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Borisov-Musatov had a profound impact on the development of Russian Symbolism in painting. His aesthetic blended modernism and impressionism, and artists from the "Blue Rose" group drew significant inspiration from his work.

Find out more about this remarkable artist and what inspired him at the free webinar by VTB and Level One: "Borisov-Musatov: Dreams of the Beautiful Era".

Art historian Anastasia Mамaева will explore how the artist’s style evolved and how he managed to inspire an entire movement of Russian symbolists.

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"Foundling Girls in a Chapel," 1877

Artist / Sophie Gengembre Anderson
(1823–1903)

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Oil on canvas
68×54.8 cm

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"Motherhood"

Artist / Étienne Adolphe Piot
(1825–1910)

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Oil on canvas
119.4×80 cm

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"Farmhouse with Blossoming Apple Trees", 1915

Artist / Johan Kruse
(1858–1932)

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Oil on canvas

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"Contemplation", 1872

Artist / Alfred Stevens
(1823–1906)

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"Sleeping Man", 1855

Artist / Adolf von Menzel
(1815–1905)

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Canvas, oil
37×52 cm

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"The Storm," 1874

Artist / William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(1825–1905)

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"September. Academic Dacha". 2021

Artist / Stanislav Aleksandrovich Brusilov
(born in 1976)

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Canvas, oil

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28 November

Birthday of William Blake (1757–1827) – English painter, engraver, poet, and mystical symbolist.

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Promenade under Moonlight

Artist / Ivan Fedorovich Shultze
(1874–1939)

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"Miss", 1890s

Artist / Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky
(1839–1915)

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"Crimea. Landscape with a River", 1868

Artist / Vladimir Donatovich Orlovsky
(1842–1914)

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Canvas, oil paint

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"Freelézoua", 1872

Artist / William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(1825–1905)

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Oil on canvas
66×55.2 cm

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"Point Bonita Lighthouse"

Artist / Frederick Ferdinand Schaefer
(1839–1927)

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"Forest Fire", 1897

Artist / Alexey Kuzmich Denisov-Uralsky
(1864–1926)

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Canvas, oil
190×128.5 cm

Denisov-Uralsky’s entire creative life revolved around the Urals—its landscapes, its riches, its archaeological heritage. He returned to this subject again and again, developing the theme of the forest fire over fifteen years through dozens of watercolors, sketches, and finished works.

The painting was first presented to audiences in Perm in 1900, as part of Denisov-Uralsky’s landmark exhibition *The Urals in Painting*—the city’s very first art exhibition. It was a sensation. Local critics singled out *Forest Fire* as the highlight. The artist displayed his masterpiece in a separate darkened room, lit only by an electric lamp. The illusion of heat radiating from the canvas was heightened by contrast: while the rest of the exhibition occupied cold, spacious halls, visitors entered a tightly sealed, sweltering chamber where the painted inferno seemed to truly rage.

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Morning Prayers

Artist / Auguste Weeynants
(1834–1890)

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"Thunderstorm in the Alps", 1868

Artist / Frederic Edwin Church
(1826–1900)

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"Mother's Visit to the Hospital," 1892

Artist / Enrique Paternina García Cid
(1866–1917)

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Oil on canvas
150×208 cm

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"Forest", 1893

Artist / Andrey Nikolaevich Shilder
(1861–1919)

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Oil on canvas
56.3×40.7 cm

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"17th-century Moscow at dawn near the Resurrection Gates," 1900

Artist / Apollinariy Mikhailovich Vasnetsov
(1856–1933)

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Oil on canvas
138.7×125.3 cm

In a vague, shifting landscape, reality and fantasy blend strangely, like a dream. Medieval Moscow emerges as romantic, almost exotic imagery. Ancient towers and somber fortress walls of the Kremlin, whimsical wooden structures, and the verticals of churches and bell towers are rendered with precise detail, yet feel abstracted and universal. Moscow’s architecture here is both tangible and ethereal—simultaneously intimate, romantic, and otherworldly.

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