The Threshing Floor By Aleksei Venetsianov

About the artist aleksei venetsianov.

The threshing floor by aleksei venetsianov. There is evidence that he also dealt in pictures and this may have helped awaken the young venetsianov s interest in art. Exact matches only. Russia was late in getting its own national art. Handmade in the uk.

Trained as forest surveyor. After this threshing process the broken stalks and grain were collected. Rosalind polly gray the real and the ideal in the work of aleksei venetsianov russian review vol. With vladimir borovikovsky at st petersburg academy 1802 10.

The threshing floor posters canvas prints framed pictures postcards more by aleksei gavrilovich venetsianov. Information about the painting location other paintings of the artist. Available as prints canvases and cards. 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.

Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. One of the founders of the russian genre painting alexei venetsianov was born into a not particularly well off merchant family in moscow. His father traded in fruit bushes. Buy online at discount prices.

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