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Scenes alleged murals Vrubel developed in several different ways. «Tombstone crying» (Our Lady of the body of Christ) has four options, different in composition . The first - against the backdrop of the distant landscape: the sky with floating clouds, the disk of the setting sun, silhouettes of poplars. Perhaps the landscape is suggested overlooking the Dnieper, the opening up of Andrew's Cathedral, where the artist lived. The latter landscape background corrected, two figures inscribed in a semicircle, as if in a secluded niche. The third option they have on the background of a large cross. The artist intended to write this composition between the two windows, and the silhouette of the cross at the same time naturally arise. In the fourth, the most complete sketch put more figures of the Apostles on the sides. All four executed watercolor sketch.
Gravestone lament - a frequent subject of paintings in the church since the Middle Ages. It was interpreted in different ways, but primarily as multifigured group (The Virgin and the disciples), with a rough display of grief, weeping, wringing of hands, with gestures of despair. Vrubel prefer them to silence. In all the sketches "Western" than the fourth, has two figures - Mother and son dead. All the pain was concentrated in the mother's eyes full of unshed tears.The mother stared at her son looks like and gives him a dumb question about the mystery of death. Not a word or gesture - nothing, only indistinguishable in Proshan gaze. Seems this is expressed most strongly in the second sketch, where the drama corner lublyaetsya due to the absence of any ACCESS Suar, and both faces are in profile. Beautiful and the third sketch, but it is monochrome, the second is for the vertices in color. Blue gamut - from black-blue, like a thundercloud, a greenish-blue, greenish-blue, are resolved in a white, crossed by transparent blue shadows. Example but the same color scheme in the figure of an angel with a candle and censer. Probably Vrubel conceive the whole painting the church in this vein, color - deep blue to black, turquoise flash and white with shades of air and glazes.