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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] |
Molodaya Gvardiya (publisher)
Molodaya Gvardiya (, lit. ''Young Guard'') is an open joint-stock Russian publishing house, one of the oldest publishers in Russia, having been founded in 1922 during the Soviet era. From 1938 until 1992, it was responsible for publishing the magazine '' Vokrug sveta (, literally: "Around the World")''. History 1922 — The Molodaya Gvardiya publishing and printing association was founded in Moscow on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol on October 10. In the first year of the publishing house's operation, 71 books were published with a circulation of 584,000 copies. 1930s — The publishing house began to produce not only books, but also newspaper and magazine products. In 1968, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin signed for the printing of his book ''Psychology and Space'', written in collaboration with Vladimir Lebedev, which has been reprinted and translated into numerous languages. He also wrote the preface of the biography of Konstantin Tsiol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Study (art)
In art, a study is a drawing, Sketch (drawing), sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece, as visual notetaking, notes, or as practice. Studies are often used to understand the problems involved in rendering subjects and to plan the elements to be used in finished works, such as light, color, form, perspective (graphical), perspective and composition. Studies can have more impact than more-elaborately planned work, due to the fresh insights the artist gains while exploring the subject. The excitement of discovery can give a study vitality. When layers of the work show changes the artist made as more was understood, the viewer shares more of the artist's sense of discovery. Written notes alongside visual images add to the import of the piece as they allow the viewer to share the artist's process of getting to know the subject. Studies inspired some of the first 20th century conceptual art, where the creative process itself becomes the subject of the piece. Since t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch (drawing)
A sketch (ultimately from Greek language, Greek σχέδιος – ''schedios'', "done extempore") is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work.Diana Davies (editor), ''Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Artists'', Harrap Books Limited, (1990) A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees, it might record or develop an idea for later use or it might be used as a quick way of graphically demonstrating an image, idea or principle. Sketching is the most inexpensive art medium. Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. It may also apply to drawings executed in pen and ink, digital input such as a digital pen, ballpoint pen, marker pen, Watercolor painting, water colour and oil paint. The lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kineshma
Kineshma (), the second-largest town in Ivanovo Oblast in Russia, sprawls for along the Volga River, 335 kilometers north-east of Moscow. Population: Etymology From a substrate Finno-Ugric language (cf. ('kine', < Proto-Finno-Permic ''*känз''), "hemp"). History Kineshma was first noticed as a '' posad'' in 1429. In 1504, Ivan III gave it to Prince Feodor Belsky, who escaped to from and married Ivan's niece. Later on ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuryevets, Ivanovo Oblast
Yuryevets is a town (since 1225СССР. Административно-территориальное деление союзных республик на 1 января 1980 года / Сост. В. А. Дударев, Н. А. Евсеева. — Москва: Известия, 1980. — 702 с. — С. 122.), the administrative center of Yuryevetsky District of Ivanovo Oblast of the Russia, Russian Federation. It is one of the oldest towns in Ivanovo Oblast, with a history spanning at least ."''s:МСЭ2/Юрьевец, Yurye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plyos, Ivanovo Oblast
Plyos () is a town in Privolzhsky District of Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, northeast of Ivanovo, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: Paleontology Fossils of Early Triassic temnospondyls are known from Plyos. '' Wetlugasaurus angustifrons'' and '' Angusaurus weidenbaumi'' were found in the Lower Olenekian deposits. History It was founded in 12th century. Some years later the was founded. It was destroyed in 1238 by Mongols. A border post of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was founded in 1410 by Vasily I. It was granted town status in 1925. Administrative and municipal status Within the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Kuvshinnikova
Sofia Petrovna Kuvshinnikova, née Safonova (Russian: Софья Петровна Кувшинникова; 1847 – 1907 near Moscow) was a Russian landscape painter. For many years, she was the mistress of Isaac Levitan and served as the inspiration for the lead character in a short story by Anton Chekhov: ''Попрыгунья'' (The Grasshopper, 1892). In 1955, it was adapted for the screen as The Grasshopper (1955 film), the first movie directed by Samson Samsonov, with Lyudmila Tselikovskaya in the starring role. Biography She was born to the family of a minor civil servant. After an education which stressed the fine arts, she married Dr Dmitri Kuvshinnikov, a doctor for the police department who was much older.Brief Biography @ Знаменитые женщины. In 1871, he appeared as one of the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
