Portrait
Denis Mikhailovsky
Painting.
Copies
Still Life  
Landscape
Copies
Copies. The practice of copying masterpieces has been one of the cornerstones of traditional art education for a long time. Michelangelo's  father sent him for formal schooling, but Michelangelo preferred copying paintings in churches. He later befriended arts and studied with some of the great painter and sculptors of his time. But he thought that he could learn more by copying the masters. In museums around the world, you can see artists creating copies paintings. In Louvre in Paris, you can see a stream of artists copying their great paintings.