Painters, the Art Market, and Images of Female Beauty in Russia, 1830-1860 (with Margaret Samu)
This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490. Russian painters of the mid-nineteenth century faced a difficult art market. Even the most talented of them—trained as history painters to produce large-scale canvases of biblical and historical subjects—found little demand for such works from the church or the state after finishing their training. Meanwhile, the number of artists…