Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Sebastopol

Painting by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900). One of the foremost marine and seascapes painters in history, Aivozovsky worked in many countries, and liked to incorporate mountainous views into the scenes.  As capable as any of capturing the drama of a turbulent sea, he more often showed a tranquil sea that brings on a mood of reflection.  Dramatic lighting, dominated by sun or moon, with almost Turner-like intensity, was a specialty of his coastal paintings, but not always present, as in the example below.

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Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Painting by Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov (1824-1896)  This highly prolific artist painted hundreds of outdoor scenes, covering a wide variety of countries, styles, and subject matter.  

His earliest works were maritime and detailed many of Russia's naval battles of the time.  Of his many, many works capturing city and nature, he. more than almost any other artist who captured the world around us, titled his works by the location shown in the image.  Most other landscape artists are not as consistent, or less specific, in naming the location, but for Bogolyubov (or Bogoliubov) it is much more the rule than the exception. This is true even when to all appearances the work might be any river bank, just as likely in Normandy as on the Neva.  But the artist was usually very specific about the location, even painting the title onto the work.

Aleksey Bogolyubov Paintings Geococded

Easter Procession in Yaroslavl

Alexei Gornostayev Paintings in Geocoded Art

Palace in Pavlovsk

Painting by Alexei Gornostayev (1808-1862).  His elegant works show all of the refinement that the royals wanted their structures to evoke,  There are some foreground figures in each work, but not to distract from the overall effect the correctness of royal prerogative in how it ordered life around it.  The sites which he painted were those that were far from the centers of power, though: a yet more controlled, if artificial, world.

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Ludwig FK Bohnstedt Paintings Geocded

Nevsky Prospekt by Anichkov Bridge

Painting by Ludwig Franz Karl Bohnstedt (1822-1885) The architect's training comes through in the precise, draftmen-like lines on the buildings, but with a warm touch for the street life that goes on in the foreground.  He painted in St. Petersburg and in Italy, and in each has a different feel for the pace of life.  His figures are very natural in their poses, and are believably in motion.

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Maxim Vorobiev Paintings geocoded

View of the Kremlin (by the Stone Bridge)

Painting by Maxim Vorobiev (1787-1855) 

Very few of the Russian landscapes painters did work in a wider variety of settings and locales; It may be this time spent capturing many other scenes, atmospheres, and aesthetics adds extra depth to his depictions of the great landmarks of Moscow and Petersburg.  These he shows with more affection than other painters whose goal was to convey the appropriate awe in the face of majesty. Vorobiev shows them as places you really might want to visit.

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Alexei Savrasov Paintings in GeocodedArt

Moscow Kremlin, Cathedral Square

Painting by Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) Though he painted at some of the seats of power in the city center, this work is typical of many he did also in the countryside of having a tragic quality: moody lighting, mystery lurking in the corners: clearly more to the story than meets the eye.

Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897) Paintings

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev Paintings in GeoCoded Art

A View of the Moscow Kremlin and the Kamenny Bridge

Painting by Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753-1824). His works on the principal sights in Moscow reflect an official sanction to document symbols of power and their proper place in the world.  He did also work in Crimea, where his images have a little more feel for what it was like to stand where he was on a particular day, when the breeze had a particular feel.

Fedor Alekseev Paintings geocoded