ГДЗ Английский язык за 8 класс Афанасьева, Михеева, Баранова - Rainbow English - Учебник. Часть 2Unit 4 – Step 8 – 1

🔊 The speaker says that this painter lived in the 15th century and was a man of many talents.

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🔊 Leonardo da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all times but he was also a scientist, a musician, an architect, an engineer and a writer. Some of his paintings including "Madonna Benois" and "Madonna Litta" are in the Hermitage collection in St Petersburg.

🔊 The speaker says that this painter died very young.

🔊 The speaker says that this painter didn’t spend the last years of his life in his motherland.

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🔊 Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. Everybody in Russia knows his Alexander Pushkin’s portrait that was finished in 1827. Orest spent some time abroad where he studied art. He came back to Russia and lived in Moscow, Tver and St Petersburg. He spent his last years in Italy where he died in 1836.

🔊 The speaker says that nearly all works of this painter are in the country where he was born.

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🔊 Edward Munch was born in 1863 and died in 1944. He is a Norwegian painter and graphic artist. He studied in Oslo, in Paris and travelled a lot in Europe. Among Munch’s strongest and best-known works are "The Scream" and "The Kiss". Practically all his paintings are in Norwegian collections.

🔊 The speaker says that this painter got his first studio from his father and mother.

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🔊 Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Spain. His parents built him his first studio in the south of the country. Many of his paintings show his love for this part of Spain where he spent many years with his wife Gala. Dali became internationally known in 1925 when three of his pictures, "The Basket of Bread" among them, were shown in Pittsburgh, the USA.

🔊 The speaker says that the painter began his career much later than he showed his talent.

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🔊 John Constable, the world-famous English painter, is considered to be one of the leading figures in the 19th century painting. He became interested in painting at a very early age but he didn’t devote himself to art until he was 23, when he went to London to study. His famous picture "The Hay Wain" is in the National Gallery.