Winter 2011: Russian icon
Last Updated on Thursday, 17 November 2011 03:05 Written by External Post Thursday, 17 November 2011 03:05
He That is Without Sin, 1908 by Vasilii Polenov
Vasilii Polenov is considered to be one of the true masters of 19th-century Russian art. Claire Wrathall considers his work
The Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev was something of a connoisseur of visual art but tended to be damning of his compatriots’ work. In his novella Smoke, he has a character dismiss the very idea of Russian painting: “Russian art, indeed! Russian…
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