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Mikhail Nesterov
      Russian artist.1869-1938
Mikhail Nesterov Taking the Veil USA oil painting artist


Taking the Veil
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Painting ID::  77749
Visit European Gallery 		  between 1897(1897) and 1898(1898) Oil on canvas cjr

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Nesterov, Mikhail
      Russian, 1862-1942 Russian painter. From 1877 to 1881 and again from 1884 to 1886 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under the Realist painters Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov. Between 1881 and 1884 he worked under Pavel Chistyakov (1832-1919) at the Academy of Arts, St Petersburg. At the estate of Savva Mamontov at Abramtsevo he met the most influential painters of the period, then at the epicentre of the development of Russian Art Nouveau. Nesterov sought to combine this style with a deep Orthodox belief; however, in his desire to revive religious art he was influenced more by French Symbolism, particularly by Bastien-Lepage, than by old Russian icon painting. All of Nesterov's canvases are marked by a lyrical synthesis between the figures and their landscape surroundings, as in Hermit (1888-9; Moscow, Tret'yakov Gal.), which shows the stooped figure of an old man against a northern landscape of stunted trees and still water. The large oil painting Vision of Young Bartholomew (1889-90; Moscow, Tret'yakov Gal.) depicts the legend of the childhood of the Russian saint Sergey of Radonezh. A monk appears to the young Bartholomew (the future St Sergius) and prophesies a glorious future for him.
Nesterov, Mikhail Taking the Veil USA oil painting artist


Taking the Veil
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Painting ID::  80974
Visit European Gallery 		  between 1897(1897) and 1898(1898) Medium Oil on canvas cyf

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