Friday, August 17, 2012

Lev Kamenev

Lev Lvovich Kamenev (1833 or 34 - 1886) was a Russian landscape painter. (There was also a Lev Kamenev who was a Bolshevik revolutionary who became a prominent Soviet politician. That's a different person!)

 By the Dam (1864)

 Fog. Red Pond in Moscow in Autumn (1871)

 Landscape (1868)

 Landscape with a Pond (1884)

 Landscape (1861)

 Moonlit Night on the River (1870s)

 View of the Village of Porechye (1869)
 
 View on the River Kazanka (1875)

Winter Road (1866)

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Vladimir Makovsky

Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920) was a Russian painter. He was the brother of Konstantin Makovsky, another painter.

 A Literary Reading (1866)

 Anticipation (1875)

 The Convict (1879)

 Fishing (1884)

 Friends

 Girl with Geese (1875)

 Hiring Servants (1891-92)

Hunters at Rest (1887)

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)