Russian Painting
Icons, landscapes, and the soul of a nationBy Peter Leek
Length5h 59m
About this audiobook
From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else. Russian culture developed in contact with the wider European influence, but retained strong native intonations. It is a culture between East and West, and both influences in together. The book begins with Icons, and it is precisely Icon-painting which gave Russian artist their peculiar preoccupation with ethical questions and a certain kind of palette. It goes on the expound the duality of their art, and point out the originality of their contribution to world art. The illustrations cover all genres and styles of painting in astonishing variety. Such figures as Borovokovsky, Rokotov, Levitsky, Brullov, Fedatov, Repin, Shishkin and Levitan and many more are in these pages.
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Length5 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1RUSSIAN PAINTING
2Author: Peter Leek
3Icon painting
4Parsunas
5scarcely less than Nikon’s.
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6The Academy
7Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
8Cross-currents in art
9The Itinerants
10Architecture in Moscow from 1871 to 1883; Grigory Miasoyedov, portrait, historical and
11to another.
12The emergence of Russian Avant-garde
13twentieth century.
14of eighteenth-century portrait painting at the Tauride Palace in Saint Petersburg in
15Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.
16of his artistic career.
17Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
18Academy, Nikolaï Gay’s powerful painting The Last Supper was exhibited in Saint
19banal concerns.” Through techniques and pictorial means such as contrast between light
20King Salomon (1854) and Achilles Mourning Patrocles (1855).
21Religious Painting
22Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
23friends: Tolstoy, Gay…
24Religious Painting
25Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
26stature in Russia and outside of its national frontiers.
27the fifteenth itinerant exhibition.
28Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
29until his death from tuberculosis in 1836.
30permanent collection.
31Zakomelskaya and her Daughter in a Boat.
32From the 1860s to the 1890s
33on character observation for their lively satire or humour.
34the eve of destruction”.
35From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
36with an Injured Arm.
37towards the end of his life.
38Museum of Russian Art, Kiev.
39Saryan, Surikov, Vrubel, Petrov-Vodkin, Robert Falk and Mikhaïl Nesterov who all
40Historical Painting
41From the Eigteenth Century to the 1860s
42Historical Painting
43Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
44From the 1860s to the 1890s
45opponents.
46Historical Painting
47Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
48From the 1890s to the Revolutionary Period
49Historical Painting
5043.5 x 62 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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