Karl Bryullov Biography Book

The first genre paintings and the “last day of Pompeii” 3. I would now paint the sky! Interesting facts about Karl Bryullov and his work of Bryullov are the only Russian artist, awarded a bay wreath and a diamond ring from the emperor’s hands during the life of the emperor. From an early age, his father taught his son of painting, and he was often too strict with him.

Karl Bryullov could not let it go to the dining table until he writes the right number of animals and human figures. For mistakes, they were punished strictly. Later, Bryullov recalled that the ability to “neatly draw” was born to him thanks to children's exercises. Paternal training helped Bryullov - he studied better than his peers. The young artist often corrected the work of his comrades, but the teachers always noticed this and said: “What, brother seems to want to give you a medal in this third of Bryulls?

Art critic Andrei Somov, teachers early allowed Bryullov to write his own canvases, while his peers still copied the teaching pictures. Its first independent work is the watercolor drawing "Genius of Art".

It has become a model for training copying in the field class. Bryullov depicted a young man with a lyre, a rod and the head of the priest Laocon at his feet. The shadows in the picture were treated with coal, and the glare was highlighted by pastel. Soon, in the year, Bryullov wrote his first picturesque picture - "Narcissus, looking into the water." This work brought him a small gold medal.

As a graduation work, Bryullov in the year created an "appearance of Abraham of three angels at Duba Mamvriysky." In the year, Karl Bryullov, together with his brother Alexander, went to Rome. The road to the Italian capital took almost a year. Along the way, they stayed in different cities and studied European painting and culture. There he immediately took up the ceremonial and chamber portraits.

Bryullov wrote with watercolors, oil, worked in the technique of simple drawing and Sepia. In addition to portraits of Bryullov, I tried to write genre paintings. In the year he wrote the Italian Morning and sent it to Russia. The emperor granted Bryullov a diamond ring and instructed to write a pair picture. So the second composition arose - "Italian noon." In Italy, Bryullov met the Russian aristocrat Julia Samoilova.

She was the heiress of the Skavronsky clan, Palen, Litto and Visconti - the richest houses of the Russian Empire and Italy, patronized the Russian and Italian artists. She supported Bryullov, for a long time they were connected by personal relations. Samoilova introduced the artist to many representatives of high society in Rome, from them Bryullov received orders for expensive ceremonial portraits.

By order of Julia Samoilova, he painted the picture “Horseman”, which Italian critics warmly met. In the year, Bryullov began work on one of his large -scale works - “The Last Day of Pompeii”. He visited the ruins of the city of Pompeii, who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 BC. Bryullov worked on his monumental picture for almost six years. In the year, "The Last Day of Pompeii" was exhibited in Rome, in the artist’s workshop.

Many people known in those years came to see the picture, among whom was writer Walter Scott. The Florentine Academy of Arts appropriated the title of a first degree professor for this canvas for this canvas. The picture was exhibited at the Paris salon in the Louvre, after which they sent to St. Petersburg. Emperor Nicholas I, seeing her, suggested Bryullov to return to Russia and invited the artist to a personal meeting for the presentation of a laurel wreath.

Not only representatives of the Russian nobility, but also merchants, large artisans, artisans, could see it. I experienced wonderful moments, writing this picture! And as now I see the venerable old man Kamuccini standing in front of her. A few days after the whole Rome flocked to watch my picture, he came to my workshop [on] Via San Claudio and, standing for a few minutes before the picture, hugged me and said: “Hug me, Colossus!

The work on this large -scale canvas - two by three meters - the artist completed in a record term: in just 17 days. However, the picture dedicated to the favorite of the Portuguese king was met in Europe coldly, and critics called Bryullov a master of “historical jokes”. The artist lived in Italy for 12 years. During this time, he created near portraits of the Italian intelligentsia, as well as artists, sculptors, writers, and the members of the imperial family and the Russian nobility in Italy.

He wrote several self -portraits for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. There he wrote a series of portraits of the rebels, their leader Theodore Kolokotroni, several landscapes. He painted mainly watercolors and sapia. Here, noble Moscow houses arranged evenings and techniques in his honor. You brought peaceful trophies.