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Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
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Abramtsevo: Church of the Savior Ivan the Terrible
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Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.
Architecture: The Built World
Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
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Night view of the Opera House and new business quarter, Oslo, Norway.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
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Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov: Facts & Related Content

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Facts

Born May 15, 1848 • Russia
Died July 23, 1926 (aged 78) • Moscow • Russia
Notable Family Members brother Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov

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Abramtsevo: Church of the Savior
Ivan the Terrible
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Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova
Russian artist
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin
Russian painter
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel
Russian artist
Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
Russian artist
Isaak Ilyich Levitan
Russian painter
Repin, Ilya Yefimovich: Zaporozhye Cossacks
Ilya Yefimovich Repin
Ukrainian-born Russian painter
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
Russian artist
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov
Russian painter
Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov
Russian painter
Aleksey Kondratyevich Savrasov
Russian artist
Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
Russian painter
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez
Spanish painter
Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Flemish artist

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Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.
Architecture: The Built World