Thursday, August 9, 2012

Konstantin Makovsky

Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915) was a Russian painter specializing in portraits and historical scenes.

 A Boyar Wedding Feast in the 17th Century (1883)

 Appeal of Minin to the People of Nizhny Novgorod (1896)

 A Boyarina by the Window (1885)

Charon Ferries Dead Souls across the River Styx (1861)

 Children Running from a Thunderstorm (1872)

 False Dmitry's Agents Murdering Feodor Godunov and his Mother (1862)

 Funeral of a Child (1872)

 Happy Arcadia (1890)

 In the Garden (ca. 1870)

In the Park (ca. 1881)

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Vasily Surikov

Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) was a Russian painter of historical scenes and portraits.

City Girl. Portrait of Alexandra Ivanovna Emelianova, nee Schrader (1902)

 Monument to Peter I on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg (1870)

 Morning of the Execution of Streltsy by Tsar Peter I (1881)

 Portrait of L.T. Matorin (1892)

 Portrait of N.F. Matveeva (1909)

 Portrait of Princess P.I. Scherbatova (1910)

Russian Troops under Suvorov Crossing the Alps (1899)

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Alexei Savrasov

Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) was a Russian landscape painter.

A Spring Day (1873)

 Early Spring, High Water (1868)

 Evening. Migration of Birds (1874)

 Forest in the Frost (1890)

 The Rooks Have Come Back (1871)

 Rural View (1867)

 The Rye Field (1881)

 Spring Thaw, Yaroslavl (1874)

Sukharev Tower (1872)

Monday, August 6, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

Your Monday dose of Aivazovsky.

Frigate Under Sail (1838)

 Frozen Bosphorus Under Snow (detail) (1874)

 Gunboat off Crete (1897)

 Ice on the Dniepr River (1872)

 Ice-Breakers on the Frozen Neva in St. Petersburg (1877)

 Icebergs in Antarctica (1870)

 In the Storm (1872)

 Lake Maggiore in the Evening (1858)

 Little Russian Ox Cart in Winter (1866)

 Loading Provisions off the Crimean Coast (1876)

Marine

Friday, August 3, 2012

Abram Arkhipov

Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930) was a Russian realist painter.

Down the Oka River (1890)

 Ice Has Gone (1895)

 Laundresses (ca. 1898)

 Radonitsa (Before Mass) (1892)

Reverse Route (1896)

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)