the same picture went abroad. They say, and there she chined all sorts of troubles with their owners. In 1925, the "stranger" returned to Russia and still took its place in the Tretyakov Gallery. Since then, no excesses have no longer happened.
Maybe the thing is that the portrait from the very beginning should have taken the place-like place?

Karl Pavlovich Brullov. "Horseman"

In the history of painting, there is a case about the fate of the nephew of the brilliant italian composer N. Pachchini, whose portrait wrote in 1832 beautiful artist Karl Pavlovich Brullov (1799-1852). On the painting " Rider"The young Giovannina Pachchini is depicted, gracefully glorifying on a tonkogo horse. In Rome, they were told that young Giovannin was lucky, because after the death of uncle, I took her to raise the rich Russian countess Yulia Samoilov, but happiness lasted for a short time - the girl drowned the horse.

« Unequal marriage", Vasily Pukirev

The "unequal marriage" Pukirev wrote in 1862, when he was exactly 30 years old. The picture was accepted in different ways. Some said that "a very good frame, there are no anyone." Others called " tragic picture Russian school. " However, no gallery did not want to get this work, so Pukirev was glad and the artist A. Borisovsky acquired a friendly fabric. And after 10 years, the "unequal marriage" bought Tretyakov. I paid 1,500 rubles with silver, hung on the universal review - and something strange was happening.

Lyingly looking at the canvas, Muscovites told each other that the author portrayed his own grief in the picture - his favorite girl was rapidly married to a rich dignitary. And what could a poor artist do?! Just portray yourself next to your beloved. See a young black man with a burning look, what stands, arms crossed, in the right corner of the picture? It is he ...

And these peres were true! Therefore, the picture is so pierced. It can be seen by working on it, the artist, as he could, avenged the cursed rich - aged him to the impossibility. And that amazingly - that shortness died. But it did not help - the beloved did not return to the painter, but went to the monastery. The artist began a fever, he assured that he was haunted own picture. He did her copies one after another, on one of which was signed by coal directly in his image. Slowly, Pukires sparkled, lived on friends of friends and died in poverty and obscurity of June 1, 1890 ...

Muscovites told each other that the painting of Pukireva itself has a mystical influence. Old men who are preparing to marry young, can absolutely can not be before being - he begins to feel the head of his head, the other is the heart, and who loses the mind at all. No wonder the spectators nicknamed the painting of "Koshchei with the bride." By the way, the famous writer-historian N. Kostomarov confessed to friends that, seeing the picture of Pukirev, refused the intention to marry a young girl.

Yes, and with the girls on granting, looking at the picture, something wrong began to happen. Or the wedding will be broken up, or the marriage will be unhappy. Well, when one run, gathering under the crown, coming out of the gallery, rushed under the wheels of a passing horse, among Moscow brides firmly established belief - it is impossible to look at the picture of Pukireva before the wedding!

"Demon defeated"

One of the brightest and extraordinary geniuses of Russian painting, Mikhail Vrubel, there are works with which the personal tragedies of the artist himself are also connected. "Demon defeated" had a detrimental effect on the psyche and the health of the Vrubel himself. The artist could not break away from the painting, everything continued add the face of the defeated spirit, as well as to change the flavor. "Demon defeated" already hung at the exhibition, and Vrubel came to the hall, not paying attention to visitors, sat down in front of the picture and continued to work as if obsessed. The closest were concerned with his condition, and his famous Russian psychiatrist Behterev was examined. The diagnosis was terrible - dice of the spinal cord, close to madness and death. Vrubel was placed in the hospital, but the treatment helped poorly, and soon he died.

"Mermaids", Ivan Kram Titz

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskaya is traditionally considered the head of Russian realistic painting, the leader of the heads. But an amazing thing is among hundreds of realistic works created by Kramsky, the most famous and attractive canvas remained the mystical and mysterious. The right about mysticism Kramskaya did not think. Self "Mermaids" He conceived as a canvas " folk motifs", Taken from the" May night "Gogol. That's just it turned out strange - heavy moonlight, the witchcraft lake, the ghostly mermaids, who came to the night coast ... The organizers of the first exhibition of the mobile partnership (1871) hung this picture next to the touching landscape of Savrasov "The Rooks Have Arrived". And it happened unprecedented - Dual birds did not like the night mermaids - on the very first night, the landscape fell from the wall.

"Graci flew", Alexey Savrasov Titz

Tretyakov bought both web. "Gracities" decorated his office, and "Mermaids" could not find places - outweigh the room from the room. He also came across capricious creations. If someone did not like the "Neighbor", the paintings began to "fight" - then the paint is filled, then the frame will crack, and then one of the paintings on the floor will collapse. But the "mermaids" behaved worse than all - from the hall, where they were attached to the Tretyakov, a quiet coming singing was distributed at night. There refused to work cleaners, and Tretyakov's children were afraid to even walk by. Tretyakov himself began to notice that as soon as the longest would come near the "mermaids", feels terrible fatigue. Then the visitors began to happen to consider the scene from the May night hard. And after Moscow, he had rumored that some young lady, after seeing the picture of Kramsky, drowned in Jauze. It is good that the old lady, who lived in the Tretyakov family, admitted: "Hang to the farthest corner so that the light does not fall on it. It is difficult for mermaids with sunlight, because they will not even calm down at night. And how to fall into the shadow, since it will stop comobal! " So done. Since then, if the river maids on the canvas and sing their ruses of songs, this does not interfere with visitors.

"Woman of rain"

Now she is modestly hanging without a frame in one of Vinnitsa stores. "Woman of rain" is the most expensive of all works: worth 500 dollars. According to sellers, they already bought the picture three times, and then returned. Customers explain that she dreams of them. And someone even says, as if he knows this lady, but where does not remember. And all who at least once looked into her white eyes, forever remember the feeling of rainy day, silence, anxiety and fear.

