Ivanov

Role: artist · First appears: PART FIVE · Chapter 11

Life events

• Golenishtchev argues that Ivanov’s Christ raises a theological question that destroys artistic unity.(PART FIVE · Chapter 11)
  • With: Golenishtchev Mihailov
  • “And before the picture of Ivanov the question arises for the believer and the unbeliever alike, ‘Is it God, or is it not God?’ and the unity of the impression is destroyed.”

PART FIVE · Chapter 11

• with Golenishtchev (Golenishtchev discusses and criticizes Ivanov's artistic subject.) “But let us take Ivanov. I imagine that if Christ is brought down to the level of an historical character, it would have been better for Ivanov to select some other historical subject, fresh, untouched.”

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Extracted from the original text of Anna Karenina. Made with Rho MD.