Dose of Art #170: Ilya Repin – The Unexpected Visitor (c. 1884-1888)
As we saw a couple of days ago with Isaac Levitan’s Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park the end of the 19thth […]
Russian Art
Dose of Art #168: Isaac Levitan – Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park (1879)
Levitan lived in Moscow, but when after a failed assassination attempt on Alexander II in May 1879 the Russian Empire […]
Dose of Art #142: Isaac Levitan – Over Eternal Peace (1894
Levitan was born in what is now Lithuania. Like so many Russian painters he was inspired by the vast Russian […]
Dose of Art #111: Ivan Shishkin – A Rhy Field (1878)
We have seen Shishkin’s work before, and this is another great example of his Russian landscapes.
Dose of Art #80: Ivan Shishkin – Morning in a Pine Forest (1889)
Shiskin (1832-1898) was a landscape painter and an art professor. His most famous painting Morning in a Pine Forest features […]
Dose of Art #52: Ilya Repin – Barge Haulers on the Volga (1870–73)
Ilya Repin was the leader of a group of Rusian painters called Peredvizhniki (the Wanderers). They aimed to portray the […]
Daily Dose of Art #27: Konstantin Makovsky – A Boyar Wedding Feast (1883)
The painting depicts a Russian aristocratic wedding in the 17 century at the moment when the guests toast the bridal […]
Daily Dose of Art #18: Ilya Repin – Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1891)
The painting depicts Cossacks writing a reply to the demand of Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV to surrender (around 1670): As […]