Gospel Stories in the Works of V. V. Vereshchagin

Abstract

In the heritage of Russian realists of the second half of the XIX century there is a large group of works on an evangelical plot, solved according to the laws of easel painting, in the principles of historical genre and intended for secular exhibitions. The uniqueness of this phenomenon lies in the fact that artists, in contrast to the previous time, created them not only by order, but also from inner need, on personal initiative. This is the work of N. G. Ge, V. G. Perova, I. N. Kramskoy, V. I. Surikov, I. E. Repin, V. D. Polenova, V. E. Makovsky, G.G. Myasoedova, K.A. Savitsky and, of course, V.V. Vereshchagin.