The article analyzes Russian animalistic art within a range of other genres. It emphasizes that the animalistic genre, having its own self-sustained value, was historically predetermined and occupies its own niche within the system of the Russian art of the 18th-20th centuries. The author reviews the history of various genres and the place of animalistic art among them and explores the role of the Academy of the Arts in formation of various genres and their signifi cance in society.
Keywords: animalistic genre, hierarchy, depiction of animals, landscape paintings,
Academy of the Arts, “portrait of a horse”, historical genre.
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