Pyotr Vereshchagin painted Moscow. View of the Kremlin from Sofiyskaya Embankment in 1879 showing the renovated Kremlin as seen from the Kamenny (‘Stone’) Bridge. The Moskva river embankment had been recently reconstructed, and the Great Kremlin Palace erected. The new Kremlin ensemble was designed by Konstantin Ton with fire-resistive cast iron and steel structures.
Vereshchagin painted a real-life view of the city using academic art techniques. He painstakingly reproduced architectural proportions and applied the law of perspective: the farther the object from the viewer, the smaller it appears. For distant objects, the dimensions had to be calculated with high precision.
Vereshchagin painted a real-life view of the city using academic art techniques. He painstakingly reproduced architectural proportions and applied the law of perspective: the farther the object from the viewer, the smaller it appears. For distant objects, the dimensions had to be calculated with high precision.