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Get Thee Behind Me, Satan!
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Ilya Repin
Repin’s commanding 1895 canvas depicts Christ’s wilderness temptation, rendered with dramatic realism and psychological intensity. A masterwork of Russian figurative painting held at the State Russian Museum.
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Ilya Repin’s Get Thee Behind Me, Satan! (1895) is one of his most spiritually charged and psychologically compelling works, depicting the biblical moment in which Christ rejects the Devil’s temptations in the wilderness. Standing nearly 2.3 metres tall, the canvas commands attention through its monumental scale and Repin’s masterful command of figurative realism. The composition places a resolute, white-robed Christ at its centre, his gaze resolute and his posture radiating calm authority, while a shadowy, serpentine tempter recoils into the dark recesses of the scene. The contrast between divine composure and demonic menace is rendered with extraordinary psychological depth.
Repin employs a dramatic interplay of light and shadow to heighten the narrative tension, bathing Christ in a luminous clarity that sets him apart from the turbulent, brooding atmosphere surrounding the retreating figure of Satan. The landscape stretches bleakly behind the two figures, emphasising the isolation and spiritual stakes of the confrontation. Every brushstroke reflects Repin’s dedication to expressive, emotionally grounded realism — the hallmark of the Peredvizhniki movement with which he is so closely associated.
This hand-painted oil-on-canvas reproduction is crafted by skilled studio artists who study the original work held at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg to faithfully recreate:
- The precise tonal contrasts between the luminous figure of Christ and the shadowed presence of the tempter
- Repin’s characteristic loose, expressive brushwork in the drapery and landscape
- The full compositional scale and atmospheric depth of the original
- Authentic oil paints on gallery-grade stretched canvas
A powerful addition to any collection of religious or classical figurative art, this reproduction brings one of Repin’s most spiritually resonant canvases into your space with museum-quality fidelity.
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