... close readings of three of his major works, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan (1880–91), it argues that Repin deployed Eastern motifs in order to unsettle entrenched ...
Tópico(s): Eurasian Exchange Networks
2023 - Oxford University Press | Art History
... there is, instead of Sinbad, the intrepid sailor Sadko, one of whose numerous adventures is that of his marriage, celebrated at the bottom of the ocean. The painting of this remarkable occasion hangs in the Russian Museum in Leningrad, a work in oils by the famed Russian artist Ilya Repin (1844-1930). Also a frequent character in the ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
1986 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Children's Literature Association quarterly