# Koru-Kalevala: opening vignette [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GALLEN-KALLELA, Akseli]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: India ink on paper, 65 x 100 mm ## Commentary In the 1920s, Gallen-Kallela worked on two major projects, the vault frescoes of the National Museum in Helsinki \(1927-28\) and the illustrations for a deluxe edition of the Kalevala \(Suur-Kalevala\). The latter project was never completed, but a simpler version with black-and-white vignettes \(Koru-Kalevala\) was published in Porvoo in 1922. The Illustrated Kalevala \(Koru-Kalevala\) was published in 1922 as Akseli Gallen-Kallela's preliminary work to Suur-Kalevala, the Great Kalevala. The book is illustrated with opening and ending vignettes by Gallen-Kallela. This drawing shows the opening vignette to Poem XII from Koru-Kalevala. ## Related artworks - [Aino Myth \(triptych\)]() - [Aino Myth \(triptych\)]() - [Boy with a Crow]() - [Buffet]() - [Démasquée]() - [Finland Awake!]() - [Flame carpet]() - [Forging of Sampo]() - [Forging of the Sampo]() - [Gallen-Kallela Museum: exterior view]() - [Gallen-Kallela Museum: interior]() - [In the Sauna]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()