(1769–1821) First Consul of the French Republic (1799–1804) Emperor of the French (1804–1815) President of the Italian Republic (1802–1805) King of Italy (1805–1814) Napoléon in Literature: • Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950): The Man of Destiny (1898) Napoléon in Art: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Busto di Napoleone c.1802…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Benois 1478–1480 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 49.5 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg One of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance era, Leonardo da Vinci combined the talents of artist and scientist, inventor…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Carnaval, Boulevard des Capucines (Carnival on the Boulevard des Capucines) 1873 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Boulevard des Capucines (Paris)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Arii Vahine (The King’s Wife) 1896 Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Opened: 1912 Location: 12 Volkhonka, 121019 Moscow Website: https://pushkinmuseum.art/?lang=en Collection: • Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903): Te Arii Vahine (1896) • Ingres, J. A. D. (1780-1867): La Vierge à l’hostie (1841) • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883): Méry Laurent au carlin (1882) • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883): Portrait d’Antonin Proust (c.1877) • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): Carnaval, boulevard des Capucines (1873) • Renoir,…
Museums: • Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts: 12 Volkhonka, 121019 Moscow Births: • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881) • Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837) Deaths: • Bondarchuk, Sergei (1920-1994) • Gogol, Nikolai (1809-1852) See also: • Cities | Russia
(1828–1910) Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Works: • A Confession (English) ◊ Ma confession (French) • A Critical Essay on Shakespeare (English) • A Letter to a Hindu (English) • A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories (English) • Anna Karenina (English) ◊ Anna Karenina (Dutch) ◊ Anna…