Where did you come from unusual pictureShe told her author - Vinnitsa Artist Svetlana Taurus. "In 1996, I finished the Odessa Art University. Grekova, - remembers Svetlana. "And for six months before the birth of" Women ", it seemed to me all the time that someone was watching me. I drove such thoughts from myself, and then in one of the days, by the way, not at all rainy, sat in front of a clean canvas and thought what to draw. And suddenly clearly saw the outlines of a woman, her face, colors, shades. In an instant, all the details of the image noticed. The main wrote quickly - watched five hours. It seemed my hand someone drove. And then another month of Dorovaloval. "
Arriving in Vinnitsa, Svetlana put the picture in the local art Salon. It was also a matter of the matter of art and were shared by the same thoughts that they had the most during their time.
"It was interesting to observe," the artist says, "how subtle it can materialize the thought and inspire it to other people."
A few years ago, the first buyer appeared. A lonely businessman walked for a long time, looked after. Having bought a "woman," hanged her in his bedroom.
Two weeks later, Svetlana's apartment rang out a night call: "Please take it. I can not sleep. It seems that in the apartment, besides me, someone is. I even took it from the wall, hid behind the cabinet, but I can not all early. "
Then the second buyer appeared. Then the picture bought a young man. And also could not stand long. He himself brought her artist. And even money back did not take.
"She dreams of her," he complained. - Here, every night appears and the shadow goes around me. I'm crazy started to go crazy. I'm afraid of this picture!
The third buyer, having learned about the bad glory of the "Women", only dismissed. Even said that the face of an ominous lady seems lovely to him. And she probably sees with him.
Did not get along.
"I first did not notice what kind of white eyes he had," he recalled. - And then they began to appear everywhere. Headaches began, unfortunate excitement. And I need it?!
So the "Woman of Rain" returned to the artist again. In the city, the crooks rushed around that this picture was cursed. For one night can be crazy. The artist is already not glad that he wrote such a horror. However, light does not lose optimism yet:
- Each picture appears on the light for some concrete person. I believe that there will be the one for whom "Woman" wrote. Someone is looking for her - just like she.

Anna Akhmatova somehow said: "When a person dies, his portraits change." Picturesque portrait, painting is a powerful energy structure. The painter not only writes a canvas on this or that story - he conveys his feelings, thoughts, the worldview, and most importantly - the mood, which forms the energy of the artistic canvas. It is also called "catharsis". If the plot of the paintings is not an aggressive content, then it causes aggression and at the viewer. It should be noted that the paintings, portraits carry different energy. Sometimes the artist, without knowing, "loads" the contemplator of his paintings by the catharsis, from which he is released in the process of creating a canvas.

Russian scientists, exploring the "phantom" images of paintings, came to the conclusion that the "ninth tree" of Aivazovsky also possesses a powerful negative aura and a number of other famous canvases. And when studying the energy of the "black square" of Kazimir Malevich, one of the scientists ... Lost consciousness. "This is one big thicker of dark strength and energy. As if in the underworld, they painted the picture," the scientist admitted when he was with difficulty led to a sense. About the picture Malevich "Black Square" spoke earlier and say today. And not only in order to fade the price. So far, no one knows what this square means, and that Malevich wanted to express them. "Black Square" is a "black hole" in painting, suction positive, and ejecting negative energy, which is strongly acting on the psyche of the viewer.

Black Suprematic Square, 1915

Any real art radiates a strong energy that cannot be not felt. Most often it is positive. But there are creations with a pronounced negative energy, then it is believed that they bring troubles and even disasters. Mystical properties have musical and literary works, performances and films and, of course, painting.

"Creek" Edward Mukka

Of course, most often when it comes to mystical paintings, remember the "cry" of the Norwegian artist-expressionist Edward Mukka. They say the picture, the value of which is 70 thousand dollars, will be cruel to everyone who, somehow "offended her. It all started with the fact that one of the employees of the museum in which the picture was exhibited, inadvertently dropped the canvas, after which he began terrible headaches. Doctors could not make a diagnosis, and no drugs saved the unfortunate from suffering, without sustaining he committed suicide. Another minister dropped the "cry" when he outweigh him from one place to another, and soon got into a terrible car catastrophe - he survived, but remained crippled. The visitor, just touching the picture, in a few days burned alive during the fire ...

Such verticality of the picture is explained by the hard fate of the most painter, who in childhood lost all his loved ones and suffered from schizophrenia. At first, it was the canvas called the "Creek of Nature", many believe that the artist imprinted the end of the world. He himself assured that he really saw such a terrible landscape: "I walked along the path with two friends, the sun was sake, unexpectedly the sky was bloody-red. I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaned about the fence - I looked at blood and flame tongues over blue - Clear fjord and city. My friends went further, and I stood, trembling from excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature. " The Munk wrote four versions of the "Cream", two of them can be seen in the Museum Museum and the National Museum of Norway, both are in Oslo.

"Hands protecting him" Bill Stonehem

The picture "Hands defending it" ("Hands Resist Him"), written by the American artist Bill Stonehem, produced "Furore" at the very first exhibition, on which it was presented: Many visitors to the venice suddenly felt inexplicable weakness and dizziness, they began to cry and even Fallen. The first owner of the "hands" died two months after he acquired a picture, and his relatives, accusing in the whole picture, threw it into a landfill. There was a relapse of a poor family. "Hands" hung in the nursery, but the little daughter of the owners asked to remove the canvas from there: she assured that the children shown on it were fighting. Father found this story of the fantasy, but, having decided to check the words of the girl, hung in the room the camera - she fixed the movement in the picture. Subsequently, the "hands" often changed the owners, but they always got rid of the paintings. The last owner was the collector Kim Smith from Chicago, who was not selling it until anyone.

