The Golden Age of Russian Painting: Repin, Aivazovsky, Vrubel & More

This documentary explores the golden age of nineteenth-century Russian painting through six masters who placed Russia at the center of universal art: Karl Bryullov and the day Nicholas the First kissed the hand of the painter of Pompeii, Ivan Aivazovsky and the six thousand paintings of the Armenian who brought water to Feodosia, Ilya Repin and the Zaporozhian Cossacks who paid for his estate, Vasily Surikov and the Boyarynya Morozova raising the two-fingered cross of the Old Believers, Henryk Siemiradzki and the Phryne lit with electric light to mimic the Mediterranean sun, Mikhail Vrubel and the demon he repainted every dawn until he lost his sight. Plus the Revolt of the Fourteen in 1863, the same year as the Salon des Refusés in Paris, the Peredvizhniki traveling by train with their canvases to Kiev and Nizhny Novgorod, the duel between Pavel Tretyakov and Tsar Alexander the Third, and the origin of the two rival museums that still preserve nineteenth-century Russian art today. Chapters: 00:00 Vandalism at the Tretyakov Gallery 01:18 Pompeii arrives in Saint Petersburg 03:36 Aivazovsky and the Ninth Wave 06:04 The Revolt of the Fourteen and the Peredvizhniki 07:38 Repin: from the Volga to the Cossacks 11:13 Surikov and the Russian history that hurts 13:25 Siemiradzki and the filtered sun 15:57 Vrubel and the seated demon 19:09 Two museums, two souls Website: myriamalcaraz.com #RussianPainting #IlyaRepin #IvanAivazovsky #KarlBryullov #VasilySurikov #MikhailVrubel #Siemiradzki #TheNinthWave #ArtHistory #IvanTheTerrible #TretyakovGallery #RussianMuseum #SaintPetersburg #19thCenturyArt #Peredvizhniki