Description of the painting by Dmitry Levitsky “Portrait of A. F. Kokorinov”
Alexander Filippovich Kokorinov – a talented architect of the eighteenth century, one of the designers and the first director of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. The artist Levitsky owes much to
Description of the painting by Dmitry Levitsky “Portrait of Demidov”
Dmitry G. Levitsky, who lived in the time of Catherine II, was a master of the so-called “ceremonial portraits”, where models were depicted in all the splendor of ceremonial clothes and regalia. In such
Description of the painting by Dmitry Levitsky “Portrait of Vorontsova”
The canvas was written in 1783, today it is located in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Levitsky was distinguished by a special approach to the drawing of female silhouettes. He correctly emphasized