Black Square (1915)
Kazimir Malevich · 1915
Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow
Malevich's Black Square, the icon of Vladimir, and Ivan the Terrible holding the son he has just killed. Pavel Tretyakov began buying his countrymen’s work in 1856, and the collection still carries his name.
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Black Square (1915)
Kazimir Malevich · 1915
Black Square is a 1915 oil on linen canvas painting by the Russian avant-garde artist and theorist Kazimir Malevich. There are four painted versions, the first of which was completed in 1915 and described by the artist as his breakthrough work and the inception of his Suprematist art movement (1915–1919).
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581
Ilya Repin · 1883
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, shortly after Ivan the Terrible had dealt a fatal blow to his son's head in a fit of anger. The painting portrays the anguish and remorse on the face of the elder Ivan and the shock and heartbreak of the dying Tsarevich, who sheds a tear at the unexpected betrayal and shock of having been killed at his father's hands.
Theotokos of Vladimir
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The Virgin of Vladimir, also known as Vladimir Mother of God, Our Lady of Vladimir, is a 12th-century Byzantine icon depicting the Virgin and Child and an early example of the Eleusa iconographic type. It is one of the most culturally significant and celebrated pieces of art in Russian history.
Morning in a Pine Forest
Ivan Shishkin · 1889
Morning in a Pine Forest, formerly The Bear Family in the Forest, is a painting by Russian artists Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. According to one poll, the painting is the second most popular in Russia behind Bogatyrs (1898) by Viktor Vasnetsov.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Ivan Kramskoi · 1883
Portrait of an Unknown Woman, also known as The Unknown Woman, An Unknown Lady or Stranger is an oil painting by the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi, painted in 1883. The model, whose identity is unknown, is a woman of "quiet strength and forthright gaze".
Eleusa
The Eleusa (or Eleousa; Greek: Ἐλεούσα, tenderness or showing mercy) is a type of depiction of the Virgin Mary in icons in which the Christ Child is nestled against her cheek. In the Western Church the type is often known as the Virgin of Tenderness.
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Artworks
Boyarina Morozova
Vasily Surikov · 1887
Composition VII
Wassily Kandinsky · 1913
The Demon Seated
Mikhail Vrubel · 1890
Heroes
Viktor Vasnetsov · 1890
The Vladimirka
Isaac Levitan · 1892
Blachernitissa
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