Novodevichy Convent

Author: Kitaev V.S.
Year of publication: 1980
Size (WxH): 49x32.5 cm
Price: 51000 ₽

A Soviet-era linocut. The Novodevichy Convent of the Virgin and Smolensk is a Russian Orthodox convent in the city of Moscow, which stands on Devichy Polye in the bend of the Moscow River, very close to the Luzhniki. The artistic depiction of the Novodevichy Convent perfectly captures the visual appearance of the monastery and its surroundings. It would be perfect for Soviet era entourage for film shoots, theatre set designs, as a gift for a collector or a lover of objects from the 70s. Vintage Soviet linocut. Monasteries attracted artists and painters were interested not only in the interior of monastic life, but also in the aesthetics, admiring the architecture of churches and trying to preserve and convey their impressions to contemporaries and posterity through artistic reproduction. Thanks to this, we can plunge into the world, disappearing in the flow of time. Novodevichy monastery.