Vasiliy Polenov. On the Genisaret (Tiberias) Lake. The description of the picture. Masterpieces of Russian painting

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Vasiliy Polenov. On the Genisaret (Tiberias) Lake.
The description of a picture. Masterpieces of Russian painting

                                     Tanais Gallery

Василий Поленов.
На Тивериадском (Генисаретском) озере.
Vasiliy Polenov.
On the Genisaret (Tiberias) Lake.

Vasiliy Polenov. On the Genisaret (Tiberias) Lake.
1888. Oil on canvas. 79 x 158.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
From the series «The Life of Christ».

The Genisaret (Tiberias) Lake.
1880s. Oil on canvas. The Yaroslavl art museum.

Starting to work over series pictures «From a life of the Christ» (1890 - 1900) the artist wrote the beginning about a problem of creation of an image of the Christ facing to it: «the Difficult problem before me — excessive, but I not in a condition to refuse it, too I am captured by greatness of this person and beauty of a narration about it... In evangelical legends the Christ is the present live person, or the son human as he himself named, and on greatness of spirit the Son Divine as it named others, therefore business in that and in art to give this live image what it was actually».

In following for Christ and the sinner to the picture which has entered into a cycle «From a life of the Christ» – «On the Genisaret (Tiberias) Lake», — it has stopped on that shape of the Christ which has been found by it in the previous picture.

The Sea of Galilee, also Lake of Gennesaret (Genisaret), Lake Kinneret, Sea of Tiberias or Tiberias Lake (Hebrew: ?? ?????, Arabic: ????? ??????), located near the Golan Heights, is the largest freshwater lake in Israel, and it is approximately 53 km (33 miles) in circumference, about 21 km (13 miles) long, and 13 km (8 miles) wide. The lake has a total area of 166 km?, and a maximum depth of approximately 43 m (141 feet). At 209 metres below sea level, it is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea, a saltwater lake).

The Kinneret is situated deep in the Jordan Great Rift Valley, the valley caused by the separation of the African and Arabian Plates and is fed partly by underground springs although its main source is the Jordan River which flows through it from north to south. Consequently the area is subject to earthquakes and, in the past, volcanic activity. This is evident by the abundant basalt and other igneous rocks that define the geology of the Galilee region.

The lake often appears on maps and in the New Testament as Sea of Galilee or Sea of Tiberias (John 6:1) while in the Hebrew Bible, it is called the "Sea of Chinnereth" (or spelled as "Kinnereth") (Numbers 34:11; Joshua 13:27).

The name may originate from the Hebrew word kinnor ("harp" or "lyre") in view of the shape of the lake. Christian religious texts call it Lake of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1) or Sea of Gennesaret after a small fertile plain that lies on its western side. The Arabic name for the lake is Buhairet Tabariyya (????? ?????) meaning Lake Tiberias. Other names for the Sea of Galilee are Ginnosar, Lake of Gennesar, Sea of Chinneroth and Sea of Tiberias (Roman).

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