Modern Russian Art
"OFF TO THE WAR BY SAVITSKY
much improvement when, after the foundation ot diplomas and arrayed in Academical uniform,
the Academy of Arts in 1757, these foreign imitators Russian art now descended to earth, ready made."
of Guido, Reni and Lebrun found themselves driven It is impossible to understand nowadays the
out by a " parasitic" school of native copyists, indiscriminate admiration lavished *upon Brulov's
" Like a new Minerva," says Muther, "armed with colossal painting The Last Davs of Pompeii (1831),
" FOUND DROWNED : A VILLAGE SCENE
BY DMITKIEV-ORENBORGSKY
"OFF TO THE WAR BY SAVITSKY
much improvement when, after the foundation ot diplomas and arrayed in Academical uniform,
the Academy of Arts in 1757, these foreign imitators Russian art now descended to earth, ready made."
of Guido, Reni and Lebrun found themselves driven It is impossible to understand nowadays the
out by a " parasitic" school of native copyists, indiscriminate admiration lavished *upon Brulov's
" Like a new Minerva," says Muther, "armed with colossal painting The Last Davs of Pompeii (1831),
" FOUND DROWNED : A VILLAGE SCENE
BY DMITKIEV-ORENBORGSKY