On The Bridge Kalinovoye — Konstantin Alexejewitsch Wassiljew

On the bridge Kalinovoye

Explore Konstantin Vasilyev’s ‘On the Bridge Kalinovoye,’ a dramatic 1608 oil painting depicting a knight vs. dragon! Discover its romantic style, Symbolist themes & classical heroism.


Konstantin Alexejewitsch Wassiljew (1942 - 1976)

Entdecken Sie Konstantin Wassiljews eindringliche symbolistische Gemälde russischer Epen & Folklore. Erforschen Sie 'Fürst Igor' und weitere ikonische Werke dieses russischen Künstlers des 20. Jahrhunderts.

"The painting, unfinished at El Greco's death and listed in a postmortem inventory, depicts a passage in Revelation (6:9–11) describing the opening of the Fifth Seal and the distribution of white robes to ""those who had been slain for the work of God and for the witness they had borne."" It is cut down from a large altarpiece commissioned in 1608 for the church of the hospital of Saint John the Baptist in Toledo. The missing upper part may have shown the Sacrificial Lamb opening the Fifth Seal."