Quote of the day
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.
Isaac Levitan
Born: August 30, 1860
Died: August 4, 1900 (aged 39)
Bio: Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape."
Known for:
- Autumn day. Sokolniki (1879)
- Golden Autumn (1895)
- Autumn. Road in a Village (1877)
- Village in Winter (1877)
- Above the Eternal Peace







