%0 Journal Article
%T Gogol's "The Portrait" and Russian Orthodox Iconography
%A Eliot Stempf
%J Vestnik : The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
%D 2010
%I The School of Russian and Asian Studies
%X Nikolai Gogol's "The Portrait" is a short story about art. First written in 1835 and then significantly revised in 1842, the work explores a central concern in Romantic aesthetics: the role of the artist and his creation. Through a series of ekphrases, i.e. literary representations of visual art, the narrative of "The Portrait" examines the act of representational painting in all of its constituent parts: the psychological condition of the artist, the manner of painting (or its formal qualities), the possible subjects of representation, and, finally, its impact upon the viewer.
%K Gogol
%K portrait
%K old believer
%K schism
%K orthodoxy
%K literature
%U http://www.sras.org/gogol_portrait_russian_orthodox_iconography