Thursday, August 2, 2012

Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) was a Russian painter.

 At the School Door (1897)

 Breakfast

 By the Green Lamp

 Country Friends (1912)

 Crossing

 Mental Arithmetic in the Public School of S. Rachinskiy (1895)

 New Tale (1891)

 Reading a Letter (1892)

 Reading the Newspaper. War News (1905)

Schoolgirls (1901)

Sunday Reading in Village School (1895)

The Teacher's Guests

 The Teacher's Name-Day

 Virtuoso (1891)

Visit of the Unhealthy Teacher (1897)

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Nikolay Dubovskoy

Nikolay Dubovskoy (1859-1918) was a Russian landscape painter.

 A Rainbow (1892)

 Dacha in Sillamyagi (1907)

 Evening in Ukraine

 Frosty Morning (1894)

Silence Has Settled (1890)

 The Rainbow

 Seascape

 The Volga River (1894)

Twilight (1897)

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Vasiliy Vereshchagin

Vasiliy Vereshchagin (1842-1904) was a Russian realist painter who specialized in battle scenes and scenes of travel through Asiatic regions.

After Setbacks (1868)

 At the Fortress Wall. "Let them enter!" (1871)

 Battlefield Near Shipka Pass (1881)

 Bayonet Charge (1895)

 Before Attack near Plevna (1877-78)

 Captured with Arms? Shoot Them! (1895)

 A Crucifixion by the Romans (1887)

 Dressing of the Bride 

 Hemis Monastery in Ladakh (1875)

In Jerusalem. Royal Tombs (1885)

Monday, July 30, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

Your Monday helping of Aivazovsky.

 Crimea

 Crimean Tartars on the Sea Shore (1850)

 Darial Gorge (1868)

 Dusk on the Golden Horn (1845)
 [what is the Golden Horn?]

 Exploding Ship (1900)

 Fight Steamer Vesta, with the Turkish Battleship Vechta-Bulend in the Black Sea, July 11, 1877

 Figures in a Coastal Landscape at Sunset

 Fishermen on the Coast of the Sea (1852)

 Fishermen Returning Near Naples (detail) (1874)

Flock of Sheep in a Storm (1861)

Friday, July 27, 2012

A Bunch of Mikhails

 Mikhail Balunin: Conversation Outside a Teahouse

 Mikhail Berkos: Street in Uman (1895)

 Mikhail Petrovich Botkin: Vespers in the Church of St. Francis in Assisi in 1871

 Mikhail Scotti: Minin and Pozharsky (1851)

 Mikhail Vatutin Emelianovich: The Tutor

Mikhail Zichy: The Performance in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre on the Occasion of the Holy Coronation of Emperor Alexander II

Mikhail Klodt: The Sick Musician (1859)