Pavel Popov was born in 1966 in the city of Perm. In 1994 he entered the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, studied at historical painting workshop led by Professor Glazunov. Pavel is a Member of the Moscow Union of Artists.
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Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. In 1043 Leofric founded and endowed a Benedictine monastery at Coventry. People of Coventry were suffering under her husband’s oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva asked her husband to remit the tolls. Leofric said he would grant her request if she would strip naked and ride through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her long hair. Just one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in one of the most famous instances of voyeurism. In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind. In the end, Godiva’s husband keeps his word and abolishes the onerous taxes.
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Beautiful works of art, bravo!
This is a typical traditional adam&eve painting and actually the least interesting one from popov. His two works “The Expulsion” make a real impact because they are so dramatic….
One shows them wandering through a desolate landscape, Eve behind Adam, her had bowed, her belly pregnant.
The second on has him sitting on the sun scorched earth, holding Eve,and he sends a wail to the sky.
Very moving.
Oops, I missed the two other Popov paintings, they are featured here…sorry for the comment.