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Grigory Gagarin
The Nativity of Christ, 1850s
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Petrograd Madonna, 1920
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
The Virgin. Tenderness of the evil hearts, 1914-1915
Pavel Filonov
The Magi, 1914
Pavel Filonov
Adoration of the Magi, 1913
Natalia Goncharova
The Nativity of Christ, 1910
Viktor Vasnetsov
The fragment of mural decoration in Vladimirsky cathedral (Kiev), 1893
Mikhail Nesterov
The Nativity of Christ, 1890-1891
Ilya Repin
The Nativity of Christ, 1890
Alexander Ivanov
Iosif's dream, 1850s
Alexander Ivanov
The Visitation of the shepherds by the Angel, annunciating that the Christ was born, 1850s
Vassily Shebuev
The Nativity of Christ (Adoration of the Magi), 1847
Pyotr Petrovsky
The Angels' Visitation of the shepherds, 1839
Orest Kiprensky
Madonna with the infant Jesus, 1807
Vladimir Borovikovsky
The Nativity of Christ, 1790
Andrei Rublev
The nativity of Christ, icon in the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin, 1405 // Generally, religious painting were neglected in Russia. The genre of religious painting, performed by such European masters as Da Vinci, Rafael or Boticelli, here was monopolized by the church, so that "unclerical" paintings that depicted biblical scenes were totally replaced by the icon painting. Since the very beginning Russian orthodox icon was considered not as a simple image: it was a sacral object and any deviation of canon was not approved. These paintings seem to be rare examples of secular religious painting. Today all of them are devoted to the Nativity of Christ. Merry Christmas!
