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Caixas lacadas russas - “Palekh Miniature” – épico russo – “Ilja Muromec” – (Ilya from Murom) - papier-mâché
“Ilja Muromec”
Ilya Muromets is a hero of ancient Russian epics, one of the three great bogatyrs (along with Alyosha Popovich and Dobrynya Nikitich) who embody the image of a warrior hero. He is the protagonist of no less than 15 epics ("Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber," "Ilya Muromets and the Idolishche Poganoe," "The Quarrel of Ilya Muromets with Prince Vladimir," and others). Ilya Muromets is one of the most popular images in Russian culture. He has been embodied in painting (Vasnetsov, Bilibin, Vereshchagin), literature (A.K. Tolstoy, Akunin), modern folklore (anecdotes), music (opera, symphony, rock music), films, cartoons, and computer games. A number of vehicles, technical devices, and geographical features have been named after Ilya Muromets.

Dimensions: 150mm x 110 mm x 35 mm
Work artisan Михеева (Cyrillic) perfect condition
at the bottom -left in the Russian plot in Cyrillic –
right signature of the master
Will be shipped registered and packaged carefully.

Palekh since the pre-Petrine times was famous for its icon painters. The greatest flourishing of Palekh iconography reached the XVIII - early XIX century. Local style was formed under the influence of Moscow, Novgorod, Stroganov and Yaroslavl schools. In addition to icon painting, the Paleshans were engaged in monumental painting, participating in the painting and restoration of churches and cathedrals, including the Faceted Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin, the temples of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the Novodevichy Monastery.

After the revolution of 1917 the painters of Palekh were forced to look for new forms of realizing their creative potential. In 1918 the artists created the Palekh Artistic Decorative Artel, which was engaged in painting on wood. The ancestors of the Palekh style are Ivan Golikov and Alexander Glazunov, in whose Moscow workshop Ivan Golikov wrote the first work in the so-called Palekh style. The Palesans got acquainted with the new material papier-mache, which for a century was the basis for the lacquer miniature Fedoskina. The masters mastered the new material, transferring to it the traditional for the ancient Russian icon-painting technology and conventional image stylistics. For the first time Palekh miniatures on papier-mache made at the request of the Handicraft Museum were presented at the All-Russian Agricultural and Artisanal Exhibition in 1923, where they were awarded diplomas of the 2 nd degree.

On December 5, 1924, the seven Palekh artists Ivan Golikov, Ivan Markichev, Ivan Bakanov, Ivan Zubkov, Alexander Zubkov, Alexander Kotukhin, and VV Kotukhin united in the Artel of Ancient Painting. Later they were joined by artists Ivan Vakurov, Dmitry Butorin, Nikolai Zinoviev. In 1925 Palekh miniatures were exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris.
Typical plots of Palekh miniatures are borrowed from everyday life, literary works of classics, fairy tales, epics and songs. A number of compositions are based on the traditions of classical art [1]. Works are usually performed with tempera paints on a black background and painted with