Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Vasiliy Vereshchagin, ctd

 After the Attack. Dressing Station near Plevna (1881)

 A Resting Place of Prisoners (1878-79)

In the Hospital, 1901

 In the Hospital, Letter Left Unfinished

 Kalmytskaya Chapel (1869-70)

 Kirghiz Nomad Tents on the River Chu (1869-70)

 Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal at Agra (1874-76)

 Moscow, 1812

 Mounted Warrior in Jaipur (ca. 1881)

Mullah Rahmin and Mullah Kerim Quarrelling on the Way to the Bazaar (1873)

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Ivan Shishkin

Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) was a Russian landscape artist who specialized in paintings of forests.

 A Promenade in the Woods (1860s)

 Apiary in the Woods (1876)

 Apiary (1884)

 At the Edge of the Forest

 Autumn Forest (1876)

 Autumn, Park in Pavlovsk (1888)

 Backwoods (1872)

 Birchwood

 Brook in Birch Forest (1883)

Chashcha (1879)

Monday, August 13, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

It's Monday, so it must be Aivazovsky Day. Here's a nice biography of him.

Moscow in Winter from the Sparrow Hills (1872)

 N. N. Rajevsky Landing at Subashi (1839)

 Napoleon on St. Helena (1897)

 Naval Battle at Chios (1848)

 Ocean

 Ox Cart Crossing a Flooded Plain, detail (1897)

 Oxen on the Isthmus (1860)

 Passage of the Jews Through the Red Sea (1891)

 Pompeii (1889)

Rainbow (1873)

Friday, August 10, 2012

A Bunch of Alexanders

 Alexander Ivanov: The Appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene (1834-36)

 Alexander Ivanov: The Appearance of Christ to the People (1837-57)
[it took Ivanov 20 years to complete this work!]

 Alexander Ivanovich Morozov: Leaving Church in Pskov (1864)

 Alexander Ivanovich Morozov: Rural Free School (1865)

 Alexander Karlovich Beggrov: St. Petersburg, View of the Neva (1912)

 Alexander Popov: Village House

 Alexander Bogomolov-Safonovich: In the Vicinity of Kovno

Alexander Kiselev: Autumn in the Woods (1903)

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)