The Threshing Floor By Aleksei Venetsianov

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The threshing floor by aleksei venetsianov.

One of the founders of the russian genre painting alexei venetsianov was born into a not particularly well off merchant family in moscow. Rosalind polly gray the real and the ideal in the work of aleksei venetsianov russian review vol. Pairs of donkeys or oxen or sometimes cattle or horses would then be walked round and round often dragging a heavy threshing board behind them to tear the ears of grain from the stalks and loosen the grain itself from the husks. There is evidence that he also dealt in pictures and this may have helped awaken the young venetsianov s interest in art.

With vladimir borovikovsky at st petersburg academy 1802 10. Exact matches only. Buy online at discount prices. Russia was late in getting its own national art.

Copied paintings at hermitage. After this threshing process the broken stalks and grain were collected. Available as prints canvases and cards. Handmade in the uk.

About the artist aleksei venetsianov. Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. Handmade in the uk. Trained as forest surveyor.

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