Realism, and romanticism, and surrealism are merged togetherIn one picture. To hold onto such a height of spirit is difficult even for the spectator - how does the artist lived with such a worldview?
4. This work shows the artist's commitment to the Italian school of painting, which has allegorical themes. Jupiter draws butterflies, and Mercury is distracted by Virtue, but can not speak to her. The artist was able to accurately paint the characters of the Gods. The landscape in the background was very successful for the artist. ?heckered light and shade, which is presented in the work, gives it realism. The image of Mercury is painted very accurately. The picture shows the usual rest time of the gods.
3. The figure of the main character of the picture, Hercules, is written in a complicated pose. In addition, the painter somewhat distorts it, in order to emphasize the relief of the muscles of the hero. I think that it is a pathbreaking painting method. Annibale Carracci was the first artist, who used this mythological plot. About the choice of Hercules between the path of vice and the paths of virtue, he could learn from ancient literature, where this story appears many times.
2. Caravaggio drew his "Fortune-Teller" on the controversy. This beautiful picture, on which a young gentleman is fortune telled by a woman in a turban, was born as an argument in the controversy of temperamental Italians about the correlation of the ideal and reality in art. A fashion suit, sitting well on a young man,tells the viewer about his narcissism, and the fortune-teller wants to steal his rings while she would tell him a fortune. So Caravaggio immortalized the image of the Byzantine Gypsy in his painting. A real gypsy was posed for his picture. This helped the artist achieve unprecedented realism.