"Hands defending it" were written by Stonehem in the photo on which he was captured at the age of 5 years with his younger sister. It would be possible to say that the picture is a copy of the photo if there are no few differences. Stonehem himself depicted with a strange, distorted face, and sister - a doll with round, empty eyes. But, probably, the worst on the canvas - the door, behind which in a bright sunny day there is a pitch darkness, and children's palms, stretching from there to the glass. The artist himself said that behind this door is the entrance to the other world, and the doll is a guide to the world of spirits.

Ancient icon with the image of Christ

It would seem that the images of the saints should radiate only a positive, but the staff of many museums literally claim one voice: it is very difficult to be a whole day in the hall where icons are exhibited. It is very strong - and, often, negative - energy from them comes. One of these icons on which Christ is depicted is stored in the Ermitage stares. Previously, it was exhibited in the exposition, but after several inexplicable deaths Museum staff was removed from the eye. One of the specialists inspected the picture suggested that the artist who wrote an icon possessed powerful extrasensory abilitiesand handed them to your creation. People with similar energy potential can withstand such tension, all the rest of the icon will damage.

But, fortunately, there are also cases when icons saved the lives of people. In 1812, a detachment of Prince Evgenia, Vice-king Italy, who was part of the Army of Napoleon, stopped near one of the monasteries near Zvenigorod. At night, the prince was given a gray-haired old man in long black clothes. He stood next to Evgeny about a minute, and then said: "I didn't drive my soldiers to destroy the monastery, but especially to carry something out of the church. If you fulfill my request, God raises you, and you will come back home."

In the morning, Eugene ordered his army to continue moving to Moscow, not a touch of the monastery. Before leaving, he decided to go to the monastery temple. In the room there was a tomb, and over her - a portrait of an old man in which Eugene recognized his night guest. It was the founder of the monastery, Saint Sava, and his power ... Eugene went through many battles, but never even easily wounded. He safely returned to France, while almost all Napoleonic marshals who came with the emperor to Russia died or were subsequently executed.

"Water Lilies" Claude Monet

"Water Lilies" Claude Monet

The painting "Water Lilies" of the Impressionist Claude Monet is considered one of the most fire-hazardous masterpieces of painting.

As with each mystical picture, the "water lilies" has its own legend. Settling in the town of Giverni in the Upper Normandy, where Monet had a house with a garden, the artist was carried away with flowers: he not only grown, but also painted them. Later, removing the water from the river, equipped a pond in the garden, where he began to grow lilies - Monet wrote a whole series of paintings (about 80 museums are stored in the world on this topic), uniting them common title. The end of the work on one of the webs of Monet decided to celebrate the party on which he invited his friends. The junction of the guests by negligence staged a fire in the artist's workshop, as a result of which the picture itself was broken down, which was immediately flooded with wine. Subsequently, "water lilies" hung in one of the cabaret on Montmartre, in the house of Oscar Schmitts, and in the New York Museum of Contemporary Arts, and a fire began everywhere. Two times the guilt of "Celebrations" managed to save, but for the third time she was greatly charred. It happened half a century ago, and since then scientists break their heads over how to restore the masterpiece. They say, for this, NASA specialists who own space technologies will be treated.

"Old man with an outstretched hand" Unknown author

The cause of the fire several times became the picture of an unknown author "Old man with an outstretched hand", which is stored in Royal Museum in Edinburgh. If a person sees how old man moves his fingers, he was destined to death on fire. Human Molver attributes the canvas of two victims - Captain Belfast and Lord of Seimur, who was not lucky to experience the curse of the picture on himself. After that, the audience was divided into two parts: Some asked to remove the ill-fated picture from the museum, while others demanded to leave it to make sure that she truly brings the misfortune. Curiosity won, so "old man with an outstretched hand" can still be seen in Edinburgh.

"Crying Boy" Giovanni Bragolina

"Crying Boy" Giovanni Bragolina

The story associated with the picture of the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragoolina, made so much noise and recalculated so many times in a variety of variations, which is the truth, and where the fiction is no longer possible.

According to existing legend, Bragolina really wanted to write a crying boy, and made a fitter own son., rolling and fun boy, who was not afraid of anything in the world, except for fire. Therefore, to force my son to cry, the father-sadist lied a match from his face. Once the boy could not stand and shouted in the cast: "So that you yourself burned!" The curse was very soon: in two weeks, the baby died of inflammation of the lungs, and in a couple of years he died during the fire his father. The picture itself is leaving today, but its reproductions were one time very popular in England. While one day it did not find out that copies of the "crying boy" were stored in almost all houses in which fires happened, and the reproduction was the only property that was not injured from the fire.

"Mona Lisa" Leonardo da Vinci

"Mona Lisa" Leonardo da Vinci

The attraction of the Louvre, the famous "Joconday" Leonardo da Vinci is far from so harmless, as it may seem at first glance. Some Researchers of creativity Leonardo da Vinci consider her portrait, "feeding" the energy of those who look at her.

According to their version, it is not shown by Mon Lisa at all, but a black widow of Pacifici Brandano. Being an energy vampire, she brought the misfortune to whom her fate came. Her lover is the Duke of Medici, married to the French princess, soon after the wedding fell ill with Cachotka and died. The son of the Pacific was poisoned. Yes, and yes, Vinci himself was pretty a fairly injured from his model: he wrote a picture of about three years, and, according to eyewitnesses, turned out for this time from the complete forces of a man who, like a stronghold in a circus, could easily be a horseshoe, in a shallow elder. It covered fatigue and apathy, took away right hand. It seemed that life was leaving the great artist.

