The genius of Da Vinci A very interesting exhibition The Genius of Da Vinci is opened at the Museum of Artillery from the 1st of October to the 16th of December, 2011. You can see fantastic projects of Da Vinci as an inventor, artist, sculptor, architect, engineer, chemist, botanist, anatomist, philosopher, poet...
More comments: 0 Rating: + 6 photos: 9 An optimist artist-surrealist 20.07.11 Saint-Petersburg Антон
I live nearby and each time passing by this place I see this elderly gentleman sitting on the mound and next to him there are two pictures in A4 format, one of them is a picture itself the other is a note. These pictures are very unusual. One time I saw African Papuans playing the ethnic drums and below the note “African SMS”, next time it was a...
More comments: 10 Rating: + 12 photos: 0 To A.G. Venetsianov Since 2004 on the 2nd floor wall of the building hangs this temporary “fitting board” saying: “The associate college of advocates donates the memorial plaque dedicated to notable Russian artist Alexei Gavrilovich Venetsianov to the great city”. This offer to make the monument dedicated to Alexei Venetsianov, one of the founders of Russian genre...
More comments: 2 Rating: + 6 photos: 3 A round yard (the yard of the Academy of Fine Arts) Next to Blagoveschensky bridge there is a building with unusual configuration – this is the Academy of Fine Arts on the Neva River (architects Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, A. F. Kokorinov, Y. M. Felten, 1764-1788, classicism).
It is the world largest ROUND YARD (the composition is based on a circle inscribed in a rectangle). There lead 4...
More comments: 6 Rating: + 19 photos: 9 “Izuminka” kindergarten gallery Next to the Russian Museum art reproductions there is another ‘mini-gallery’. There are fewer pictures over there, and the artists’ age will make you respect and admire them. The students of the kindergarten “Izuminka” paint with all their hearts.
More comments: 1 Rating: + 6 photos: 8 Kuindzhi’s flat-museum This is a wonderful place of the city of St. Petersburg – a flat where used to live a legendary master of the landscape Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi. This is a cozy museum, with a perfect view. It’s got perfect light, since it used to be an attic workshop. Besides, the friendly museum staff will lead an interesting excursion-conversation for you.
More comments: 5 Rating: + 11 photos: 1 An artisAn artist near the Saviour's Church-on-a-Bloodt near the Saviour's Church-on-a-Blood Passing the bridge near the Saviour's Church-on-a-Blood we can see an artist in a black beret: bearded and gray-haired man, with his easel and, accordingly, brushes ...
The same cathedral is always seen on the easel - now I can't just understand, is it a one picture, or he draws different every day?
He responds everybody to a...
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