Title: | John the Baptist - study for painting "Christ Among the People" |
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Notes: | "John the Baptist was known in Russia as "the forerunner" (predtecha), a designation that seems particularly appropriate for Ivanov. His vision of universal Russian rule aided by "public artists" and adorned with "temples of humanity" seems at times like an anticipation of Soviet ideology...His final realism and preoccupation with suffering helped usher in the bleak, semi-photographic style that was to dominate [Russian] painting until the 1890's...Ivanov had tried first to create and then to become Christ, but he had left behind only sketches of human suffering and a noble failure dominated by the ascetic prophet who can do no more than announce that someone mightier is coming. His life and work represent a final heroic effort to attain a kind of moralistic self-transformation into the likeness of Christ." (Billington)
From The Yorck Project. |
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Date: | 1837-1857 |
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Artist: | Ivanov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1806-1858 |
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Building: | Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ Tretʹi︠a︡kovskai︠a︡ galerei︠a︡
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City/Town: | Moscow
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Country: | Russia
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Scripture: | Matthew 11:2-11
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Person as Subject: | John, the Baptist (Biblical figure)
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Lectionary links: | CAdvt02
AAdvt03
BAdvt02
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Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism -- Russia
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ICONCLASS Number: | 11H(JOHN THE BAPTIST)
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Attribution: | Ivanov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1806-1858. John the Baptist - study for painting "Christ Among the People", from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46166 [retrieved February 15, 2025]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Andrejewitsch_Iwanow_003.jpg. |
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Record Number: | 46166
Last Updated: 2021-09-09 06:10:00
Record Created: 2006-06-26 00:00:00 |
Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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Bibliographic Source: | Icon and the axe: an interpretive history of Russian culture |
Author: | Billington, James |
Publisher: | Vintage |
Date: | 1970 |