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A Quiet Monastery
''A Quiet Monastery'' is a landscape by Russian artist Isaac Levitan, Isaak Levitan (1860–1900), painted in 1890. It belongs to the Tretyakov Gallery, State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (inventory number Zh-584). Its size is 87.5×108 cm.Государственная Третьяковская галерея — каталог собрания / Я. В. Брук, Л. И. Иовлева. — М.: Красная площадь, 2001. — V. 4: Живопись второй половины XIX века, book 1, А—М. — 528 p. — P. 357. — . This painting, in which Levitan weaves together his impressions of a number of Monastery, monasteries he visited, was completed in 1890 after his trip to Volga, Upper Volga. In 1891, the painting was exhibited at the 19th exhibition of the Peredvizhniki, Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions ("Peredvizhniki"), which was held in Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg and then in Moscow. "A Quiet Monastery" was a great success with the visit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Levitan
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (; – ) was a Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a ''shtetl'' of Kibarty, Augustów Governorate in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania) into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kowno and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a French building company. At the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow. In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years. After a year in the copying class Isaac transferred into a naturalistic class, and soon thereafter into a landscape class. Levitan's teachers were the famous Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Perov and Vasily Polenov. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
