Nostalgia for the Light in several other European countries subsequently, like Poland and Spain, and finally arrived in the USA in select theaters on March 17, 2011. The Atacama Desert in Chile is known for being one of the driest deserts in the world. As a result, scientists and astronomers from around the world travel to the desert and use it as a site to perform their own research. These astronomers are able to look clearly up into the sky and observe the universe that surrounds us to try to understand the origins of the cosmos. Similarly, the lack of humidity not only helps
Christ in the Desert Christ's temptation had attracted Kramskoi already in the early 1860s. In that period he made the first sketch of the composition. The first version of "Christ in the Desert" is dated to 1867, but turned out to be unsuccessful. Kramskoi realized that the choice of vertical format was inappropriate. He opted for the horizontal format and introduced the pallid rocky desert in the background. Kramskoi described the early history of the painting in his letters to writer Vsevolod Garshin. "Christ in the Desert" is one of Kramskoi's Jesus-themed paintings, the other being "Rejoice, King of the Jews" and "Herodias". Kramskoy