Apollinary Vasnetsov

Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov ( _ru. Аполлинарий Михайлович Васнецов) (July 25 (N.S. August 6), 1856, the village of Riabovo, Vyatka province - January 23, 1933, Moscow) was a Russian painter and graphic artist whose elder brother was the more famous Viktor Vasnetsov. He specialized in scenes from the medieval history of Moscow.

Vasnetsov was a painter and a graphic artist. He did not receive a formal artistic education. He studied under his older brother Viktor Vasnetsov, the famous Russian painter. From 1883, he and his brother lived and worked in Abramtsevo where he fell under the influence of Vasily Polenov. In 1898–1899, he traveled across Europe. In addition to epic landscapes of Russian nature, Apollinary Vasnetsov created his own genre of historical landscape reconstruction on the basis of historical and archaeological data. His paintings present a visual picture of medieval Moscow. He was a member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki) from 1899, and an academician from 1900. He became one of the founders and supervisors of the Union of Russian Artists.

In the beginning of 1920 Committee of Archeology (the predesseror of the Community of Saving of Art Monuments) invited Apollinary Vasnetsov and some other painters (among them was Vikentii Trofimov) to draw old places of Voronezh.

A minor planet 3586 Vasnetsov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after Viktor Vasnetsov and Apollinary Vasnetsov. [cite book | last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. | coauthors = | title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names | pages = p. 301 | edition = 5th | year = 2003 | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | url = http://books.google.com/books?q=3575+Anyuta | id = ISBN 3540002383]

Bibliography

*"Apollinary Vasnetsov" by Vasnetsova, Yekaterina & Schmidt, Igor (eds.) Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1980, (Russian/English) Book ID V 1121 31

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* [http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Horizons/En/bio-505.html Short biography 1]
* [http://www.artfact.com/features/viewArtist.cfm?artistRef=1QFQKYMCYG Short biography 2]