Karl Brullov
Subtitle: famous and unknown [catalogue editor-in-chief, Evgenia Petrova ; translator, John Sowerby]
Contributors: Sowerby, John; Gosudarstvennyĭ muzeĭ izobrazitelʹnykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina; Gosudarstvennyĭ russkiĭ muzeĭ (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Publisher: State Russian Museum; Palace Editions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: St. Petersburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9785933324379; 9783863840303
Subjects: Exhibitions; Expositions
Other titles: Famous and unknown
Description: This catalogue of a Russian Museum exhibition raises questions that pertain both to the work of Briullov and to the history of nineteenth-century Russian and Western European art. After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where historical painting and portraiture were primary, Briullov traveled to Italy in the 1820s and came into contact with different artistic priorities: painting from life and an emphasis on rendering everyday reality accurately. The result was a body of work, much of it unknown until recently, so different from what art historians had associated with Briullov's style, that his authorship was doubted. These sketches and drawings, now in a Moscow private collection, are here juxtaposed with well-known works, which reveals much about Briullov's technique and what he learned in Italy. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, from 16 March to 28 May 2012 and at Pushkin Musum of Fine Arts, Moscow, from 26 February to 12 May 2013.