Genius yes Vinci with unique reliability managed not only exterior appearance its model, but also its energy essence. The portrait continues to live and pull the energy from the visitors of the Louvre, many of whom come to the capital of France only for the sake of meeting this picture. Today "Mona Lisa", the image of which is replicated on calendars and in different kind of advertising, a trademark. The research of marketers has shown that nine people out of ten "wade" it. It is hypnotically attractive, from her, as from pondering, it is impossible to get rid of it. Many cases are known when visitors have fallen into deep fainting in front of the portrait - after a few centuries, the image of the pachifics continues to eat the energy of living people. In favor of this version, it is the fact that in those times when the Louvre for some reason is closed for some time, the picture fades, and the woman depicted on it seems to be aging. But it is standing in the hall to appear to visitors how she starts to shine again.

"Worship of Magi" Peter Breygel-senior

"Welcome Magi" Peter Breyghel Elder

To that biblical plot Many artists appeared, ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and ending with Jerome Bosch, but bad glory only a picture of the "worship of the Volkhvov" of the representative Northern Renaissance Peter Breygel-senior (Menietian). The canvas written in 1564 is located in the London art gallery. It is believed that it is impossible for her for a long time to watch women - allegedly it causes infertility. This is explained by the fact that the artist posed him cousinwho could not have children. What force and energy was supposed to have a brush of the artist, in order to transmit her infertility through time and distance. Interestingly, the "worship of the Magi" of Peter Bruegel Jr., who repeated the picture of his father, the reputation is good - in poor impact on people it was noticed.

"Venus with a mirror" Diego Velasqueza

Another popular story, especially at the Masters of the Renaissance, is "Venus with a mirror", paintings on him wrote and Georgeon, and Titian, and Rubens. But only the "Venus" of Diego Velasqueza is considered dangerous, which is located in the London Art Gallery. The picture was resold several times at auctions, because her owners, rich traders, as soon as she had passed the money for the purchase, immediately ruined, otherwise they died: one pirates captured and dried ships with the goods, and the warehouses and the other All property died, and the third was killed at all during the robbery. Began to say that "Venus" brings misfortune, so she did not buy it for a long time until in 1906 the canvas did not acquire for London picture gallery. Even eight years later, the unfortunate picture itself was injured - in 1914 he was attacked with a knife of the soul fusionist Mary Richardson. After the restoration of "Venus with a mirror" returned to the London Gallery, where everyone can see it.

Portrait of Alexandra Neurchilova

The story of the portrait of the dealers of Alexandra Fedorovna Neurchilova, exhibited in the Museum of Industry and Art of Burylin in Ivanovo, is interesting. He was written an unknown artist In 1840, and since Neurchilova is depicted in a blue dress, the museum staff call her "woman in blue". As soon as the portrait hung, the museum staff initially hear the heavy steps of the caplea. Every year she became all bolder and boldly, followed the museum workers a trail in the next, especially on stairs. It came to the point that they began to be afraid to walk through the halls alone. And only during excursions the ghost did not appear, but only stared at those present from the portrait, pursing his lips. Because of these lips, the museum workers considered a careless and wayward. But it was she who once saved the life of a woman restorer. That, standing on the stairs under the most ceiling, suddenly swayed and began to fall, but suddenly felt someone's hands pretty much and confidently support. The ghost of "Women in Blue" calmed down only after the portrait was given to the restoration in Kolomna workshops.

