Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Christ in the Wilderness - Ivan Kramskoy - Google Cultural Institute.jpg

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Original – Christ in the desert by Ivan Kramskoi
Reason
It is an iconic painting by an important Russian painter. Ivan Kramskoy was a significant figure in the Russian art history - both painter and art theoretician, the intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880, together with   Russian artists like Ilya Repin and Ivan Shishkin.
Articles in which this image appears
Christ in the Desert, Ivan Kramskoi, List of Russian artists, Mark 1, Matthew 4:2
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Ivan Kramskoy

Promoted File:Christ in the Wilderness - Ivan Kramskoy - Google Cultural Institute.jpg --Ṫ Ḧ the joy of the LORDmy strength 11:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]