Art Reproductions Booklet

2012–2013 BOOKLET 

Russian Art and Architecture 

ART REPRODUCTIONS 

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Russian Art and Architecture 


TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Christian Art and Architecture in Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

St. Sophia Cathedral, Kiev, interior of dome with Christ Pantocrator and Angels, 1037–61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 

Christ in Glory, Icon, 1470–99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 

Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed, Moscow, Postnik and Barma, 1555–60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 

St. Isaac’s Cathedral, St . Petersburg, c . 1880, Auguste de Montferrand, 1818–58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 

Art and Architecture of the Russian Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

Façade of the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage, 

Saint Petersburg, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and Yury Velten, 1764–75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 

Monument to Peter the Great, St . Petersburg, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, completed 1782 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 

Portrait of the Countess Samoilova, Karl Briullov, 1832–34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 

Imperial Peter the Great Easter Egg, Fabergé Firm, 1903 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 

Intersections: Literature, Dance, and the Visual Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 

Illustration for “L’oiseau de Feu” (Tsarevich Ivan on the Horse with the Golden Mane of Tsar Afron), 

Boris Zvorykin, c . 1925 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 

The Tsar’s Palace, Stage Set for Le coq d’or (The Golden Cockerel) opera by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, 1914 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 

Tutu worn in Le Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan) by Anna Pavlova, with coronet, feathers, 

Léon Bakst (Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg), designer, early twentieth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 

Modern Art and Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888), Ilya Repin, 1884 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 

I and the Village, Marc Chagall, 1911 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 

Proun, El Lissitzky, 1924–25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

The Motherland Calls, Irakli Toidze, 1941 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, Moscow, Dmitry Chechylin and Andrei Rostkovsky, 1947–52 . . . . . . . . . . .18 

Blindman’s Buff, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, 1982–83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 

Untitled: Washington and Lenin, Leonid Lamm, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 

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Christian Art and Architecture in Russia 

St . Sophia Cathedral, Kiev, 

interior of dome with Christ Pantocrator and Angels 

Kiev, Ukraine, 1037–61 

Byzantine mosaic 

Photo Credit: Andrea Jemolo/Scala / Art Resource, NY. 

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Christ in Glory 

Russian Painter (Novgorod?), 1470–99 

Icon, tempera on wood, 42 1 ⁄8 x 30 7 ⁄8 in . (107 x 78 .4 cm) 

The Gift of George R. Hann, 1944 (1944.101). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. 

Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY. 



Cathedral of St . Vasily the Blessed 

Moscow, Postnik and Barma, 1555–60 

Photo copyright © Claudio Divizia / Artifice Images. 



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St . Isaac’s Cathedral 

St. Petersburg, Russia, c. 1880, Auguste de Montferrand, 1818–58 

Photo Credit: Adoc-photos / Art Resource, NY. 



Art and Architecture of the Russian Empire 

Façade of the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage 

St. Petersburg, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and Yury Velten, 

1764–75 

Image courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Photograph © The State Hermitage Museum. 



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Monument to Peter the Great 

St. Petersburg, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, completed 1782 

Photo Credit: Bridgeman-Giraudon / Art Resource, NY. 



Portrait of the Countess Samoilova 

Karl Briullov, 1832–34 

Oil on canvas . H . 105 9 ⁄16 in ., W . 78 3 ⁄4 in . 

Image copyright © Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens. Photo by Ed Owen. 



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Imperial Peter the Great Easter Egg 

Fabergé Firm, 1903 

Gold, platinum, diamonds, rubies, enamel, bronze, sapphire, watercolor on ivory, rock crystal . 

4 .25 x 3 .125 (diameter) in . (10 .80 x 7 .94 [diameter] cm) 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt. Photo: Katherine Wetzel. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. 



Intersections: 

Literature, Dance, and the Visual Arts 

Illustration for “L’oiseau de Feu” 

(Tsarevich Ivan on the Horse with the Golden Mane of Tsar Afron) 

Boris Zvorykin, c. 1925 

Gouache, metallic inks, and black ink, heightened with white, over graphite . 

Image: 10 7 ⁄8 x 8 3 ⁄16 in . (27 .6 x 20 .8 cm) Sheet: 13 3 ⁄4 x 10 9 ⁄16 in . (34 .9 x 26 .8 cm) 

Gift of Thomas H. Guinzburg, The Viking Press, 1979 (1979.537.5). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY. 



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The Tsar’s Palace, 

Stage Set for Le coq d’or (The Golden Cockerel) 

opera by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov 

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, 1914 

Collage, gouache on paper . 65 x 97 cm 

© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. 

Photo Credit: Erich Lessing / Art Resource New York. A. Bakhrushin, Museum of the History of Theatre, Moscow, Russia. 



Tutu worn in Le Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan) 

by Anna Pavlova, with coronet, feathers 

Léon Bakst (Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg), 

designer, early twentieth century 

Net, goose feathers, and stone 

Lent by the Bancroft Library (L78.87.4a). Image courtesy of the De Young Museum / Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums. 

© 2011 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 



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Modern Art and Architecture 

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888) 

Ilya Repin, 1884 

Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 1 ⁄4 in . (88 .9 x 69 .2 cm) 

Gift of Humanities Fund Inc., 1972 (1972.145.2). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. 

Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY. 



I and the Village 

Marc Chagall, 1911 

Oil on canvas, 6 ft . 3 5 ⁄8 in . x 59 5 ⁄8 in . (192 .1 x 151 .4 cm) 

The Museum of Modern Art. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund (146.1945). © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. 

Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. 



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Proun 

El Lissitzky, 1924–25 

Collage of various cut-and-tipped wove papers (prepared with gouache, graphite, and varnish), 

and brush and pen and black ink, with red watercolor, on cream laminate cardboard . 498 x 650 mm 

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection (1998.734). 

The Art Institute of Chicago. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago. 



The Motherland Calls 

Irakli Toidze, 1941 

Gouache and colored pencil on gelatin silver print, 23 x 16 in . (58 .4 x 40 .6 cm) 

© The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. 



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Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building 

Moscow, Dmitry Chechylin and Andrei Rostkovsky, 1947–52 

Photo © Olga Anourina. Image provided courtesy of iStockphoto LP. 



Blindman’s Buff 

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, 1982–83 

Oil on canvas . H . 72, W . 47 in . (182 .9 x 119 .4 cm) 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anonymous Gift, 1991 (1991.466). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY. 



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Untitled: Washington and Lenin 

Leonid Lamm, 1991 

Acrylic on canvas . H . 70, W . 70 in . (177 .8 x 177 .8 cm) 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anonymous Gift, 1993 (1993.495.2). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY. 




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