Lisa Mokhova (by Vladimir Begma) I have been thinking recently that I barely wrote anything about Quiet Flows the Don in the last 2 years. Perhaps, I was unconsciously waiting for the exhibition of pa...
Critics consider Ilya Glazunov's illustrations to An Unknown Lady by Alexander Blok to be the overall finest illustrations of Blok's work....
Alexei Tyranov, The View of the Big Church of the Winter Palace (1829) Eduard Hau, The Grand Church (1860s) In this 1829 painting the Russian artist Alexei Tyranov depicted the interior of the ...
There are two things that one notices, while browsing or watching Henry Fuseli’s paintings. One, he was indeed an ardent student of Michelangelo: many of his figures show the vigour and dramatis...
In Italy, my dear Frago, you are about to see the works of Raphael and Michelangelo; but let me tell you in confidence and as a friend that if you take those fellows seriously, you will be lost, done ...
There is one point in which Italy in an artist’s eye must always have the preference – I mean the school it provides for study; and in this I do not refer merely to the pictures, statues a...
Alexander Ivanov, The Bay of Naples near Castellmare (1846) Alexander Ivanov, On the Shore of the Bay of Naples (1850s) The Bay of Naples has traditionally been a favourite with painters. Peter...
York – Velazquez – Venus at Her Mirror, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. One of world’s best-known painting, Diego Velazquez’s Venus at her mirror (1644-48), hangs a...
Alexander Ivanov, the contemporary of Nikolai Gogol and Karl Brullov, spent a large part of his life in Italy where he also did many sketches for his masterpiece, The Appearance of Christ to the Peopl...
Alexey Tyranov was born in 1801. Prior to going to the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg he worked alongside his brother as an icon painter. At the Academy he studied under Alexey Venetsianov, and from...