Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Lev Lagorio

Lev Feliksovich Lagorio (1828-1905) was a Russian landscape painter.

 Batum (1881)

 By the Sea, Crimea (1889)

 Cutting Ice (1849)

 In the Caucasus Mountains (1870)

Lofoten Island (1895)

 Moonlit Night on the Neva River (1898)

 Northern Landscape (1872)

 On Shore (1899)

 Scene in Porto (1901)

View of the Neva River and the Peter and Paul Fortress

Monday, May 21, 2012

Konstantin Trutovsky

Konstantin Trutovsky (1826-1893) was a Ukranian-Russian painter.

 By the Well

 Christmas Caroling in the Ukraine

 City Travellers Being Offered Fruit at a Ukrainian Roadside Dwelling (1873)

 In the Hayloft (1872)

Round Dance in Kursk Province

Friday, May 18, 2012

Alexei Bogolyubov

Alexei Bogolyubov (1824-1896) was a landscape painter.

 Illumination of the Kremlin (1883)

 St. Petersburg at Sunset (1850)

 Riding on Neva River (1854)

 The Ipatievsky Monastery Near Kostroma (1861)

 View of the Smolny Convent from the Great Ohta (1851)

Winter in Borisoglebsk

Easter Procession in Yaroslavl (1863)

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Vasili Maksimov

Vasili Maksimov (1844-1911) painted mostly genre scenes.

 At the Monastery Gate

 The Division of the Family Property (1876)

 Field of Rye

The next painting is quite a celebrated work

 It's All in the Past (1889)

 Sewing of the Dowry (1866)

The Boy Mechanic (1871)

 The Diploma

 The Forest Keeper (1893)

 Trying on a Robe 

  View of the City of Rybinsk

Who's There?

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Nikolay Kasatkin

Nikolay Kasatkin (1859-1930) was a rare example of a Tsarist-era painter who successfully transitioned to the Soviet era.

 In the Anteroom of the District Court (1897)

 The Orphans

 Rival Ladies (1890)

What follows is one of the most dramatic, emotional paintings I've ever seen. A soldier has come home from service to find his wife has had a child with another man. Incandescent with rage, he asks simply, "Who?" One gets from the wife an impression of shame, fear, but perhaps also resistance to answering the question. Obviously, paintings with infidelity as a theme have been done the world over, but the sheer rawness and emotional honesty of this painting could only (at least in the 19th century) be found in the Russian tradition.

Who? (1897)

 Poor People Collecting Coal in an Abandoned Pit (1894)

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Fedor Bronnikov

Fedor Andreyevich Bronnikov (1827–1902) painted historical scenes.

 At the Chapel (date not known)

 Consecration of the Herm (1874)

 Cursed Field - Place for Execution in Ancient Rome, Crucified Slaves (1878)

Pythagoreans' Hymn to the Rising Sun (1869)

 The Roman Baths (1858)

Parable of Lazarus (1886)

Monday, May 14, 2012

Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko

Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1835-1890) was a Ukranian-born painter who specialized in painting historical scenes.

 Charon Carries Souls across the River Styx (1889)

 Ivan IV of Russia Demonstrates his Treasures to the Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth (1875)

 The Italian envoy Calvucchi Sketches the Favorite Falcons of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich (1889)

Young Tsar Alexis Praying Before the Relics of Metropolitan Philip 
in the Presence of Patriarch Nikon (1886)