The painting was painted in 1888 in Naples (Italy), and is currently in the St. Petersburg State Museum of the History of Religion. The materials used for the creation were paper and oil. Appeal to biblical images runs a red thread through the whole work of Aivazovsky, deep religiosity is inherent in paintings on the events and personalities of the New Testament.

Sylvester Shchedrin, growing up in a family of artists, decided to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and devote his life to drawing. The most realistic transfer of natural motifs, embodying the feelings and impression of the author from the spectacle, became the main task of Sylvester Shchedrin. A visit to Naples helped the artist feel the beauty of this land and breathed inspiration into it.

Vereshchagin’s work would be incomplete if he did not have a series of Balkan works. The painting “Before the attack. Under Plevna, which dates from 1881. It is an illustration of the attack of Russian soldiers on Turkish. The viewer is presented with a whole line of soldiers, which is located diagonally.

The painting "Portrait of Count A. The work is not finished. Genre - portrait. The painting shows the writer Count Alexei Alekseevich Perovsky, whom viewers know more under the pseudonym Anthony Pogorelsky. Many are well aware of his magical story "Black Chicken, or Underground Residents." The portrait is sitting at the window in home clothes.

Robert is a famous 18th-century landscape painter from enlightened France. It so happened that having studied the basics of painting and sculpture at home, the young artist was sent to Rome. It was Italy that later became the main inspirer of the paintings of Hubert Robert. The beginning painter adopted a lot from the Italian master Piranesi, who then worked in Rome.

Date of writing - 1881. In the picture, the artist depicted his family: his wife - Yu. P. Makovskaya, children - Konstantin, Alexander, Elena. The teacher accompanies the children on a walk. A genre scene is in front of the viewer. The family went for a walk. Mom is located on the grass under a tree. From hot sunshine it closes with a bright red umbrella - nature is in the midst of the day.