Constantine Gedal is a Russian artist who uses drawing, painting and photography. But this is in this last discipline he offers the best of his talent.
Born
in the snows of no-man’s land, Constantine liked to spend hours looking
into the ice, that’s how some say he’s got his name (meaning stable,
permanent) though others suggest that he was just a schizophrenic.
Fleeing Tartar-Mongol invasion, Gedal moved to Europe, where he became
good friends with Savonarola, with the later he went to the Holy Land.
Though Savonarola was sent right away, Constantine was allowed to stay
for a while to learn local traditions and languages.
Having
heard of the preparations of the new crusade he departed for Koeln to
arrive there a month too late to prevent a campaign that later proved to
be disastrous.
But
his journey was not all in vain. In the Northern Europe, he got
involved in an art movement that was to become known as Flemish Art.
During that time he was a regular guest at Van Eyck’s and Van der
Goes’s.
Later Gedal frequented Bruegel with whose son he used to have bitter misunderstanding over a neighbor-girl.
As
the Renaissance was late to come to the northern parts of Europe, it
mainly passed Gedal, however few works of the Italian masters seen by
him were highly appraised.
Having learned about the New World he sailed west and settled on shores of the Western Indies.
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