International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

"OFF TO TWE WAR

BY SAVtTSKY

much improvement when, after the oundation or
the Academy of Arts in 1757, these foreign imitators
of Guido, Reni and Lebrun found themseives driven
out by a " parasitic" school of native copyists.
"Like a new Minerva," says Muther, "arrned with

dipiomas and arrayed in Academical uniform,
Russian art now descended to earth, ready made."
It is impossible to understand nowadays the
indiscriminate admiration lavished upon Brulov's
coiossal painting Za.sV (1831),



FOUND DROWNED : A VILLAGE SCENE

BY DMITRIEV-ORENBURGSKY