
“Look around you — the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are foolish and we don’t understand that...

“Look around you — the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are foolish and we don’t understand that...

Lev Lagorio (1827—1905) worked in the finest tradition of Romantic landscape painting. Influenced by Ivan Aivazovsky, Lagorio’s mastery also lies in his rendition of...

Lev Lagorio's (1826—1905) early artistic development is inexorably linked with his birthplace - the Crimea – and, throughout his life, he would often turn for...

The son of an Italian diplomat, Lev Lagorio (1826—1905) was born in Feodosia, Crimea, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg under M. Vorobiev and B....