Christ in the Desert
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Christ in the Desert or Christ in the Wilderness is an 1872 painting by Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi, reflecting the temptation of Christ. Kramskoi was offered a professorship for the painting by the
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Jesus' clasped hands as pictured in the painting
Tretyakov Gallery
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The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.
Christ in the Desert
…youthful commitment to independence from the Academy". Subsequently, it became one of the favourite paintings of Pavel Tretyakov, who bought it for his gallery in the year the painting was finished. The theme of Christ's temptation had attracted Kramskoi already in the early 1860s. In that period he made the…
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