Ilya Repin Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1891 This painting, which Repin began in 1880 and did not complete until 1891, is also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto. The painting, which now hangs in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, measures almost … Continue reading
Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 In German: Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer It currently resides in the Kunsthalle Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. ***** Does anyone else find the mysterious wilderness of fog-bound crags tantalizing? Continue reading
Herbert James Draper The Lament for Icarus, 1898 Currently housed in London’s Tate Britain… Continue reading
Vasily Vereshchagin The Apotheosis of War, 1871 “This is devoted to all great conquerors of the present, past and future” – Vasily Vereshchagin Continue reading
John Callcott Horsley St. Valentine’s Day Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 