Gagarin Grigory Grigoryevich – an amateur artist; the son of the Russian envoy in Rome, Prince GI Gagarin. From 1826 he was in the diplomatic service. In the 1820s he

Painter Bryullov found his true vocation in portrait painting, reaching in his portraits and paintings of the highest pictorial class. The heroes of Bryullov’s portraits are almost always attractive. This

The wife of PA Kikin. Torsukova – noble family, dating back to the beginning of the XVII century. Torsukovs served on the city of Orel. Portrait of MA Kikina, paired

Sylvester Fedorovich Shchedrin, the son of the professor of sculpture F. F. Shchedrin, a landscape painter, enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in 1800, was in it a student

Perovsky – a general from the cavalry, Adjutant General. After graduating from the course at Moscow University, he entered the 1811 colonnade in the retinue of His Majesty; in 1812,

Home, from abroad, Bryullov was returning on board the ship Themistocles, under the leadership of Captain Vladimir Kornilov. In this journey, this portrait was painted. Kornilov – an extraordinary personality,

Judith PASTE, an Italian opera singer. Has a unique range of voice – from high soprano to contralto, 2.5 octaves. The singer so perfectly mastered the vocal technique that it

Having written a picture on the theme set by the Academy of Arts, Bryullov received a gold medal. The painting was exhibited at an academic exhibition in 1821. Abraham is

One of the most famous of his works, “The Horsewoman”, Karl Bryullov wrote at the request of the Countess Julia Samoilova in 1832. The name of Samoilov can be considered

Before us is a sample of a custom portrait. The case when K. Bryullov could not refuse the order, and painted the picture without inspiration. Coldly and lifelessly it is

The famous ceremonial portrait of AN Demidov, a brush by Karl Bryullov, was transferred to the Florentine Museum of Pitti by Karageorgievich. This portrait is well known by sketches and

In the summer of 1835 K. Bryullov goes with the historical and artistic expedition of VP Orlov-Davydov to Greece and Turkey for the subsequent illustration of “Travel Notes”, and then

Briullov’s new aspirations for his remarkable incarnation were found in a small portrait of the famous Italian discobolus – Domenico Marini. In the dynamics of the reversal of his figure,

Along with Olenins, the portrait of the Naryshkins deserves special attention. Different in terms of composition and color scheme, they are similar in the generality of tasks that Brullov set

By the beginning of the 1830s, Bryullov occupied one of the leading places in Russian and Western European art. . A new speech by a Russian artist who exhibited at