Tip 1: How to find Raphael's missing picture

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Tip 1: How to find Raphael's missing picture

In the early days of August 2012 representativesPolish government in communication with the press several times reported that a picture of the Italian artist Rafael Santi was found. Art critics call it "Portrait of a Young Man" and consider it to be the most valuable work of art lost during the Second World War.

How to find the missing picture of Raphael

In 1798 the picture was bought by the Polish princeAdam Jerzy Czartoryski and has since belonged to his family. The time of writing the canvas is referred to experts as 1513 or 1514. Who exactly is depicted on it is unknown, but some critics suggest that this is a self-portrait of a great Italian. By the time of the occupation of Poland by the Nazis, the picture was kept in the Krakow Museum. Together with other values of the Czartoryski family, including the famous canvas by Leonardo Da Vinci "The Lady with Ermine", in 1939 it was confiscated by the Germans for Hitler's personal museum in Linz (Fuhrermuseum). The latest information about the picture is dated 1945. According to the information available to the press in mid-August 2012, no details about how the picture of the great artist was found was found. Moreover, it is clear from the interviews that the officials have hitherto given that there are very few details in this story. The only concrete information about the present state of the missing canvas was stated in a statement by a spokesman for the press service of the Polish Department for the Return of Cultural Property under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said that Raphael's picture is kept in one of the bank vaults, but neither the cell number nor the name of the bank, nor even the country in which it is located, is known in the ministry. Therefore, the statement that the picture was found looks somewhat premature. After all, even after the canvas is in the hands of representatives of the state or the previous owner (the Czartoryski family), specialists have many months of work to establish the authenticity of the picture. However, it is possible that this premature statement is part of some game of special services or diplomats that is being conducted with the aim of returning such a valuable work of art to Poland. So far, only a very small percentage of cultural values lost by the Poles during World War II have been returned to their current owners voluntarily.

Tip 2: Which pictures are famous and who wrote them

The most ungrateful occupation is the evaluation andformation of ratings in art. It is impossible to compare Mendelssohn's waltz and "Ave Maria" aria, "Mona Lisa" and "Black Square", "The Lay of Igor's Host" and Goethe's poems. All these beautiful, ingenious creations of a person should be simply watched, listened and stored.

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"The Ninth Wave." The painting is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. On a canvas measuring 221x332 cm, the great Russian seascapist Ivan Aivazovsky in 1850 described the struggle with the elements of four sailors who were shipwrecked. The huge blue-green waves, illuminated by the setting luminary, are about to overflow the fragment of the mast - the last support of the unfortunate people. Aivazovsky wrote more than six thousand works, and all of them were recognized during the life of the author. The artist created quickly. One of his famous paintings was written during the lesson in the art school as an example for students.

The painting "Mona Lisa" ("La Gioconda") is inParis in the Louvre, was written by the great artist Leonardo da Vinci in 1505. The whole world learned about it after in 1911 the canvas was stolen by a museum employee. Historians-art historians have established the name of the woman depicted in the famous painting. She was the wife of a merchant from Florence Lisa Gerardini. Her mysterious smile became the theme of many new works, philosophical reflections and debates.

Picture "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich,created in 1915, still causes mixed views, disputes and various conclusions. Everyone can take a white sheet and draw a black square on it, but only Malevich first guessed to make a picture of him, calling it the apex of everything. The profound philosophical meaning embedded in this canvas makes the "Black Square" one of the most famous works of mankind, with which everyone can meet at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

In New York at the Museum of Modern ArtThe picture of Salvador Dali "The permanence of memory" (1931) is kept. The modern theory of the relativity of time and only appeared classical impressionism successfully blended on a canvas with a size of only 24x33 cm. It depicts the current soft clock. Dali argued that this idea was prompted by the appearance of just the melted cheese.

"Sistine Madonna" by Raphael (1512)) is now in Dresden at the Old Masters Gallery. A huge canvas (256x196 cm) was designed to decorate the altar in the monastery. It shows a woman with a baby in her arms. To her right the Holy indicates the direction of the Madonna, Saint Varvara inclined her head to the left. The background is a set of small angel's heads. Two angels perched at the very bottom of the picture.