Abstract
In the article the author compares S.H. Bulgakov’s idea of the last days of our world’s history and the apocalyptic frame of mind of the artist Nikolai Ge and Andrei Rublev. The author analyzes three paintings by Nikolai Ge: “Gospel Reading”, “The Last Supper” and “Conscience”. He comes to the conclusion that Christ’s human nature in Ge’s painting suffered the defeat when facing Judas. If in Ivanov’s painting “The Appearance of Christ Before the People” the story only starts, in Ge’s pictures, according to the article author, Christ is shown in the situation when everything has already happened to him and he is facing the night of the world. We find in the article the comparison of the Russian understanding of the end of history and the apocalyptic views of Pieter Bruegel and Heronymus Bosch.
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