Kiprensky Orest

The last “sad” period of the life and creative path of the famous master is “Portrait of Prince Fyodor Alexandrovich Golitsin.” The portrait brings to us the face of a

For this large canvas the Council of the Academy of Arts awarded the artist a great gold medal Prince Dimitry Ivanovich ruled Moscow after 1359g. He united the Russian soldiers

The romantic character of Kiprensky was distinguished by great breadth, the “reckless Orestes” did not want to enclose themselves in any rigid framework – both in life and in creativity.

Tomilov Alexey Romanovich, artillery officer, commanded the work on strengthening in Kronstadt. In 1808 he retired, then met with Kiprensky. During the war with the French, he went into the

A well-known philanthropist, director of the St. Petersburg theaters, IA Gagarin, together with the noble patrons in 1821, founded the Society for the Encouragement of Artists in St. Petersburg. The

Count Fedor Vasilyevich Rostopchin is a famous Russian statesman. From the age of 10 he was a member of the Life Guards Regiment of the Preobrazhensky Regiment; in 1792 he

This is the best creation of Kiprensky, a portrait painting, for which he was first known and for which he received the title of academician. The portrait is written in

The hero of this canvas we know more by the caricature image of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. In fact, the graph was not so one-dimensional – that is the

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, the greatest poet and universal genius of German literature, the author of “Faust” and many other works. OA Kiprensky, returning to Russia, communicated in Marienbad with

Portrait of Darya Nikolaevna Khvostova is distinguished by calm and tranquility. Before the viewer, the wife, the mother of the family, is a sweet and charming woman. Details of the

This masterpiece, which stands alone in the work of Kiprensky, is not fully understood until now. We see the name of the French newspaper, which is read by the “readers”,

The “Self-portrait” conveys the emotion of a person who knows the world. Hot dark eyes with curiosity and anticipation peer into an unfamiliar life. In all appearance of the artist,

The thunderstorm of 1812 stirred up the patriotic feelings of the Russian people. Kiprensky, like everyone else, experienced a spiritual upsurge in the war years, taking to heart the vicissitudes

Kiprensky develops his own style, when a clear individuality of a particular person is combined with the typical features of the era – “signs of the times”. Therefore, even in

The portrait was created about a year after the portrait of Alexander Pushkin, at an uneasy time for Kiprensky. Knowing the artist’s experience of this time, one wonders how easily,

In 1798 Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin and Ekaterina Vladimirovna Golitsyna had a daughter, Sofya. Of course, nothing was regretted for her education and upbringing. The huge house of the Apaxins’ spouses

This portrait is painted in Paris. The artist came there in early April 1822, this can be inferred from a letter sent from Paris by his friend, the architect F.

Alexander Semenovich Shishkov is a writer and statesman. Shishkov enrolled in the Naval Cadet Corps, where he was directed by Ilya L. Kutuzov. In 1771, Mr.. Shishkov went to the

Before us is a picturesque portrait of thirty-five-year-old Ekaterina Sergeevna Avdulina, the wife of General AN Avdulin, a wealthy patron, a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists.

Muravyov Nikita Mikhailovich – participant in the Patriotic War of 1812, captain of the General Staff Guards, member of the “Salvation Union”, “Union of Prosperity” and the Northern Society, one

Very interesting portrait of Kiprensky. He wrote on the story of the same name Karamzin. There is also a clear connection with the life of the painter himself. The artist