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Friday, 14 January 2011
Art Sunday; Mikhail Nesterov , Russian Painter.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov
Born; 31 May 1862
Ufa, Russian Empire
Died; 18 October 1942
Moscow, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Training; Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Imperial Academy of Arts
Movement; Russian Symbolism
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was a leading representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He studied under Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890–91), depicting the conversion of medieval Russian saint Sergii Radonezhsky, is often considered to mark the inauguration of the Russian Symbolist movement.
From 1890 to 1910, Nesterov lived in Kiev and St Petersburg, working on frescoes in St. Vladimir's Cathedral and the Church on Spilt Blood, respectively. After 1910, he spent the remainder of his life in Moscow, working in the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent.
As a devout Orthodox Christian, he did not accept the Bolshevik Revolution but remained in Russia until his death, painting the portraits of prominant Russianns including; Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Pavlov, Ksenia Derzhinskaia Otto Schmidt, and Vera Mukhina, among many others. More of his work here.
Some of the paintings in the video at the bottom of the page are by other russian painters of the same period.
This is an excellent site showing some of his many works.
http://www.abcgallery.com/N/nesterov/nesterov.html
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