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Vasily Vereshchagin

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Vasily Vereshchagin is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: Russian painter, 1842-1904. The record places the death in Lüshun. Getty classifies the person under these roles: authors, watercolorists, draftsmen (artists), illustrators, painters (artists). The nationality terms attached to the record are Russian. Places of professional activity in the record include Deutschland, Paris, Moskva. The record carries 43 forms of the name and the identifier 500002450. In this atlas the person is linked as the creator of The Apotheosis of War and Blowing from Guns in British India.

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Vasily Vereshchagin
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Source Getty ULAN artist record 500002450, Vereshchagin, Vasily

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Source Blowing from Guns in British India (Wikipedia)
Source The Apotheosis of War (Wikipedia)
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Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich (Russian painter, 1842-1904)

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Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
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    Vereshchagin, Vasily Vasilyevich (Russian painter, 1842-1904)
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Vasily Vereshchagin (Wikipedia)
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The graphic nature of his realist scenes led to many of them never being printed or exhibited to the public.
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The Apotheosis of War (Wikipedia)
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The Apotheosis of War (Russian: Апофеоз войны) is an 1871 painting by Russian war artist Vasily Vereshchagin.
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Blowing from Guns in British India (Wikipedia)
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Blowing from Guns in British India, sometimes shortened to Blowing from Guns, was a painting (presumed destroyed) by the Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin.
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