Alexandra Voloshin

January 15, 2013, 20:34

1. "Crying Boy" - Picture of the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin. There is a legend, as if the father of the boy (he is the author of the portrait), trying to achieve the brightness, vitality and naturalness of the canvas, he lit in the face of the baby matches. The fact is that the boy was afraid of fire to death. The boy crying - father drew. Once the baby could not stand and shouted at the Father: "Gorge you yourself!". A month later, the child died from pneumonia. And after a couple of weeks, the charred body of the artist was found in its own house next to the picture of a crying boy who survived in a fire. On this, everything could end, but in 1985, with British newspapers, there were no statements about the fact that in almost every of the burned premises, firefighters found the reproductions of the "crying boy", which the fire did not even touch. 2. "Hands oppose to him" - Picture american artist Bill Stonehem. The author says that the picture shows himself at the age of five, that the door is the presentation of the dividing line between real Mir and the world of dreams, and the doll is a conductor who can spend the boy through this world. Hands represent alternative lives or opportunities. The picture became a famous urban legend in February 2000, when it was put up for sale at EBAY auction with a prehistory, telling that the picture is "with ghosts". According to the legends, after the death of the first owner, the painting was found in the landfill among the pile of garbage. The family, who found her, brought home, and already on the first night, a small four-year-old daughter ran into the bedroom of parents with the cries that "children in the picture are fighting." Next night - that "the children in the picture were outside the door." On the next night, the head of the family put the camcorder responding to movement, in the room where the picture hung. The camcorder worked several times, but nothing could be counted. 3. "Woman of rain" - Picture of Vinnitsa Artist Svetlana Taurus. For another six months before the creation of the painting, some visions began to visit it. For a long time, Svetlana seemed that someone was watching her. Sometimes she even heard strange sounds in her apartment. But these thoughts tried to drive away from ourselves. And after some time the idea appeared for new picture. The image of the mysterious woman was born suddenly, but Svetlana seemed to see how she knew her a long time ago. The features of the face that woven from fog, the clothes, the ghost lines of the figure - the artist wrote a woman without thinking for a minute. As if her hand drove an invisible force. In the city, the Molva rushed around that this picture was damned, after the third buyer returned the picture back in a few days, not even picking money. Everyone who had this picture said that at night she seemed to come to life and walks the shadow nearby. People began with headaches and, even hiding the picture in the closet, the feeling of presence did not leave. 4. In the time of Pushkin, the portrait of Maria Lopukhina, written by Vladimir Borovikovsky, was one of the main "horror stories." The girl lived a short and unhappy life, and after writing a portrait died from Chathek. Her father, Ivan Tolstoy, was a famous mystic and magician Masonic lodge. Therefore, rumors crawled around that he managed to lure the spirit of the dead daughter in this portrait. And that if young girls look at the picture, they will soon die. According to the salon gossip, the portrait of Mary destroyed at least ten nobles on the issuance ... 5. "Water lilies" - Landscape of the Impressionist Claude Monet. When an artist with friends celebrated the end of the work on the picture, a small fire happened in the workshop. The flame quickly poured wine and did not give it values. Just a month, the picture has checked in a cabaret on Montmartre. And then at one night, the institution burned down. But "Lilies" managed to save. The picture was bought by Paris Macenate Oscar Schmitz. A year later, his house burned down. The fire began with a cabinet, where the ill-fated canvas hung. It miraculously survived. Another victim of the mona landscape was the New York Museum of Contemporary Arts. Here "Water Lilies" transported in 1958. Four months later, she worked here. BUT damned picture He was greatly charred.
6. On the film Edward Mink "Creek" A hairless suffering from his head, similar to an inverted pear, is depressed in horror to the ears of his palms and with an open mouth open in a silent cry. Facial waves of the flour of this creature, as if echo, diverge in the air around his head. This man (or a woman) seems to be concluded in his own cry and, so as not to hear him, squeezed her ears. It would be strange if there were no legends around this picture. Say that everyone who entered her contact is suffered from evil Roca. A museum employee who accidentally dropped the picture began to suffer from the strongest headaches and eventually committed suicide. Another employee who, apparently, was also the curves of his hands, dropped the picture and the next day fell into an accident. Someone even burned down a day after contact with the picture. 7. Another canvas that constantly accompany the trouble is "Venus with a mirror" Diego Velasqueza. The first owner of the painting - the Spanish merchant - broke, his trade worsened every day while most of His goods were not captured by pirates in the sea, and a few more ships drowned. Selling from the hammer, everything that he had, the merchant was sold and the picture. She acquired another Spaniard, also a merchant who owned rich warehouses in the port. Almost immediately after money was transferred for the cloth, the warehouses of the merchant caught fire from suddenly impaired lightning. The owner was ruined. And again auction, and again the picture is sold among the rest of the things, and again it buys a wealthy Spaniard ... After three days it was killed in own home With robbery. The picture after that could not find his new owner for a long time (her reputation was too tightened), and the canvas chaser in different museums, while in 1914, the crazy did not cut her with a knife.
8. "Demon defeated" Mikhail Vrubel had a detrimental effect on the psyche and the health of the artist himself. He could not break away from the painting, everything continued to add the face of the defeated spirit and change the flavor. "Demon defeated" already hung at the exhibition, and Vrubel came to the hall, not paying attention to visitors, sat in front of the picture and continued to work as if obsessed. The closest were concerned with his condition, and his famous Russian psychiatrist Behterev was examined. The diagnosis was terrible - dice of the spinal cord, close to madness and death. Vrubel was placed in the hospital, but the treatment helped poorly, and soon he died.

Practically in each meaningful work The arts have a mystery, "double bottom" or a secret story that you want to reveal.

Music on the buttocks

Jerome Bosch, "Garden of Earth Delights", 1500-1510.

Fragment of part of triptych

Disputes about the values \u200b\u200band hidden meanings of the most famous work dutch artist Do not subside from the moment of its appearance. On the right sash of triptych, entitled "Musical Hell", sinners were depicted, which tortured in the underworld with musical instruments. One of them has notes on the buttocks. A student of Christian University of Oklahoma Amelia Hamrik, who studied the picture, shifted the notation of the XVI century on modern Lad And recorded a "song from the ass from hell, which turned 500 years old."

Nude Mona Lisa

The famous "Joconda" exists in two versions: the nude version is called "Monta Bath", she wrote her a little-known artist Salaya, who was a student and a simulator of the great Leonardo da Vinci. Many art critics are confident that it was he who was a model for paintings by Leonardo "John Baptist" and "Bakhus". There are also versions that Salaya dressed in a women's dress served as the Mona Lisa itself.

Old fisherman

In 1902 hungarian artist Tivadar Kooky Chongwari wrote a picture "Old Fisherman". It would seem that there is nothing unusual in the picture, but Tivar laid the subtext in it, during the lifetime of the artist and undisclosed.

Few people occurred to apply the mirror to the middle of the picture. Each person can be like God (the right-handed old man's right shoulder) and the devil (the left shoulder of the old man is duplicated).

And was Kit?

Hendrik van Antonissen "Scene on the shore".

It would seem that, normal landscape. Boats, people on the shore and deserted sea. And only an X-ray study showed that people gathered on the shore is not just like that - in the original they considered the carcass of China, thrown ashore.

However, the artist decided that no one would want to look at the dead whale, and rewrote the picture.

Two "breakfast on the grass"

Eduard Mana, "Breakfast on the Grass", 1863.

Claude Monet, "Breakfast on the grass", 1865.

Artists Eduard Mana and Claude Monet are sometimes confused - after all, they were both French people, lived at one time and worked in the style of impressionism. Even the name of one of the most famous paintings by Mana "Breakfast on the Grass" Monet borrowed and wrote his "breakfast on the grass."

Doubles on the "Last Evening"

Leonardo da Vinci, "Last Supper", 1495-1498.

When Leonardo da Vinci wrote a "secret evening", he attached a special meaning to two figures: Christ and Judah. He was looking for simulators for them for a very long time. Finally, he managed to find a model for the image of Christ among young singers. To pick up a simulator for Judah Leonardo was not able for three years. But one day he came across the street on a drunkard, who was lying in a wastewater. It was a young man who was a non-digestion. Leonardo invited him to the restaurant, where he immediately began to write from him Judas. When the drinker came to himself, he told the artist that one day already posed him. It was a few years ago when he sang in the church choir, Leonardo wrote from Him Christ.

