CD masters of the portrait

The French word Portrait (portrait) has become a designation of the genre of fine art, reflecting the appearance of a person conveying both its individual characteristics and typical features of the era, and most importantly revealing the character properties and the spiritual world of the model. As a genre, the portrait appeared several millennia ago in ancient art. However, the heyday of the portrait genre began in the Renaissance, when many famous masters of that time turned to portrait painting.
Our publication will introduce you to the history of the portrait genre, as well as the best portraitists of different countries and eras. Here we will talk in detail about the European, American and Russian schools of portrait painting, starting from the 15th century to the twentieth century. Let"s get acquainted with the life and work of famous painters: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Raphael Santi, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Goya, Van Gogh, Zhf. Mille, E. Manet, E. Degas, P. Cezanna, O. Renoir, Gauguen Fields, A. Modeling, F.S. Rokotova, V.A. Tropinina, I.E. Repina, O.A. Kiprensky, K.P. Bryullova, I.N. Kramsky, V.A. Serov and many others.
The reproductions contained on the disk, and there are more than 200 of them, will clearly and in detail illustrate the history of the portrait, the unique style and skill of artists. The system of links from illustrations allows you to examine in detail each of the presented paintings.
System requirements: Pentium II, 256 MB of RAM, 24-X CD-ROM, OS Windows 98/NT/2000/XP