Russian Genre Painting in the Nineteenth Century

From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Rosalind P. Gray. Russian Genre Painting in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx, 216 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cloth.

The visual arts of nineteenth-century Russia have attracted, and it must be admitted have deserved, far less international recognition than its literature or music, and this is particularly true of the painting that preceded the dramatic emergence of the Peredvizhniki in the 1860s and 1870s. Since this study, despite its title, covers only the first three quarters of the century, and excludes the ...

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