"Night Watch" or "Day"?

Rembrandt, "Night Watch", 1642.

One of the most famous paintings of Rembrandt "Speech by Rifle Company Captain France Bannang Coca and Lieutenant Villem Van Ryuteitbürga" about two hundred years has checked in different halls and was discovered by art historians only in the XIX century. Since it seemed that the figures perform on a dark background, she was called "Night Watch", and under this title she entered the treasury of world art.

And only during the restoration spent in 1947, it was discovered that in the hall the picture managed to be covered with a layer of soot, distorting her flavor. After clearing the original painting, it turned out that the scene represented by Rembrandt actually occurs during the day. The position of the shade from the left hand of Captain Coca shows that the time of action is not more than 14 hours.

Inverted boat

Henri Matisse, "Boat", 1937.

In the New York Museum modern art In 1961, a picture of Henri Matisse "Boat" was exhibited. Only after 47 days someone drew attention to the fact that the picture hangs upside down. On the canvas depicted 10 purple lines and two blue sails on a white background. Two sails, the artist painted not just like that, the second sail is a reflection of the first water.
In order not to make a mistake in how the picture should hang, you need to pay attention to the details. A larger sail must be the top of the picture, and the peak of the sail pattern should be directed to the right upper angle.

Cheating in self-portrait

Vincent Van Gogh, "Self-portrait with a tube", 1889.

The fact that Van Gogh allegedly cut off his ear, go legends. Now the most reliable is the version that the ear Van Gogh damaged in a small scuffle with the participation of another artist - Gogen fields.

Self-portrait is interesting in that reflects reality in distorted form: the artist is depicted with a bandaged right ear, because it used a mirror during operation. In fact, the left ear suffered.

Aliens Mishki

Ivan Shishkin, "Morning in Pine forest", 1889.

The famous painting belongs not only to the brush of Shishkin. Many artists who were friendly among themselves often resorted to the "help of a friend", and Ivan Ivanovich, had a whole life with landscapes, feared that touching bears would not work with him as it was necessary. Therefore, Shishkin appealed to the familiar animalist artist Konstantin Savitsky.

Savitsky painted hardly not the best bears in history russian paintingAnd the Tretyakov commanded the name of his surname from the canvas, since everything in the picture "Starting from the plan and ending with execution, everything speaks about the manner of painting, about the creative method, characteristic of Shishkin.

Innocent History "Gothic"

Grant Wood, " American Gothic", 1930.

The work of the Grant Wood is considered one of the strangest and depressants in history. american painting. The painting with gloomy father and daughter is filled with details that indicate the severity, puritancy and retrogradment of the people depicted.
In fact, the artist did not think of portraying any horror: during a trip to Iowa and he noticed a small house in the Gothic style and decided to portray those people who, in his opinion, would ideally come as inhabitants. In the form of characters, which are so offended by the inhabitants of Iowa, the sister of the grant and his dentist are immortalized.

Revenge of Salvador Dali

The picture "Figure by the window" was written in 1925, when Dali was 21 years old. Then the artist has not yet entered Gala, and his museum was Sister Ana Maria. The relationship of brother and sisters deteriorated when he wrote on one of the pictures "Sometimes I spit on the portrait of my own mother, and it gives me pleasure." Ana Maria could not forgive such a shock.

In his book of 1949, Salvador gave the eyes of her sister "she writes about his brother without any praise. The book led Salvador to rabies. Another ten after that, he was angry with each other case. And so, in 1954 a picture "The young virgin, indulging in Sodomsky sin with the help of horns of his own chastity appears." Pose of a woman, its curls, a landscape outside the window and the color scheme paintings are clearly echoing with the "window figure". There is a version that I was given a revengent sister for her book.

Double Dana

Rembrandt Harmens Wang Rhine, "Dana", 1636 - 1647.

Many secrets of one of the most famous paintings of Rembrandt were disclosed only in the 60s of the twentieth century, when the canvas enlightened x-rays. For example, shooting showed that in the early version, the face of the princess, which entered into a love relationship with Zeus, was similar to the face of Saskiy - the spouse of the painter, who died in 1642. At the final version of the picture, it began to resemble the face of Herges Dirks - Lovers Rembrandt, with which the artist lived after the death of his wife.

Yellow Bedroom Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, "Bedroom in Arles", 1888 - 1889.

In May 1888, Van Gogh acquired a small workshop in Arle, in the south of France, where he escaped from not understanding his Paris artists and critics. In one of the four rooms, Vincent places the bedroom. In October, everything is ready, and he decides to draw a "bedroom Van Gogh in Arles." For the artist, it was very important to flavor, the comfort of the rooms: everything should have been made to the thoughts on vacation. At the same time, the picture is withstanding in anxious yellow tones.

Van Gogh's creativity researchers explain this by the fact that the artist took a spatter - a remedy for epilepsy, which causes serious changes in the patient in color perception: all surrounding reality is painted in green-yellow tones.

Toothless perfection

Leonardo da Vinci, "Portrait of Mrs. Liza Del Jocondo", 1503 - 1519.

The generally accepted opinion is that Mona Lisa is perfection and a smile is beautiful with his mysteriousness. However, American art historian (and part-time dentist) Joseph Borkovsky believes that, judging by the expression of the face, the heroine lost a lot of teeth. Studying enlarged photos of the masterpiece, Borkovski also discovered the scars around her mouth. "She smiles like that because of what happened to her," the expert believes. - The expression of her face is typically for people who have lost its front teeth. "

Major on facingontrol

Pavel Fedotov, "Major's Major", 1848.

