Viktor Vasnetsov

Vasnetsov turns Russian folklore and medieval legend into painting — bogatyrs, firebirds and fairy-tale princesses. Look for epic national-romantic subjects, ornament and a storybook grandeur.

Viktor Vasnetsov (1848–1926) was a painter from Russia, associated with Romanticism.

Late-18th to 19th century — emotion, untamed nature, and the sublime valued over reason and order. Romanticism →

More Romanticism painters: Francisco Goya, Eugène Delacroix, J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich.

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