Kiprensky Orest
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Young gardener”
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky is a debutant of romantic explorations of Russian painting and a great portrait painter. Constantly in the creative search, he dreamed of writing large-scale works based on historical and mythical stories.
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Venison”
This work was created in difficult times for Kiprensky. The artist, a native of the serfs, always easily found detractors in high society. After returning from Italy, Kiprensky was accused of having killed a
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Anacreon’s Tomb”
Orest Kiprensky is a brilliant Russian artist and a wonderful portrait painter. He was the son of a landowner, who appeared out of wedlock. At birth, the boy was enrolled in a family of
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Newspaper readers in Naples”
The picture in the center shows four young men. The man on the left reads a newspaper sheet aloud, and the others listen to him carefully. Orest Kiprensky called the men depicted on the
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Chelishchev”
This is one of the best paintings of Orest Adamovich Kiprensky. Thanks to this invaluable work, the author of the work founded a romantic current. The masterpiece was created in 1809. A year earlier,
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of V. S. Khvostov” (1814)
The canvas is a traditional chamber portrait, characteristic of the XVIII century. The senator and the writer is shown by a private person – without awards or distinctions, in ordinary clothes. In reading the
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Self-portrait”
Portrait painted in 1828. This painting is able to tell us a lot about the artist. Before us is a man with a strong-willed face. He is dressed in an oriental striped robe. Face
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Alexander Pushkin”
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is deservedly called the Sun of Russian Poetry. And that is exactly how we see it on the portrait of the work of Orestes Kiprensky. This artist had the fame of
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Davydov”
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky painted a portrait of Davydov in 1809, when the war with Napoleon was just beginning. This picture is a reflection of the poetic cult of the brave and strong hero that
Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of Avdulin”
In 1823, the Russian artist Kiprensky completed the work on a portrait of a woman who later became recognized as one of the best in the genre of romanticism. He wrote in Paris to