Wageman Patty: Russian Fairytales, Folk Tales and Legends
Скачать книгу (размер 1 090 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 215) Аннотация: The Magic Carpet by Russian-born Victor Vasnetsov depicts a man placidly hovering on an oriental rug, flanked by three owls, above an eerie, moonlit landscape. Painted in 1880, it evidences the influence that Russian fairytales (in which magic carpets figure heavily) had on Russian painters and illustrators of the time. These stories were not only, as is often thought, used in traditional crafts…