The public, who first saw the picture of Major's "Watchtime," laughed from the soul: Fedotov's artist filled with ironic details, understandable viewers of that time. For example, Major is clearly not familiar with the rules of the noble etiquette: he appeared without laid bouquets for the bride and her mother. And the bride itself, her merchant parents discharged into the evening ball gown, although in the yard day (all the lamps in the room are extinguished). The girl clearly first tried a decolted dress, confused and tries to escape into his bel.

Why freedom is naked

Ferdinan Victor Eugene Delakrua, "Freedom on the barricades", 1830.

According to the art historian Etienne Juli, Delacroix wrote the face of a woman with the famous Parisian revolutionaries - Anna-Charlotte's missure, which went to the barricades after the death of his brother from the hands of royal soldiers and killed the Ninter Guardsmen. The artist depicted it with naked breasts. According to him, this is a symbol of fearlessness and dedication, as well as the celebrations of democracy: Nagaya chest shows that freedom, as a simple hat, is not a corset.

Unquadant square

Kazimir Malevich, "Black Suprematic Square", 1915.

In fact, the "black square" is not at all black and not at all square: none of the sides of the quadrangle is not parallel to any other side, and not one of the sides of the square frame, which the picture is framed. BUT dark color - this is the result of mixing different colors, among which was not black. It is believed that it was not the negligence of the author, but a fundamental position, the desire to create a dynamic, moving form.

Specialists of the Tretyakov Gallery found the author's inscription on famous picture Malevich. The inscription states: "Battle of blacks in a dark cave." This phrase sends to the name of the joking picture of the French journalist, the writer and the artist Alfons Alla "Battle of Blacks in the Dark Cave of Deep At night", which was absolutely black rectangle.

Melodrama of the Austrian Mona Lisa

Gustav Klimt, "Portrait of Adelie Bloch-Bauer", 1907.

On one of the most significant climes, the wife of Austrian sugar magnate Fetinad Bloch Bauer was captured. All Vienna discussed stormy Roman Adele I. the famous artist. A vulnerable husband wanted to take revenge on lovers, but chose a very unusual way: he decided to order a portrait of the portrait of Adeli and make him make hundreds of sketches until the artist starts turning away from her.

Bloch Bauer wanted work to last for several years, and a simulator could see how the feelings of Clima could fuss. He made an artist a generous proposal, from which he could not refuse, and everything developed on the scenario of a deceived husband: the work was completed for 4 years, lovers have long cooled to each other. Adel Bloch Bauer never learned that her husband was aware of her relationship with Clima.

Picture that returned Gogen to life

Paul Gajen, "Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?", 1897-1898.

Most famous cloth Gauguen has one feature: it is "read" without left to right, but on the right to left, as the Kabbalistic texts that the artist was interested in. It is in this order that the allegory of the spiritual and physical life of a person unfolds: from the origin of the soul (sleeping child in the lower right corner) to the inevitability of the death hour (bird with a lizard in claws in the lower left corner).

The picture was written by Gogen on Tahiti, where the artist ran several times from civilization. But this time, life on the island did not specify: total poverty led him to depression. Having finished the canvas, which should have become his spiritual testament, Gauguen took a box with arsenic and went to the mountains to die. However, he did not calculate the dose, and suicide failed. In the next morning, he, swing, did not know the hut and fell asleep, and when he woke up, he felt the forgotten thirst for life. And in 1898, his affairs went uphill, and in the work began their bright period.

112 proverbs on one picture

Peter Bruegel - Senior, "Netherlands Proverbs", 1559

Peter Bruegel - Senior depicted the land inhabited by literal images netherlands Proverbs Those days. In a written picture, there are approximately 112 recognized idioms. Some of them are used to this day, for example, such as: "Fly against the current", "fight your head about the wall", "armed to teeth" and "Big fish eats a small one."

Other proverbs reflect human nonsense.

Subjectivity of art

Paul Gogen, "Breton village under the snow", 1894

The painting of Gogen "Breton village in the snow" was sold after the death of the author in just seven francs and, moreover, called Niagara Falls. A man who spent auction accidentally hung up a picture of his legs, seeing a waterfall in it.

Hidden painting

Pablo Picasso, Blue Room, 1901

In 2008, infrared radiation showed that a "blue room" was hidden another image - a portrait of a man dressed in a suit with a butterfly and put her head on his hand. "As soon as Picasso appeared new ideaHe was taken for the brush and embody her. But he had no opportunity to buy a new canvas every time a muse was attended, "explains possible cause This art criticism of Patricia Favero.

Inaccessible Moroccanika

Zinaida Serebryakova, "Nagaya", 1928

Once Zinaida Serebryakova received a tempting offer - to go to creative journeyTo portray nude figures of Eastern V. But it turned out that in those places to find simators simply impossible. A translator of Zinaida came to the rescue - he led her sisters and a bride to her. No one before that and after that failed to capture the closed eastern women Nude.

Spontaneous illusion

Valentin Serov, "Portrait of Nicholas II in a pressURE", 1900

For a long time, Serov could not write a portrait of the king. When the artist surrendered at all, he apologized to Nikolai. Nikolai was a little upset, sat down at the table, stretching his hands in front of him ... And then the artist painted - here it is an image! Simple military in an officer's tuber with clean and sad eyes. This portrait is considered the best image of the last emperor.

Again Double

© Fedor Reshetnikov

The famous painting "Again Two" is just the second part of the artistic trilogy.

The first part is "arrived on vacation." Obviously secured family, winter holidays, a joyful student student.

The second part is "again deuce." The poor family from the working outskirts, the midst of the school year, Puraden Oballa, again grabbed the two. In the upper left corner, the picture "arrived on vacation" was visible.

