HIS 242
Unit 3: A Silver Age of Russian Culture

Bakst

An illustration of the Firebird costume designed by Lev Bakst (Lev Rosenberg, 1866-1924), one of the primary stage designers for the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929). Bakst begin painting in the 1890s and became associated with the Mir iskusstva (World of Art) art movement in Russia where he worked on the path-breaking journal for the movement. He was an absolute brilliant illustrator and one of the key figures in the Russian "Silver Age."

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