The image of a boat as iconographic and metaphoric object in the painting of the middle and the second part of the 19th century
Journal: Academia
Year: 2023

The article focuses on images of a boat in Russian and Western painting, especially Realism and Impressionism art. These trends were used by many painters whose creative activities are ready for academic research now. Exploring works by these masters one can compose a kind of visual series in order to demonstrate Realists’ and Impressionists’ enthusiasm for boat imagery. Among the former there are mentioned A. Bogoliubov, I. Aivazovskii, I. Levitan, K. Korovin, and others. Among French painters