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    Christ in the Desert - Wikipedia

    • Christ in the Desert or Christ in the Wilderness (Russian: Христос в пустыне, romanized: Khristos v pustyne) is an 1872 painting by Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi, reflecting the temptation of Christ. Kramskoi was offered a professorship for the painting by the Russian Academy of Arts Council but rejected it in the beginning of 1873. He had bee… See more

    History

    The theme of Christ's temptation had attracted Kramskoi already in the early 1860s. In that period he made the first sketch of the composition. The first version of Christ in the Desert is dated to 1867, but turned out t… See more

    The painting

    Christ in the Desert is one of Kramskoi's Jesus-themed paintings, the other being Rejoice, King of the Jews and Herodias. Kramskoi used primarily cold colours to reflect the chill dawn in the background. The though… See more