Ivan Kramskoy

Ivan Kramskoy (1837-1887) was a prominent Russian painter who specialized in portraits.

 Christ in the Wilderness (1872)

 Moonlit Night (1880)

 Outraged Jewish Boy (1874)

 Peasant with a Bridle (1883)

 Portrait of Empress Maria Fiodorovna in a Head Dress Decorated with Pearls (1880s)

 Portrait of Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (1874)

[Goncharov was a Russian novelist]

 Portrait of Ivan Shishkin (1873)

[Shishkin was probably the greatest Russian painter of nature]

 Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1873)

 Portrait of Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1878)

[Akaskov was another Russian writer]

Portrait of a Woman (1883)

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

Some more Aivazovsky to start the week:

 American Shipping off the Rock of Gibraltar (1873)

 Azure Grotto, Naples (1841)

 Battle of Çesme at Night (1848)

 Battle of Navarino (1846)

 Battle of Sinop (1853)

 Battle of Vyborg Bay (1846)

 Between the Waves (1898)

 Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia (1890)

 Boat Ride by Kumkapi in Constantinople (1846)

Bosphorus, the Golden Horn

Alexei Stepanovich Stepanov

Alexei Stepanovich Stepanov (1858-1923) was a Russian painter.

After the Hunt (1894)

 

 Arrival of the Teacher

 Laundresses in Vichy 

 Manor in the Summer

 Morning Greetings

 On the Volga

 Roundelay

 The Cranes Fly (1891)

To Pasture

Karl Briullov

Karl Briullov (1799-1852) was a Russian painter in the Neoclassic tradition.

 Bahchisaraiskiy Fountain (1849)

 Bathsheba (1832)

Countess Samoilova Leaves the Ball with the Adoptive Daughter of A. Paccini (1841)

 Italian Midday (1827)

 Italian Morning (1823)

 The Last Day of Pompeii (1833)

[about this painting] [more about this painting]

 Portrait of Maria Arkadyevna Bek

 Portrait of Mariya Arkadyevna Bek with her Daughter (1839)

 Portrait of Princess Z.A. Volkonskaya (1842)

 Portrait of the Shishmariov Sisters (1839)

 Siege of Pskov by Poland King Stefan Batory in 1581 (1843)

Portrait of the Brightest Princess Elezabeta Pavlovna Saltykova (1841)

Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky

Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky (1837-1892) was a Russian painter of Georgian origin.

 Carnival (1889)

 Home (1881)

 Market in Fontainebleau (1864)

Mail Carrier (1861)

Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942) painted scenes of Orthodox religious mysticism.

 Appearance of the Mother of God (1910s)

 Girls on the Shore

 Holy Rus (1905)

 Portrait of O. M. Nesterova, Daughter of the Artist (1905)

Portrait of Olga Nesterova, Woman in a Riding Habit (1906)

 Seeking a Love Potion (1888)

 Taking the Veil (1897-98)

  The Desert Fathers and the Wife Without Fault (1932)

 The Hermit (1888-89)

 The Philosophers Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov (1917)

[about Pavel Florensky] [about Sergei Bulgakov]

 The Soul of the Russian People (1916)

The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890-91)

[depicting the conversion of medieval Russian saint Sergii Radonezhsky]