Nymphodora Semenovna Semyonova, the sister of the famous actress ES Semenova, began her stage career as a dramatic actress in the role of an engineer, but the main field of

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

Female images created by OA Kiprensky are an invaluable page in the history of Russian art. They were a revelation even after the masterpieces of FS Rokotov, DG Levitsky, VL

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 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,

Count Sergei Semenovich Uvarov – Minister of Education and President of the Academy of Sciences. The service began in 1801. in the board of foreign affairs, in 1806 he was

This “Roman” portrait, permeated with mild sadness, was written from the former chambermaster of the “small court” of Grand Duchess Ekaterina Pavlovna, whom Kiprensky had already met in Tver. He

On the portrait – Earl Vasily Alekseevich Perovski in the age of 15 years. VA Perovsky was the illegitimate son of Count Alexei Razumovsky, the brother of writer Alexei Perovsky.

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

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

The academic works of Kiprensky, which correspond to the canons of classicism, mostly refer to the time of his studies at the Academy. Already in the first sketches that have

The Kiprensky Academy was described as “one of the best draftsmen of the full-scale class”. “The title” of an excellent draftsman the artist carried through his entire life – five

Thorvaldsen – one of the greatest sculptors, genus. in Copenhagen on November 19, 1770. His father, an Icelander by birth, was a woodcarver and, wishing to have an assistant in

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

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

New tasks required new artistic forms. In contrast to classicism, where the main drawing and contour were, and color and lighting played a secondary role, a complex play of light

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 Dmitry Nikolaevich Sheremetev is the son of Count N. Sheremetev and serf actress, the “prima” of the Sheremetevsky Theater, which played under the name of Praskovia Zhemchugova. SHEREMETEV DMITRIY

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,

At the time of Kiprensky, it was assumed that painters who received a serious academic education should be attracted to religious painting. It seemed to be helped by an equalization

One of the best works of Kiprensky. The artist painted a portrait of a twelve-year-old boy, who is preparing to enter the Corps of Pages. Chelishchev has a great future