The Threshing Floor By Aleksei Venetsianov

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The threshing floor by aleksei venetsianov.

Buy online at discount prices. The threshing floor posters canvas prints framed pictures postcards more by aleksei gavrilovich venetsianov. Threshing floor was created in 1822 by alexey venetsianov in realism style. 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.

Handmade in the uk. Handmade in the uk. Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. Although the imperial academy of arts was founded in st petersburg in 1757 pre dating the royal academy in london by 11 years to train native artists its largely french and german professors taught a classical western european tradition that was ultimately designed to produce bombastic history or religious paintings and stately portraits.

Trained as forest surveyor. Copied paintings at hermitage. Exact matches only. 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. After this threshing process the broken stalks and grain were collected. About the artist aleksei venetsianov. Russia was late in getting its own national art.

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