The third part is "re-examination". Country house, Summer, all walk, one malicious unclear, having failed annual exam, is forced to sit in four walls and tool. In the upper left corner, a picture "Two again" is visible.

How masterpieces are born

Joseph Turner, "Rain, Couples and Speed", 1844

In 1842, Mrs. Simon traveled by train in England. Suddenly began a strong shower. The elderly gentleman, who was sitting opposite her, got up, opened the window, stuck his head and looked at ten minutes. Unable to keep your curiosity, the woman also opened the window and began to look ahead. A year later, she found a picture of "rain, couples and speed" at the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts and was able to recognize the same episode in it.

Anatomy lesson from Michelangelo

Michelangelo, "Creation of Adam", 1511

A pair of American experts in the field of neuroanatomy believe that Michelangelo actually left some anatomical illustrations in one of his most famous works. They believe that in the right part of the picture depicts a huge brain. It is surprising, but you can find even complex components, such as a cerebellum, optic nerves and pituitary gland. And the cast green ribbon perfectly coincides with the location of the vertebral artery.

"Last Supper" Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, "Night Terrace Cafe", 1888

Explorer Jared Baxter believes that on the canvas Van Gogh "Night Terrace Cafe" is encrypted by the dedication of the "secret evening" Leonardo da Vinci. In the center of the picture there is a waiter with long hair And in a white tunic, reminding the clothes of Christ, and around him exactly 12 visitors cafe. Also Baxter draws attention to the cross, located right behind the waiter's back in white.

Dali's memory

Salvador Dali, "Constancy of Memory", 1931

It is no secret that the thoughts attending Dali during the creation of his masterpieces were always in the form of very realistic images that the artist then transferred to the canvas. So, according to the author himself, the picture "Constancy of Memory" was written as a result of associations arising at the form of a melted cheese.

What screams munk

Edward Munk, Creek, 1893.

Munk so told about the appearance of the idea of \u200b\u200bone of the most mysterious paintings in world painting: "I walked along the path with two friends - the sun was sat down - the sky unexpectedly became bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaning about the fence - I looked at Blood and flame languages \u200b\u200bover a bluish-black fjord and the city - my friends went further, and I stood, trembling from excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature. " But what kind of sunset could scare the artist?

There is a version that the idea of \u200b\u200b"scream" was born at Mill in 1883, when several strongest eruptions of Krakataau volcano occurred - so powerful that they changed the temperature of the atmosphere of the Earth to one degree. Abundant amount of dust and ash spread throughout ground Shar., coming even to Norway. Several evenings in a row, the sunsets looked as if, the apocalypse would be - one of them was the source of the artist's inspiration.

Writer in the people

Alexander Ivanov, "The Phenomenon of Christ People", 1837-1857.

Dozens of simulators posed Alexander Ivanov for him main Painting. One of them is known for no less than the artist. In the background, among the traverses and Roman horsemen, who have not yet heard the preaching of John the Forerunners, you can see the character in Korchin Chiton. His Ivanov wrote from Nicholas Gogol. The writer tightly communicated with the artist in Italy, in particular on religious issues, and gave him advice in the process of writing the picture. Gogol believed that Ivanov "had long died for the whole world, except for his work."

Gout Michelangelo

Rafael Santi, Athens School, 1511.

Creating famous fresco Athens School, Rafael perpetuated his friends and acquaintances in the images of ancient Greek philosophers. One of them was Michelangelo Buonotti "In the role of" Herclite. Several centuries fresco kept secrets personal life Michelangelo, and modern researchers did the assumption that the strangely angry knee of the artist testifies to the presence of sickness of the joints.

It is likely to consider the characteristics of the lifestyle and the working conditions of the artists of the Renaissance and Chronic Workaholism Michelangelo.

Mirror couple Arnolphini

Yang Van Eyk, "Portrait of Arnolphin Fau", 1434

In the mirror behind Arnolphin's spouses, you can see the reflection of two more people in the room. Most likely, these are witnesses present at the conclusion of the contract. One of them is Van Eyke, as evidenced by the Latin inscription, placed, contrary to tradition, above the mirror in the center of the composition: "Jan Van Eyk was here." So usually fastened contracts.

As a flaw turned into a talent

Rembrandt Harmens Wang Rhine, "Self-portrait at the age of 63", 1669.

Researcher Margaret Livingston studied all Rembrandt self portraits and found that the artist suffered from a squint: in the images, his eyes are looking at different sidesWhat is not observed on portraits of other people masters brushes. The disease led to the fact that the artist could better perceive reality in two dimensions than people with normal vision. This phenomenon is called "stereo" - the inability to see the world in 3D. But since the painter has to work with a two-dimensional image, it was this deficiency of Rembrandt that could be one of the explanations of his phenomenal talent.

Sure Venus

Sandro Botticelli, "Birth of Venus", 1482-1486.

Before the appearance of the birth of Venus, the image of Naked female body In painting symbolized only the idea of \u200b\u200boriginal sin. Sandro Botticelli The first of the European painters did not find anything sinful in it. Moreover, art historians are confident that the pagan goddess of love symbolizes on the fresco christian image: Her phenomenon is the allegory of the Renaissance of the soul, who passed the rite of baptism.

Butterist or butcher?

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, "Butterist", 1596.

For a long time, the picture was exhibited in the Hermitage called "Butcher's". Only at the beginning of the twentieth century, art historians agreed that the canvase still shows the young man (probably Caravaggio posed his familiar artist Mario Minni): On the notes in front of the musician, the recording of the bass party Madrigala Jacob Arcaader "You know that I love you" . A woman could hardly make such a choice - it's just hard for the throat. In addition, a lute, like a violin at the very edge of the picture, was considered a male tool in the era of Caravaggio.