Monday, August 27, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

 Shipwreck

 Storm in the North Sea

 Storm

 Stormy Sea

 Sunset at Sea

 Sunset over the Golden Horn (1866)

 Sunset, Feodosiya (1865)

 Sunset

 Surf off the Crimean Coast (1880)

Surf

Friday, August 24, 2012

Alexei Savrasov, ctd

Spring Evening (1880s)

 Summer on the Volga (1873)

 Sundown over a Marsh (1871)

The Pechersk Monastery near Nizhni Novgorod (1871)

 The Volga Overflowing its Banks by Yaroslav

 Winter Landscape. Rime (ca. 1870)

 Winter Landscape (1873)

 Winter Landscape (1871)

 Winter (1873)

Sea of Mud (1894)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Vasily Polenov

Vasily Polenov (1844-1927) was a Russian painter of landscapes and Biblical scenes.

 At the Genisaret Lake (1888)

Caesarian Fun (1879)

 Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1886-87)

 Dreams (On the Hill) (ca. 1900)

 Early Snow (1891)

 Forest Pathway (1874)

Granny's Orchard (1878)

 In the Park, the Village of Veules in Normandy (1874)

 Le Droit du Seigneur (1874)
[here's more about this odious custom]

Moscow Courtyard (1878)

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Flavitsky and Savitsky

Paintings by a couple of guys named Konstantin.

 Konstantin Flavitsky: Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum (1862)

 Konstantin Flavitsky: Princess Tarakanova (1864)

 Konstantin Flavitsky: The Children of Jacob Sell his Brother Joseph (1855)

 Konstantin Savitsky: Family Quarrel (1890)

 Konstantin Savitsky: Meeting the Icon (1878)

Konstantin Savitsky: Off to the War (1888)

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Battle Scenes

19th century Russia saw a lot of armed conflict and numerous painters documented this in great detail. Here are a few of those paintings.

 Alexei Kivshenko: Battle of Shipka-Sheinovo, December 28, 1877 (1894)

 Alexei Kivshenko: Nizhegorodskiye Dragoons Pursuing the Turks on the way to Carswe during Aladzhinskogo Battle on October 3, 1877

 Alexey Bogolyubov: Battle near Gangut on the 27th July 1714 (1877)

 Franz Roubaud: Storming the Fortress of Akhulgo

 Nicholas Karazin: Entry of Russian Troops in Samarkand, June 8, 1868

 Paul Osipovich Kovalevsky: Crossing the Danube

 Sergey Miloradovich: The Defense of the Troitse–Sergiyeva Lavra by Russian soldiers and Orthodox

Viktor Mazurovsky: A Charge of the Russian Leib Guard on 14th June, 1807 (Friedland) (1912)

Monday, August 20, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

 Rescue at Sea (detail)

 Russian Black Sea Fleet on a Parade Review (1849)

 Russian Fleet at Sunset (1888)

 Scenes of Life in Cairo (1880s)

Seascape, Malaga (1854)

 Sebastopol (1852)

 Ship in a Stormy Sea (1887)

 Ship in a Stormy Sea off the Coast (1895)

 Ships in a Storm (1860)

Shipwreck on the Black Sea (1875)